Wiesbaden (dpa/lsw) - No other federal state lost as many residents to other federal states in the past year as Baden-Württemberg. When looking at emigration and immigration to other countries, the federal state had around 12,000 fewer inhabitants at the end of 2021, as the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden announced on Tuesday.
The city-states of Hamburg and Berlin lost around 9,300 similar numbers of residents to other countries. Brandenburg was one of the winners of the inner-German moves with a migration surplus of 17,000. Schleswig-Holstein (13,000) as well as Lower Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (7,000 each) also gained significantly.
Around 11.1 million people lived in Baden-Württemberg at the end of 2021. Despite the emigration within Germany, the population in the south-west has increased overall due to immigration from abroad.
Within Germany, 1.06 million hikes across federal state borders were registered last year. This was three percent more than in the previous year.
