Ukrainian refugees helped push German population up 1.3% last year

Large numbers of refugees fleeing Russia’s war in Ukraine fuelled a 1.3% rise in Germany’s population last year, new official figures show (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Large numbers of refugees fleeing Russia’s war in Ukraine fuelled a 1.3% rise in Germany’s population last year, new official figures show.

They helped push up the number of inhabitants in the European Union’s most populous country to more than 84.4 million.