Slight increase in the population expected for 2011
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2012-01-13According to estimates of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the population of Germany probably increased slightly for the first time in 2011 after it had declined for eight years in a row. As is expected, more than 81.80 million people lived in Germany at the end of the year, which is an increase of far more than 50,000 compared with the previous year.
Four to five year intervals between siblings’ births in 2010
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2012-01-06In 2010, 307,000 of the total of 680,000 new-borns were either the second or the third child born to their mother. As also reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), their share amounted to 45% of all children born in 2010. Only 5% of the new-borns were a fourth or subsequent child.
Immigration to Germany up 19% in first half of 2011
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2011-12-22In the first half of 2011, 435,000 people immigrated to Germany according to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). That was 68,000 more arrivals than in the first half of 2010 (+19%). In the same period, departures decreased by 6,000 persons. Consequently, net migration substantially increased from 61,000 to 135,000 people (+122%).
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2011-09-20Life expectancy in Germany has risen slightly once again. According to the life table for 2008/2010, it is 77 years and 6 months for newborn boys and 82 years and 7 months for newborn girls.
In 2010, about 187,000 married couples divorced in Germany. As further reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), this means that eleven out of 1,000 existing marriages were dissolved.
Average number of children per woman up to 1.39 in 2010
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2011-08-18The average number of children per woman was 1.39 in 2010. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis ), the total fertility rate was thus somewhat higher than in 2009 (1.36) and almost the same as in 2008 (1.38). A higher value was last recorded for 1990 when it amounted to 1.45.
Parents of one in three newborn children are not married
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2011-08-12An increasing number of children have been born outside marriage in Germany. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the share of births outside marriage in the total of live births has more than doubled in the past 20 years. It increased from 15% in 1990 to some 33% in 2010. That trend was particularly strong at the end of the 1990s, while it has been less pronounced in the recent years. In 2010, the increase in the percentage of births outside marriage on a year earlier was comparatively small (+0.5 percentage points).
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2011-07-12According to provisional results, the population of Germany stood at 81.75 million at the end of 2010, which was a decline of 51,000 compared with the end of 2009 (–0.1%). As also reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the decline in the population was less marked than in 2009 (–210,000) and 2008 (–215,000). Population trends are based, on the one hand, on births and deaths and, on the other, on the balance of immigration and emigration (migration movements). In addition, the relevant calculations include a small number of adjustments.
Slight increase in the number of naturalisations in 2010
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2011-07-07In the course of 2010, just under 101,600 foreigners were naturalised in Germany. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), that was an increase of 5,500 naturalisations on 2009 (+5.7%) and 7,100 on 2008 (+7.5%). Prior to that, that is, since 2000 when the new citizenship law went into force, the number of naturalisations had however shown a decreasing trend. While in 2000, a total of 186,700 people were naturalised, the relevant number declined to 94,500 by 2008.
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2011-06-17In 2010 the number of live births in Germany amounted to 678,000 as reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the basis of provisional results. This was an increase by 13,000 children or 1.9% compared with the corresponding figure for the previous year but it has to be taken into consideration that 2009 has been the year with the lowest number of births to date.
Migrations in 2010: number of people migrating to Germany markedly higher
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2011-05-09As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the basis of provisional results, 798,000 people in-migrated to Germany in 2010. That was an increase by 77,000 compared with the in-migrations of 2009 (+11%). The number of in-migrants was notably higher than in the last five years – finally, between 660,000 and 720,000 people in-migrated every year. In a long-term comparison, however, until 2002 the in-migration to the reunified Germany had persisted on a higher level than in 2010 with more than 800,000 people per year.
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2011-03-31At the end of 2010, a total of about 6.75 million people who only held foreign citizenship were living in Germany. This is reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the basis of data from the Central Register of Foreigners. The figure included citizens from 188 out of the total of 192 member states of the United Nations.
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2011-01-21In 2009, about 185,800 married couples divorced in Germany. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis ), this was a decrease of 3.2% compared with 2008 when 191,900 divorces had been registered. Hence, ten out of every 1,000 marriages were dissolved in 2009, while it had been eleven marriages in 2008 and only seven in 1992.
Slight decline in the population expected for 2010
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2011-01-13According to estimates of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the population of Germany probably declined slightly in 2010. Presumably 81.7 million persons lived in Germany at year-end, that is 0.1 million or 0.1% less than in 2009.
Every 5th woman aged between 41 and 45 years is childless
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2010-12-17At the end of 2009, about every fifth woman between 41 and 45 years of age (cohorts from 1964 to 1968) was childless. As also reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), there is a high probability that those women remain childless although they can still become mothers. Compared with 2008, the share of childless women in each cohort remains practically constant from the age of 42: In 2009 only three out of 1,000 previously childless women of that age became mothers.
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2010-12-02Just under 29 years was the average age of women in Germany in 2009 when they had their first child. As also reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), women in the new Länder were 27 years old when they gave birth to their first child, so that they were almost two years younger than those in the western part of Germany (29 years).
Among the Länder, life expectancy is highest in Baden-Württemberg
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2010-11-18Within Germany, there are considerable differences in the life expectancy of the population of the different Länder . As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the life expectancy of newborn boys differed by 3 years 6 months and that of newborn girls by 2 years 1 month between the Land with the highest and the Land with the lowest life expectancy in the period from 2007 to 2009.
Average number of children per woman slightly down to 1.36 in 2009
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2010-11-12As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the average number of children per woman in Germany was 1.36 in 2009. Hence the total fertility rate was slightly lower than in 2008 (1.38) and in 2007 (1.37). As in the previous years, the average number of births decreased in 2009 among younger women, while it increased among women aged 33 years or over.
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2010-11-04As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), life expectancy in Germany has continued to increase. According to the life table for 2007/2009, it is 77 years and 4 months for newborn boys and 82 years and 6 months for newborn girls. This is the highest level since the first life table for 1871/1881 was calculated in the German Reich. Compared with the previous life table for 2006/2008, the life expectancy of newborn boys increased by two months, that of newborn girls by one month.
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2010-10-01At the end of 2009, 16.9 million of the total of about 81.8 million people living in Germany were 65 years old or over. According to these data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis ), more than every fifth person (20.7%) was of retirement age. The proportion of elderly people in the total population varies considerably across the regions: Accounting for an average of 23.5%, the proportion of elderly people aged 65 years or over was higher in the eastern Länder (excluding Berlin). Sachsen recorded the highest proportion at 24.7%, followed by Sachsen-Anhalt with 24.2%. The western Länder had a lower proportion of elderly people at 20.2%. The lowest proportions were found in the city states of Berlin (19.1%) and Hamburg (19.0%). The highest proportion of elderly people in western Germany was recorded for the Saarland at 22.2%.
