BERLIN — Some 18.9 million individuals, or 23% of Germany’s inhabitants, both immigrated to the nation since 1950 or are the youngsters of immigrants, Germany’s Federal Statistics Workplace stated Thursday.

It is the primary time the statistics workplace has analyzed the nation’s inhabitants primarily based on migration figures and never simply on citizenship, which is a extra imprecise idea since many immigrants — and particularly the youngsters of immigrants — have taken on German citizenship in recent times.

In terms of the 17.3% who’re first-generation immigrants, Germany ranks above the European Union common of 10.6%, the German information company dpa reported.

As well as, one other 3.7 million, or 4.5% of the inhabitants, have one guardian who immigrated and one ethnic German guardian.

The newly introduced figures are from 2021 and subsequently don’t embody the greater than 1 million Ukrainians who got here to Germany searching for shelter after Russia invaded their dwelling nation a yr in the past.