Germany

Demographics

Arrivals

Data source: First-time asylum applicants (Statistica)

As of June 2021, Germany is host to 1.2 million displaced persons. (UNHCR)

Diversity Contribution

*Data source: Destatis.de

Top Newcomer Languages Spoken

Arabic
Turkish
Kurdish
Pashto
Dari
Farsi

30%

Speak Host Country's Language

Five years on, the integration of [the refugee] population is impressive. By December 2018, there were 1.8 million people with a refugee background in Germany (including beneficiaries of international protection, asylum seekers, and those who had their request rejected). 75 percent are younger than 40, and most have higher levels of education than other migrants. Today, about half have found a job, paid training, or internship. On arrival, only about one percent declared having good or very good German language skills. By 2018, that figure had increased to 44 percent. Such contributions are badly needed within an aging German labor market, which is facing skill shortages and needs trained migrant labor. (Source: Center for Global Development Five Years Later, One Million Refugees Are Thriving in Germany)

ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTIONS

Top 4 Fields of Labor*

High Skilled Labor - Doctors, Engineers, Scientists

29%

Temporary and Service Industry

38%

Untrained Home Assistants

Vocational Training

26%

*Shown as a % of immigrants in the field of labor.

**Data sources: DW Akademie Refugee Job Market; World Economic Forum 2020

80%

Employers Satisfied With Refugee Employees

*Data sources: Finding Their Way - Germany Report; Infomigrants - 2020 success

SOCIO-FAMILIAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Unaccompanied Children Sponsored by the State

Data source: Statistica

11,129

Visas Issued to Reunite Families

COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION CONTRIBUTION

38,300

Refugees in Vocational Programs

*Data source: WENR World Education News Review

50,000

Refugees Qualified to Attend University

8,618

Syrians Attending German Universities

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Berit Green

Community Liaison, Germany

Berit has a B.S. in Public Health and a B.A. in French. She and her family recently moved from Arlington, Virginia to a small community in Germany. Berit landed her first job in DC with the Ethiopian Community Development Council, as a resettlement caseworker focused specifically on employment. She also spent a lot of time interviewing and working with refugees to learn and spread their inspiring and important stories. She then worked for USAID in the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance before deciding to stay home with her daughter and now teaches French for an online high school, and spends most of her time with her growing family.