| |
|---|---|
 Distribution of Vietnamese in Germany (2021) | |
| Total population | |
| 206,000[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Berlin · Leipzig · Magdeburg · Rostock · Erfurt · Dresden · Hanover · Munich | |
| Languages | |
| Vietnamese, German | |
| Religion | |
| Vietnamese folk religion, Mahayana Buddhism,[2] Roman Catholicism[3] and Protestantism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Vietnamese people in Bulgaria, Vietnamese people in the Czech Republic, Vietnamese people in Russia, and other overseas Vietnamese[4] |
Vietnamese people in Germany (Vietnamese: Việt kiều Đức / Người Việt tại Đức; German: Vietnamesen in Deutschland) form one of the country's largest groups of resident foreigners from Asia. Federal Statistical Office figures show 103,260 Vietnamese nationals residing in Germany at the end of 2020, which is the fourth largest community from Asia excluding transcontinental, Caucusus and Middle Eastern states.[5] Not included in those figures are individuals of Vietnamese origin or descent who have been naturalised as German citizens. Other data from 2020 shows 183,000 people of Vietnamese descent, of which 117,000 have a migration background.[6]
Between 1981 and 2007, 41,499 people renounced Vietnamese citizenship to take up German nationality.[7] A further 40,000 irregular migrants of Vietnamese origin were estimated to live in Germany, largely concentrated in the Eastern states, as of 2005[update].[8]
- ^ "Bevölkerung in Privathaushalten nach Migrationshintergrund im weiteren Sinn nach ausgewählten Geburtsstaaten" [Population in private households according to migration background in the broader sense according to selected countries of birth]. Federal Statistical Office of Germany (in German).
- ^ "Cộng đồng Việt tổ chức Đại lễ Phật Đản tại Đức", Voice of Vietnam, 2013-05-15, retrieved 2013-07-22
- ^ Baumann 2000, Ch. 3
- ^ Bui 2004, p. 16
- ^ Bevölkerung und Erwerbstätigkeit destatis.de (in German)
- ^ "Bevölkerung in Privathaushalten nach Migrationshintergrund im weiteren Sinn nach ausgewählten Geburtsstaaten".
- ^ Wolf 2007, p. 3
- ^ Hillmann 2005, p. 80