Citizenship Rights for Aliens in Germany

Abstract

By the end of 1998 there were 7.32 million foreign nationals living in Germany, accounting for 9 per cent of the German Population.1 The largest groups of foreigners living in Germany came from Turkey with 2.11 million (28.8%), from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia with 719 474 (9.8%), from Italy with 612 048 (8.4%), from Greece with 363 514 (5%), from Poland with 283 604 (3.9%), from Croatia with 208 909 (2.9%), from Bosnia with 190 119 (2.6%) and from Austria with 185 159 (2.5%). Only 25.1 per cent of all foreigners living in Germany were nationals from EU Member States.