I was sitting and watching ARD (German public TV, Channel One) this morning, and this short news piece comes up.
The German Federal Statistics Office came to announce that 19 million folks who reside in Germany (out of 82-million).....are non-German (meaning that they weren't born here).
That's up by four-percent over 2017.
Chief countries represented? Turkey (around 2.8-million) and Poland (2.1-million). After that comes Kazakh (1.2-million) and Russian (1.4-million).
A multicultural nation? Absolutely. No one today would deny that. The trend line with the four-percent growth.....to continue? I would generally expect a three-to-four percent growth pattern to continue for the next decade. Part of the issue is simply a lack of German births, and declining population for jobs (industry, healthcare, etc). If you go and do the trend-line and figure 25-million non-Germans? I would suggest by 2030, it'll easily reach that level.
I'll even go as far to suggest that a Turkish-stance German political party is very likely to occur in the next four years. And you might even see some creation of a Kazakh/Russian German political party by 2025.
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