In 2014 roughly 10.9m immigrants lived in Germany. in a total population of 80.2m. This group includes all migrants who settled down in Germany in 1950 or later. Compared with 2011, their number increased by approximately 1m (+11%) — in a decade, Destatis, the German federal statistics office, also reports that the number of children starting school in Germany fell by 14%. Meanwhile this month Angela Merkel, German chancellor, said she expects Germany to receive a record 800,000 asylum seekers this year, more than the entire EU combined in 2014, highlighting the scale of the biggest refugee crisis to face Europe since the second world war.