Wiesbaden (dpa) – In 2021, major German cities shrank to a greater extent as a result of people moving away within Germany than at any time since 1994. In 2021, exactly 128,507 more people moved out of large cities than moved to them from within Germany, the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) in Wiesbaden announced. In 2019 – i.e. before the pandemic – the decrease in internal migration within Germany was less than half that figure, at 60,554. The BiB believes that the possible reasons are changed living preferences, housing shortages and persistently high housing prices in the big cities.
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