Arabs in Germany
Distribution of citizens of Arab countries in Germany (2021) | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| approximately 1-2 million people with a background from an Arabic-speaking country | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Berlin, Bochum, Bonn, Bremen, Cologne, Dortmund, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Essen, Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Munich, Offenbach, Wuppertal, Mainz, Braunschweig, Nürnberg | |
| Languages | |
| Arabic • German | |
| Religion | |
| Majority Islam (mainly Sunni Islam, minorities Twelver Shia Islam, Alevism, Alawites, Sufism, Isma'ilism, Zaidiyyah, Ibadi) Christianity (mainly Syriac Orthodox Church, minorities Eastern Catholic Churches, Oriental Orthodoxy, Syriac Maronite Church, Coptic Orthodox Church) Druze Mandaeans Atheism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Arabs (Arab diaspora) |
Arab Germans, also referred to as German Arabs or Arabic Germans (German: Araber in Deutschland/Deutsch-Araber; Arabic: العرب في المانيا), are ethnic Arabs living in Germany. They form the second-largest predominantly Muslim immigrant group.
Today, by far the largest group of Arabs living in Germany is from Syria, with 1,281,000 people with a Syrian immigrant background alone in 2023. Syrians mostly arrived in Germany after 2015, when the German government under Angela Merkel decided to keep the borders open to refugees from the Syrian civil war. Since then, they have been by far the largest group of immigrants to Germany. To a lesser extent, there has been Arab immigration before, most notably by Moroccans during the guest worker movement or by Palestinian and Lebanese refugees who moved to Germany, especially West Berlin, in the 1980s. The majority of Arabs in Germany are refugees from the conflicts in the Middle East.