Germany sees ‘spectacular increase’ in immigrants (now 2nd to the US)
Migration into Germany rose more than a third in 2012, as the continent’s strongest economy took in an additional 400,000 people, mainly from central, eastern and southern Europe.
The data will add to the debate over the extent of immigration in Europe, with rightwing and populist parties across the continent likely to exploit unease among some Europeans about the issue to make big gains in this week’s European parliamentary elections.
The latest rise means Germany has overtaken Spain as the industrialised nation receiving the second largest number of migrants. The US remains the largest recipient of migrants, although the pace of increase there has flattened. Since 2007, the number of US immigrants has actually fallen 3 per cent.
Overall, the number of migrants across the 33 OECD members, which represent the largest economies, is a third higher since the pace of cross-border movement began to pick up in 2000. But it is still 14 per cent lower than in 2007, the year before the global recession set in.
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Foreign-born are now about 13% of Germany's population, almost exactly the same percentage as the US.
34% of Germany's immigrants are "highly educated". In the US it is 21% and in Canada 31%.
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