Afro-Germans
Gerald Asamoah, player of the German national football team | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Over 1,000,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Germany (Berlin, Cologne, Stuttgart, Bremen, Hanover, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Munich, Braunschweig, Nuremberg, Hamburg) | |
| Languages | |
| German, English, French, African languages | |
| Religion | |
| Islam, Lutheranism, Roman Catholicism |
Afro-Germans (German: Afrodeutsche) or Black Germans (German: schwarze Deutsche) are German Citizens of Sub-Saharan African descent.
Cities such as Hamburg and Frankfurt, which were formerly centres of occupation forces following World War II and more recent immigration, have substantial Afro-German communities. With modern trade and migration, communities such as Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, and Cologne have an increasing number of Afro-Germans. As of 2020, in a country with a population of 83,000,000, there were over 1,000,000 Afro-Germans. (The German census does not use race as a category). The number of persons "having an extended migrant background" (mit Migrationshintergrund im weiteren Sinn, meaning having at least one grandparent born outside Germany), is given as over 1,000,000 The Initiative Schwarzer Deutscher ("Black German Initiative") estimates the total of Black Germans to be over 1,000,000 persons.