Net immigration to Germany fell by 40 percent last year

Now a dramatic fall in immigration means the country’s total population shrank in 2025 for the first time in years. The headline figure is clear: net immigration to Germany in 2025 was at least 40 percent lower than in the previous year. For the whole of 2025, net immigration is estimated at between 220,000 and 260,000 people – down from 430,183 in 2024. This is the lowest level since the coronavirus pandemic year of 2020, when net immigration was 220,251. Then, net migration fell from around 663,000 to 430,000 – a drop of about 35 percent.