Press release No. N 011 of 1 March 2022
- 1.3% of the foreign population in Germany held Ukrainian citizenship and 2.2% Russian citizenship in 2020
WIESBADEN - Roughly 10.6 million foreigners were living in Germany at the end of 2020. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that slightly more than one in ten people (12.7%) living in Germany had no German citizenship on reference day 31 December 2020. Turkish people accounted for the largest group (1.3 million people; 12.4%) of the total foreign population. They were followed by Syrian (787,000; 7.4%) and Polish citizens (774,000, 7.3%).
The just over 235,000 Russians (2.2%) living here ranked ninth on the list of the foreign population. Slightly more than one in one hundred people with foreign citizenship were Ukrainians (1.3%). On the whole, 135,000 Ukrainian citizens were living in Germany at the end of 2020.
