The death toll in Germany is at a new high since World War II, what happened to the population
Headline Creation Challenge In 2022, the death toll in Germany reached 10590,000, the highest since 1946. If effective measures are not taken, this trend could break through the 1945 peak in the coming years, which is a matter of deep concern.
Germany, an area of 35With 760,000 square kilometers, the country ranking fourth in the European Union and seventh in Europe can be ranked ninth if it is ranked according to China's provincial-level administrative regions.
With a population of around 84.1 million (2022), this large European country is the largest in the European Union and the largest in terms of total GDP. On a European scale, Germany not only ranks first in terms of total GDP, but also has the second largest population after Russia.
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and other countries are countries in Europe where Germanic people are the main people and German is the official language, and at the same time, some people in Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland and other places also speak German, and Germanic people are a powerful force in Europe.
However, in recent years, Germany's demographic problem has become increasingly serious.
Over the past 100 years, the number of annual deaths in Germany has remained relatively stable, rarely exceeding 1 million. However, between 1939 and 1945, this figure changed significantly.
During this period, the number of deaths in Germany per year was 8540,000, 8860,000, 8440,000, 8480,000, 8530,000, 9150,000, 1,210,000 and 10010 thousand.
It was not until the last year of World War II that the death toll in Germany exceeded 1 million, and the following year, probably due to the inertia of World War II, the death toll also reached 1 million.
However, during the period from 1992 to 2014, Germany experienced a period of relative calm. During this time, the number of deaths per year has been kept at more than 800,000.
Over the past five years, the number of deaths in Germany has remained above 900,000 per year, with little fluctuation. However, starting in 2020, this trend has changed significantly.
Between 2020 and 2022, the number of deaths in Germany reached 98 per year60,000, 10240,000 and 10590,000, an increase mainly due to an aging population and the impact of the pandemic.
Since 1972, Germany has been facing negative population growth. Despite various measures taken to increase the birth rate, little has been achieved. Later, the criteria for immigrants and refugees were relaxed, and the population increased to a certain extent.
But even so, the negative annual population growth trend cannot be reversed. According to 2019 data, the total population of Germany is 818480,000 people, of whom 6,053 were Germans20,000 people, accounting for 74%.
When it comes to immigration, Germany prefers immigrants from Eastern Europe, such as Poles, Russians, and Romanians. Among them, the largest number of people of Polish origin is 22370,000 people, accounting for 27%, 138 each for Russians and Romanians80,000 and 10180,000 people, accounting for 17% and 12%。
Culturally close immigrants to Germany came from neighboring Italy, with 87 immigrants of Italian origin30,000 people, accounting for 11%。
The Middle East accounts for the largest proportion of German immigrants in Berlin, with 282 Turkish and Syrian Americans40,000 and 8430,000 people, accounting for 35% and 10%。
In addition, immigrants from Central Asia also occupy a significant share, of which about 124 are of Kazakh origin50,000 people, accounting for 15%。Due to cultural, religious and other factors, immigrants from the Middle East and Central Asia have a relatively low sense of identification with Germany, which has brought some problems while increasing the population.
It is worth noting that there are about 18 people of Chinese descent90,000 people, accounting for 02%。
In 1990, the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, France, and East and West Germany signed the Treaty on the Final Settlement of the German Question in Moscow, realizing the reunification of Germany.
Since then, Germany has experienced 30 years of rapid development and has become a core country of the European Union. However, as the problem of negative population growth is becoming more and more serious, how to solve this problem in Germany has attracted widespread attention.