compatriots.net finds 2,687,043 people from abroad holding company roles, research posts or other documented positions in Germany, from 241 countries of origin; 108,046 of them are recorded by an official register.
The largest groups come from United States, United Kingdom, India.
| Country of origin | People |
|---|---|
| United States | 538,999 |
| United Kingdom | 249,875 |
| India | 197,511 |
| France | 166,428 |
| Brazil | 109,987 |
| Netherlands | 104,378 |
| Spain | 102,556 |
| Italy | 98,918 |
| Poland | 87,032 |
| China | 81,213 |
| Türkiye | 66,873 |
| Canada | 57,113 |
| Mexico | 56,817 |
| Austria | 56,802 |
| Switzerland | 50,182 |
| Russian Federation | 49,163 |
| Australia | 45,884 |
| Romania | 43,995 |
| Belgium | 37,434 |
| Czechia | 34,233 |
| Sweden | 33,364 |
| Denmark | 30,327 |
| Hungary | 25,875 |
| Portugal | 25,871 |
| South Africa | 24,925 |
| Argentina | 21,714 |
| Egypt | 21,712 |
| Ukraine | 21,446 |
| Philippines | 20,517 |
| Pakistan | 20,489 |
| Ireland | 19,174 |
| Greece | 18,379 |
| Singapore | 17,546 |
| Indonesia | 17,226 |
| Colombia | 17,032 |
| Bulgaria | 15,537 |
| Finland | 14,603 |
| Japan | 14,038 |
| Slovakia | 13,852 |
| Chile | 13,686 |
| Other | 253,038 |
Industry is not available for this register.
Abroad, 1,190,485 people from Germany are documented in 239 other countries.
| Host country | People |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 345,857 |
| United States | 332,743 |
| Switzerland | 119,956 |
| France | 100,302 |
| Netherlands | 73,566 |
| Austria | 60,864 |
| Poland | 60,607 |
| Spain | 44,598 |
| Canada | 36,030 |
| Italy | 31,788 |
| Sweden | 30,085 |
| Belgium | 27,253 |
| Australia | 25,069 |
| Denmark | 21,754 |
| Czechia | 21,347 |
| Ireland | 17,198 |
| China | 16,472 |
| Finland | 15,753 |
| India | 14,970 |
| Norway | 11,960 |
| Russian Federation | 11,816 |
| Japan | 11,599 |
| Luxembourg | 10,300 |
| Brazil | 10,152 |
| Bulgaria | 9,406 |
| South Africa | 8,564 |
| Türkiye | 8,312 |
| Hungary | 8,203 |
| Singapore | 7,443 |
| Ukraine | 5,720 |
| Slovakia | 5,717 |
| Mexico | 5,560 |
| New Zealand | 5,489 |
| Portugal | 5,446 |
| Thailand | 5,314 |
| Israel | 5,147 |
| United Arab Emirates | 5,120 |
| Romania | 5,075 |
| Hong Kong | 4,167 |
| Greece | 3,624 |
| Other | 83,496 |
Germany's company register lists 8,522,065 officer rows, 128,125 with a stated nationality (self-stamp rate 0.64; above 0.98 the field is ignored as it only repeats the register's own country).
Some company details from this register are incomplete in the current build; the people counts are not affected.
Counts are people with a documented cross-border move: an official register's nationality or birthplace, ORCID/VIAF/Wikidata records, or a dated study-then-work transition. Name-based estimates and heritage (ancestral) readings are not included in these counts. Groups under 5 people are folded into "Other".
How many company officers abroad carry names that a name-origin model places in Germany. This includes people whose families left generations ago, which the documented counts above cannot see. These are expected counts, not people, and no individual is labelled by them.
| Host country | Expected people |
|---|---|
| United States † | 48,000 |
| Switzerland | 15,000 |
| Austria | 9,600 |
| Belgium | 6,500 |
| Canada † | 5,500 |
| South Africa | 3,600 |
| Spain † | 3,000 |
| Hungary | 1,500 |
| Croatia | 1,000 |
| New Zealand † | 920 |
| China | 540 |
| Colombia | 210 |
| Greece | 170 |
| Chile | 140 |
| Ireland | 140 |
| Tanzania | 110 |
| Iceland | 100 |
| Peru | 70 |
| Mauritius | 70 |
| Vietnam | 60 |
| Montenegro | 60 |
| Israel | 60 |
| Ukraine | 40 |
| Japan | 40 |
| Albania | 40 |
| Nigeria | 30 |
| Malaysia | 20 |
| Indonesia | 20 |
| Honduras | 20 |
| Georgia | 20 |
| Isle of Man † | 10 |
| Bermuda † | 10 |
| Saudi Arabia | 10 |
| Jordan † | 9 |
| Panama † | 9 |
| Cambodia | 9 |
| Samoa † | 6 |
| Ghana | 5 |
| Other | 9 |
Registers where the estimate fails, or cannot take, a check against recorded nationality are left out, among them France, United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, Sweden, Netherlands. † marks a host where most names point abroad; read its figure as ancestry, not migration. How this is estimated.
Aggregate statistics from official company registers, ORCID, VIAF and Wikidata, compiled by compatriots.net · data build v3_20261103. No individual is named on this page. See methodology & privacy.
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