Germany's population grew by 1.12 million, or 1.3 percent, to 84.4 million in 2022, after a meager 0.1 percent increase the year before. It was the largest annual surge in population numbers since the country's reunification over three decades ago, primarily attributed to a notable influx of 1.46 million individuals through net immigration mainly caused by the refugee movements from Ukraine. This represented a significant increase compared to the 329 thousand recorded in 2021. Similar to previous years, the number of deaths exceeded the number of births in 2022. The disparity between deaths and births further widened to 327 thousand, compared to 228 thousand in 2021. The regions that saw the largest population increases were North Rhine-Westphalia (up 214.5 thousand), Bayern (up 192.4 thousand), and Baden-Württemberg (up 155.6 thousand). Looking back, in the year of 1950, Germany had a population of 51.0 million people. This page provides the latest reported value for - Germany Population - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.
Because we took in > 1million Ukrainian refugees. It’s actually a sad occurrence that our population grew, because those people were driven out of their country.
I guess this explains some of the waiting times in Ausländerbehörden and is hopefully a kick in the pants to make the whole system more efficient. I’m very glad I had help getting through it.
