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Press release No. 474 of 12 December 2023 Mortality figures in November 2023 (+1%) around the median of the previous years
88,017 people died in Germany in November 2023, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This corresponds roughly to the 2019 to 2022 median for that month (+1%). An examination of individual calendar weeks …
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Date: December 6, 2023 Migration (internal migration, external migration, total migration) - 2022 (Summary)
day of moving in or out or of changing housing status, old and new place of residence (municipality if the place of residence is in the domestic territory, country if the place of residence is abroad), housing status (main or sole residence), sex, …
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Date: December 6, 2023 Migration (internal migration, external migration, total migration) - 2022
Pursuant to Section 4 of the Population Statistics Act, the following variables are continuously covered for migration
statistics:
- day of moving into the new dwelling or moving out of the old dwelling
- housing status (main or second residence)
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Date: December 5, 2023 Professionals from abroad - stay rates of international students and people with a Blue Card
Demographic change and the increasing skilled labour shortage have an impact on Germany’s economic development. For that reason, international students and university-educated professionals from non-EU countries are a focus of German migration and …
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Press release No. 439 of 14 November 2023 Mortality figures in October 2023 (+1%) around the median of the previous years
83,540 people died in Germany in October 2023, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This corresponds roughly to the 2019 to 2022 median for that month (+1%). An examination of individual calendar weeks …
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Press release No. 403 of 10 October 2023 Mortality figures in September 2023 around the median of the previous years
76,358 people died in Germany in September 2023, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This corresponds roughly to the 2019 to 2022 median for that month (271 more cases). An examination of individual …
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Press release No. 361 of 12 September 2023 Mortality figures in August 2023 (+1%) around the median of the previous years
78,521 people died in Germany in August 2023, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This corresponds roughly to the 2019 to 2022 median for that month (+1%). An examination of individual calendar weeks …
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Date: August 24, 2023 Migration (internal migration, external migration, total migration) - 2021
Pursuant to Section 4 of the Population Statistics Act, the following variables are continuously covered for migration
statistics:
- day of moving into the new dwelling or moving out of the old dwelling
- housing status (main or second residence)
…
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Press release No. 322 of 15 August 2023 Mortality figures in July 2023 around the median of the previous years, at -1%
75,686 people died in Germany in July 2023, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This corresponds roughly to the 2019 to 2022 median for that month (-1%). An examination of individual calendar weeks reveals …
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Press release No. 290 of 21 July 2023 Fertility rate down to 1.46 children per woman in 2022
In 2022, the number of children born in Germany was 738,819. This represented a drop of 56,673, or 7%, compared with 2021, the year with the highest number of births (795,492 newborns) since 1997. Based on final results, the Federal Statistical …
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Press release No. 277 of 11 July 2023 Mortality figures in June 2023 close to the median of the previous years, at +2%
76,630 people died in Germany in June 2023, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This corresponds roughly to the 2019 to 2022 median for that month (+2%). An examination of individual calendar weeks reveals, …
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Press release No. 235 of 20 June 2023 Germany's population grew by 1.3% in 2022
Germany's population grew by 1.3% (+1,122,000 people) in 2022, after a small increase of only 0.1% in the previous year (+82,000 people). A good 84.4 million people were living in Germany at the end of 2022, according to the Federal Statistical …
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Date: June 20, 2023 Population by nationality and sex
Tables on the subject: Population by nationality and sex.
