There were 8.2 million foreigners living in Germany in 2014, up by 6.8% compared to 2013 and a new record high for the country, according to the German Statistics Office, reports local Mediafax.

The number of Romanians living in Germany increased by 32.9% year-on-year to 355,000.

Almost 60% of foreigners in Germany came from EU member states, the number of Romanians registering the highest growth in 2014 (32.9%), followed by Bulgarians (up by 24.8%).

The Turks had the largest community of 1.53 million people, slightly down from 2013 as some of them obtained German citizenship.

Polish rank second with some 674,000 immigrants, followed by Italians – 575,000, Romanians – 355,000 and Greeks – 329,000.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com