Editing Saxony-Anhalt (section)

==Demographics==
{{historical populations|13=1990|14=2,873,957|15=1995|16=2,738,928|17=2000|18=2,615,375|19=2005|20=2,469,716|21=2011|22=2,287,040|23=2022|24=2,146,443|footnote=Source:<ref>{{cite web |author=Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt |url=https://statistik.sachsen-anhalt.de/themen/bevoelkerung-erwerbstaetigenrechnung-mikrozensus-evs/bevoelkerung/tabellen-bevoelkerungsstand/#c234712 |title=Bevölkerungsentwicklung seit 1966 |publisher=statistik.sachsen-anhalt.de |language=de |access-date=2020-05-04 |archive-date=6 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200406150808/https://statistik.sachsen-anhalt.de/themen/bevoelkerung-erwerbstaetigenrechnung-mikrozensus-evs/bevoelkerung/tabellen-bevoelkerungsstand/#c234712 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Germany: States and Major Cities|url=https://citypopulation.de/en/germany/cities/}}</ref>}}Since German reunification, there has been a continuous downward trend in the population of Saxony-Anhalt. This is partly due to outward migration and partly because the death rate exceeds the birth rate. Although the birth rate has been steady since 1994, the [[net reproduction rate]] is only approximately 70%. However, the [[total fertility rate]] reached 1.50 in 2014, the highest value since 1990.

===Religion===
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{{bar percent|[[Protestant Church in Germany|EKD Protestants]]|DodgerBlue|11.9}}
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The region has historically been associated with the [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] faith, but under Communist rule, church membership was strongly discouraged and much of the population disassociated itself from any religious body. Saxony-Anhalt contains many sites tied to Martin Luther's life, including [[Lutherstadt Eisleben]] and [[Lutherstadt Wittenberg]].

In 2018, the majority of citizens in Saxony-Anhalt were irreligious and more were leaving the churches than entering them<ref name="sachsen-anhalt-wahl.de">[http://www.sachsen-anhalt-wahl.de/das-land-sachsen-anhalt/religion-in-sachsen-anhalt.htm#more-15] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317152800/http://www.sachsen-anhalt-wahl.de/das-land-sachsen-anhalt/religion-in-sachsen-anhalt.htm#more-15|date=17 March 2012}}</ref> – in fact, Saxony-Anhalt is the most irreligious state in Germany. Of the Saxon-Anhaltish, 15.2% adhered to the major denominations of Christianity (11.9% were members of the [[Protestant Church in Germany]] and 3.3% were [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholics]]),<ref name="ekd">[https://www.ekd.de/ekd_de/ds_doc/Ber_Kirchenmitglieder_2018.pdf Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland – Kirchemitgliederzahlen Stand 31. Dezember 2018] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219200647/https://www.ekd.de/ekd_de/ds_doc/Ber_Kirchenmitglieder_2018.pdf |date=19 February 2020 }} EKD, January 2020</ref> 2% were members of other religions<ref name="sachsen-anhalt-wahl.de"/> (mostly Islam, Judaism, the [[New Apostolic Church]] and [[Mandeism]]). Of the citizens of Saxony-Anhalt, 82.8% were religiously unaffiliated.<ref name="sachsen-anhalt-wahl.de"/><ref name="ekd"/> As of July 2019 there were 1,892 Jehovah's Witnesses (publishers) in Sachsen-Anhalt. Originally their branch office for Germany was in Magdeburg. When World War II ended in 1945, the property in Magdeburg, then part of East Germany, was returned and the branch was reestablished. But on 30 August 1950 Communist police stormed the facilities and arrested the workers, and the Jehovah's Witnesses in the German Democratic Republic (DDR) were banned.

===Foreigners===

The percentage of foreigners in Saxony-Anhalt was 4.9 percent by 31 December 2018, the third lowest among the 16 states of Germany (together with Saxony and Thuringia).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.statistikportal.de/de/bevoelkerung/auslaendische-bevoelkerung |title=Ausländische Bevölkerung |website=statistikportal.de |date=2019-07-17 |language=de |access-date=2020-05-04 |archive-date=22 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022145250/https://www.statistikportal.de/de/bevoelkerung/auslaendische-bevoelkerung |url-status=live }}</ref>

The largest foreign resident groups by 31 December 2022 were:<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://statistik.sachsen-anhalt.de/themen/bevoelkerung-erwerbstaetigenrechnung-mikrozensus-evs/bevoelkerung/bevoelkerungsstand/ |title=1/3 der Ausländerinnen und Ausländer im Rahmen der EU-Freizügigkeit in Sachsen-Anhalt |website=statistik.sachsen-anhalt.de |date=2020-04-08 |language=de |access-date=2020-05-04 |archive-date=6 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200406142019/https://statistik.sachsen-anhalt.de/themen/bevoelkerung-erwerbstaetigenrechnung-mikrozensus-evs/bevoelkerung/bevoelkerungsstand/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Nationality || Population (31 December 2022) || Population (31 December 2023)
|-
|{{flag|Ukraine}}||34,678 || 33,760
|-
|{{flag|Syria}}||21,240 || 28,805
|-
|{{flag|Poland}}||13,257 || 14,155
|-
|{{flag|Romania}}||8,243 || 10,910
|-
|{{flag|Afghanistan}}||045 || 8,875
|-
|{{flag|India}}||4,720 || 5,925
|-
|{{flag|Turkey}}||4,285 || 5,800
|-
|{{flag|Bulgaria}}||5,085 || 5,000
|-
|{{flag|Russia}}||4,650 || 4,960
|-
|{{flag|Vietnam}}||8,754 || 4,680
|}