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Press release No. 226 of 14 June 2023 Rate of childlessness has remained constant at 20% for ten years
In 2022, the rate of childlessness in Germany stood at 20%. This rate refers to the share of women who have not borne children in all women aged between 45 and 49 in 2022 (1973-1977 birth cohorts). Based on the results of the 2022 microcensus, the …
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Press release No. 227 of 14 June 2023 Level of births remains low in first quarter of 2023
In 2022, around 739,000 children were born in Germany, according to provisional results. The number of births was therefore 5.6% lower compared with the average for the years 2019 to 2021, and was down 7.1% from 2021, a year marked by a high number …
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Press release No. 225 of 13 June 2023 Death figures in May 2023 4% above the median of previous years
81,114 people died in Germany in May 2023, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This is 4%, or 2,758 cases, above the median of the years 2019 to 2022 for that month. Coinciding with flu waves, death figures …
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Press release No. 191 of 16 May 2023 Mortality figures in April 2023 (+1%) around the median of the previous years
83,503 people died in Germany in April 2023, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This corresponds roughly to the 2019 to 2022 median for that month (+1%). Coinciding with a high incidence of respiratory …
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Press release No. 165 of 27 April 2023 Sharp rise in labour migration in 2022
At the end of 2022, approximately 351,000 people from countries outside the European Union (EU) who had a temporary residence title for employment purposes were registered in Germany in the Central Register of Foreigners (AZR). The Federal …
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Press release No. 158 of 20 April 2023 24.3% of the population had a history of immigration in 2022
In 2022, 20.2 million people with a history of immigration were living in Germany. Based on microcensus results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was an increase of 1.2 million, or 6.5%, compared with the previous year …
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Press release No. 154 of 18 April 2023 Mortality figures in March 2023: 8% above the median of previous years
Approximately 94,000 people died in Germany in March 2023, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This is 8%, or roughly 7,000 cases, above the median of the years 2019 to 2022 for that month. In February …
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Press release No. 125 of 30 March 2023 More than 3 million people seeking protection in Germany at the end of 2022
At the end of 2022, roughly 3.08 million people were registered as seeking protection in the Central Register of Foreigners. The number of registered people seeking protection rose by 1.14 million compared with the previous year, according to the …
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Press release No. 124 of 30 March 2023 Long-term care projection: 1.8 million more people in need of long-term care expected until 2055
The number of people in need of long-term care in Germany will go up by 37% until 2055 just because the population is ageing. Their number will increase from roughly 5.0 million at the end of 2021 to approximately 6.8 million in 2055, according to …
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Press release No. 102 of 14 March 2023 Mortality figures in February 2023 (+2%) around the median of the previous years
82,862 people died in Germany in February 2023, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This corresponds roughly to the 2019 to 2022 median for that month (+2%). At the end of 2022, death figures clearly …
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Press release No. 091 of 9 March 2023 29,455 people recognised as being stateless at the end of 2022
At the end of 2022, 29,455 people were registered as stateless in the Central Register of Foreigners. The number of people registered as stateless in Germany reached an all-time high, according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). The …
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Press release No. N 015 of 7 March 2023 Gender pension gap: retirement income of women almost one third below that of men in 2021
In terms of both their average income and their retirement income, women are worse off than men. According to results of the survey of income and living conditions (EU-SILC) 2021, women aged 65 or over received gross retirement income of 17,814 euros …
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Press release No. 080 of 2 March 2023 17.3% of Germany's population has immigrated since 1950
14.2 million people lived in Germany in 2021 who themselves had immigrated since 1950, according to microcensus results. Immigrants thus accounted for 17.3% of the population. This is reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) as it …
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Press release No. N010 of 16 February 2023 1.1 million arrivals of people from Ukraine in 2022
Since Russia attacked Ukraine on 24 February 2022, millions of people have left the country. Roughly 1.1 million arrivals of people from Ukraine were recorded in Germany in 2022. This is reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the …
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Press release No. 060 of 14 February 2023 Death figures in January 2023 13% above the median of previous years
98,632 people died in Germany in January 2023, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This is 13%, or roughly 11,000 cases, above the median of the years 2019 to 2022 for that month. According to the Weekly …
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Press release No. 034 of 26 January 2023 Microcensus 2023 has started: official survey of 1% of the population
The microcensus 2023 has started. Using a statistical random method, a total of roughly 810,000 people in about 380,000 households and collective living quarters are selected and surveyed from January to December 2023. This is approximately 1% of the …
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Press release No. 026 of 19 January 2023 Population increased to 84.3 million in 2022
According to a first estimate of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), Germany had a minimum of 84.3 million inhabitants at the end of 2022. This was the highest number of inhabitants ever recorded at the end of a year. The population grew by …
