Immigrants in Germany are significantly younger than the average population, according to a database of figures from the country's 2022 census newly made available online.
According to the database, non-German citizens living in the country were on average 37 years old on the cut-off date of the census, May 15, 2022. The average age of German citizens living in the country, meanwhile, was 45.
The data was made available by Germany's Federal Statistical Office.
As of the census date, there were around 15.6 million people living in Germany who had immigrated to the country, or just under 19% of the country's total population.
Of those who had immigrated to Germany, 40% had acquired German citizenship, while 60% had another nationality.
The majority of immigrants came from Poland (12%), Turkey (9%) and Russia (7%). People from Syria and Ukraine accounted for 5% each.
The gender ratio among immigrants was roughly even: 49.7% were men and 50.3% women.
An additional 2.5 million young people in Germany are the German-born children of two immigrants.
The western German city of Offenbach had the highest proportion of immigrants, accounting for 43% of the city's population, with most coming from Turkey, Poland and Romania.
Immigrants also made up more than a third of the population in the cities of Pforzheim (39%), Heilbronn (37%), Frankfurt (36%) and Ingolstadt (33%).