In 2022, more than a million foreigners (inclusive expats) lived in each of the five different German federal states.
Two of those five federal states had more than 2 million foreign citizens each and one had more than 3 million.
Foreigners in Germany 2022 by Federal States
In the first place is North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen ili NRW) with 3 139 895 foreigners (inclusive expats), while the second one is Bavaria (Bayern) with its 2 293 085 foreigners.
Number of Foreigners by German Federal States in 2022
Foreigners in Germany are people who do not have German citizenship (Article 116 paragraph 1 Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany).
The number of foreigners (inclusive expats) by federal states in Germany can be found in the table below.
| Place | German Federal State | Number of Foreign Citizens |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen) | 3 139 895 |
| 2 | Bavaria (Bayern) | 2 293 085 |
| 3 | Baden-Württemberg | 2 089 960 |
| 4 | Hesse (Hessen) | 1 290 565 |
| 5 | Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) | 1 045 140 |
| 6 | Berlin | 949 375 |
| 7 | Rheinland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) | 599 755 |
| 8 | Hamburg | 367 335 |
| 9 | Schleswig-Holstein | 331 105 |
| 10 | Saxony (Sachsen) | 322 230 |
| 11 | Brandeburg | 196 170 |
| 12 | Bremen | 154 915 |
| 13 | Saarland | 153 455 |
| 14 | Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt) | 169 220 |
| 15 | Thuringia (Thüringen) | 165 840 |
| 16 | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 115 865 |
| Germany Total | 13 383 910 |
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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