Reuters | | Posted by Shobhit Gupta
Some 1.1 million folks arrived in Germany from Ukraine in 2022, exceeding the inflow of migrants from the Center East round 2015, Germany’s federal statistical workplace mentioned on Thursday.
Two thirds of the immigrants from Ukraine arrived within the first three months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, between March and Might of final 12 months, it mentioned.
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The info comes days earlier than the one-year anniversary of the invasion on Feb. 24, which led to tens of millions of Ukrainians being displaced.
Excluding those that returned to Ukraine, immigration from Ukraine to Germany to 962,000 in 2022, greater than the whole of 834,000 that got here from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq collectively between 2014 and 2016, it mentioned.
That made Ukrainian residents the second largest overseas inhabitants in Germany after Turkish nationals by October 2022, it mentioned.