After the reunification, it attracted many people from East Germany to the West. Now it is the other way around. A source of worry to the East but still young adults.
Almost 30 years after the reunification, more and more people from Western Germany are now in the new Laender. The five East German Federal States excluding Berlin recorded in the year 2017, a migration gain of around 4000 people. The Federal Institute for population research told. If Berlin is included in the calculation, according to the figures, there is a Surplus of 13,000 people.
tendency of East-West migration is stopped
the long-lasting is stopped, tendency of East-West migration. In the 26 years before that the Eastern area countries had lost a total of more than 1.2 million citizens by migration to the West, as the Institute announced. The reason for the trend, especially the continuous decline in the emigration from the East was turning. Left in 2001 roughly 191,000 people in East Germany towards the West, as it were, in the year 2017, only less than 90,000. In the case of young adults between 18 and 29 years, there is, however, the bottom line is still migration losses.
Popular, especially in countries
in addition, there were significant regional differences of migration winners and losers: Saxony, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are particularly popular, however, more and more people of Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia still leave in the direction of the West than Vice versa.