At the end of 2018, there were 394,000 people of Croatian origin living in Germany and at the end of last year, their number increased to 416,000.
Lowest increase in population with migrant background in Germany since 2011
According to the latest statistical data, last year 21.2 million people had a migrant background, representing 26.0% of the population in Germany.
"Based on results of the microcensus, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was a 2.1% increase compared with a year earlier (2018: 20.8 million)."
"A year-on-year comparison shows that it was the lowest percentage increase since 2011. According to the definition used here, a person has a migrant background if he or she or at least one parent did not acquire German citizenship by birth," the German statistical office said.
As many as 52% of people with a migrant background hold German citizenship.
Two thirds of this segment of the population are people whose ancestors are from some other European country. Most of them have ancestors from Turkey and Poland.