More than one in four students in Germany has an immigration background. Last year, this applied to 29 percent of pupils in general schools, the Federal Statistical Office announced on Tuesday. Among teachers, the share is significantly lower at eleven percent. By comparison, around one in four people in Germany has such a background.
“A person has an immigration history if he or both parents have immigrated to Germany since 1950,” the statisticians explained. Another twelve percent of the student population has only one parent who has immigrated to Germany, while 59 percent have no immigration history. Among teachers, five have only one immigrant parent, while 84 percent have no immigration history.
The trend is rising
“The share of people with an immigration history has increased over the past five years, both among students and teachers in general schools,” the statisticians said. In 2018, it was almost 26 percent of students in general schools, three percentage points less than last year (29 percent). Among teachers, this share was almost nine percent in 2018 and two percentage points lower than last year.
The data are based on the so-called microcensus. In this sample survey, approximately one percent of the population in Germany is interviewed annually. All information is based on self-disclosure by the participants. In order to be able to draw conclusions about the total population from the collected data, the data are extrapolated on the basis of the key figures of the population update, it was said.
Source: Krone
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