More than a million foreigners (expats inclusive) lived in each of the four different German federal states in 2021.
Two of those four federal states had more than 2 million foreign citizens each.
Foreigners in Germany 2021 by Federal States
In the first place is North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen ili NRW) with 2 815 800 foreigners, while the second one is Bavaria (Bayern) with its 2 051 505 foreigners.
Number of Foreigners by German Federal States in 2021
The number of foreigners by each federal state in Germany can be found in the table below.
| Place | German Federal State | Number of Foreign Citizens |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen) | 2 815 800 |
| 2 | Bavaria (Bayern) | 2 051 505 |
| 3 | Baden-Württemberg | 1 885 925 |
| 4 | Hesse (Hessen) | 1 163 800 |
| 5 | Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) | 895 490 |
| 6 | Berlin | 848 400 |
| 7 | Rheinland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) | 532 230 |
| 8 | Hamburg | 328 375 |
| 9 | Schleswig-Holstein | 286 270 |
| 10 | Saxony (Sachsen) | 244 415 |
| 11 | Brandeburg | 149 540 |
| 12 | Bremen | 140 330 |
| 13 | Saarland | 134 350 |
| 14 | Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt) | 127 670 |
| 15 | Thuringia (Thüringen) | 126 270 |
| 16 | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 87 410 |
| Germany Total | 11 817 790 |
Note: Since 2016, based on the German Central Register of Foreign Nationals (Ausländerzentralregister – AZR), statistics on foreigners were rounded up to the nearest multiple of number 5, due to demands for statistical privacy and personal data protection in population statistics publications.
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