Press release No. 271 of 16 July 2019
Internal migration: more arrivals to the new Länder than departures
WIESBADEN – In 2018, the number of people who immigrated to Germany exceeded the number of those who emigrated by roughly 400,000. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that arrivals from abroad totalled 1,585,000 in 2018, while the number of departures to other countries amounted to 1,185,000. There was a slight decrease in net immigration compared with the previous year (2017: 416,000).
