Foreigner numbers by state in Germany 2023

This statistic shows the number of foreigners in Germany according to the Central Register of Foreign Nationals in 2023, by state. In 2023, North-Rhine-Westphalia had the most foreign nationals at over 3.2 million, followed by Bavaria with almost 2.4 million and Baden-Württemberg with around 2.2 million. Foreigners are those who are not German based on Article 116, Paragraph 1 of the German constitution. These include stateless persons and those with unclear citizenship as well as the population group with a migration background. Individuals with a migration background can either have immigrated into Germany or been born in the country to at least one parent who was born a foreigner.

Number of foreigners in German federal states accordig to the Central Register of Foreign Nationals in 2023

Characteristic	Number of foreigners
North Rhine-Westphalia	3,232,720
Bavaria	2,364,850
Baden-Württemberg	2,168,475
Hesse	1,335,380
Lower Saxony	1,085,315
Berlin	1,000,115
Rhineland-Palatinate	618,370
Hamburg	376,910
Saxony	351,525
Schleswig-Holstein	346,690
Brandenburg	209,780
Saxony-Anhalt	181,370
Thuringia	180,850
Saarland	160,665
Bremen	159,000
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	123,855

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Release date

May 2024

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Germany

Survey time period

December 31, 2023

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According to the Central Register of Foreign Nationals

Supplementary notes

Foreign population based on the Central Register of Foreign Nationals as of December 31, 2023.

Based on the Central Register of Foreign Nationals, statistics on foreigners were rounded up to the nearest multiple of 5, due to demands for statistical privacy and personal data protection in population statistics publications.

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