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This is a re-posting of an article in "Die Welt" that was and is so far hidden behind a paywall.


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• “ The Federal Institute for Population Research presented study results last year with regard to the qualification level of Germans who were leaving. As a result, around three quarters of those who emigrated had a university degree - in the population that is only a good quarter. For example, there is a disproportionately large number of emigrants with a master's or doctorate degree, while people with a high school or lower school leaving certificate are underrepresented . (Also, they were) mostly young. On average, they are 37 years old and thus around ten years younger than the general population . “- bto: This is a top-class brain drain and it is a shame that this is not becoming a top political issue.

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Especially the highly qualified are turning their backs on Germany


Yesterday I took a look at the qualifications of the next generation: the fatal consequences of lowering educational standards in combination with a failed migration and integration policy.
But that's not all. Germany has been losing residents for years. Especially the highly qualified are turning their backs on Germany , as the WELT headlines:

• " According to the current migration report of the federal government, around 58,000 more German citizens left the country permanently than moved here. This so-called net migration results from subtracting permanent emigration (270,294) from immigration (212,669). The data from the Federal Statistical Office, to which the Federal Government refers in its migration report, has shown a negative balance since 2005: more German citizens emigrate than move into the country . “- bto : I have repeatedly asked to take this aspect seriously and to work on the framework conditions so that more people stay in Germany.
• “ In the current migration report it says about this statistical peculiarity: 'Taking out the persons included in the process of expulsion who are registered in the immigration statistics as immigration of Germans , the migration balance of German nationals has been negative since the 1980s . Taking into account the late repatriate influx, however, the migration balance was positive up to 2004. '“- bto : So it was the repatriates who improved the numbers. For over thirty years we have had Germans born here and - so my strong assumption - a brain drain.
• “ In the four years up to the end of 2019, a total of 335,787 more German citizens moved away than they came in (1,062,737 emigrants and 726,950 immigrants). However, the increase is strongly related to a change in the way in which the Federal Statistical Office collected data: Up until 2015, only those people were counted as emigrants who de-registered from a new address abroad in this country. (…) Since then, statisticians have assumed that people who have registered here but not registered again anywhere else in Germany have moved abroad. Because it is unlikely that large numbers of Germans will not register at their new place of residence after moving within Germany , the new survey method is also considered more reliable by the Federal Institute for Population Research. “- bto : translated - probably more people emigrated in previous years.
• “ The loss of migration of 336,000 Germans in the past four years and the more than 3.6 million citizens who died were compared to only 2.4 million births of mothers with German citizenship. So Germany loses several hundred thousand citizens every year due to excess deaths and emigration . However, this is more than offset by high levels of immigration. According to the migration report, the migration surplus of non-Germans in 2019 was 385,000 (1.3 million immigrants and 960,000 emigrations). In the previous year, the surplus was significantly higher, namely at 460,000 . “- bto: The politicians would then say: “It’s okay.” We’re becoming more multicultural, more colorful - all good. The only problem is, as discussed yesterday, that our education tends to deteriorate and that the education system cannot correct this, even if it were better.
• "(...) The migration report makes statements about the composition of the immigrant groups, according to which in 2019 around a third of the migration balance was accounted for by citizens of other EU countries (113,000), another third by humanitarian immigration (126,000) and the remaining third by non-EU countries. Citizens who immigrated with work, family reunification or other visas . The nationalities with the highest net migration in 2019 were Romania (40,000), Syria (24,000), Turkey (21,000), India and Bulgaria (20,000 each). “- bto: We know from PISA studies that the performance level in these countries is significantly below that here. Indian immigrants can be the exception because traditionally a lot of IT specialists come here. So you don't have to calculate too much to see that there is a decline in qualifications, which we as an aging industrial society cannot afford.
• “ The Federal Institute for Population Research presented study results last year with regard to the qualification level of Germans who were leaving. As a result, around three quarters of those who emigrated had a university degree - in the population that is only a good quarter. For example, there is a disproportionately large number of emigrants with a master's or doctorate degree, while people with a high school or lower school leaving certificate are underrepresented . (Also, they were) mostly young. On average, they are 37 years old and thus around ten years younger than the general population . “- bto: This is a top-class brain drain and it is a shame that this is not becoming a top political issue.

One can only conclude that we are ruining the very foundations of our prosperity at a tremendous rate.