Muslim Life in Germany - Deutsche Islam Konferenz

How many Muslims live in Germany? 97
Figure 13: Average age of persons with a migrant background according
to religion and region of origin (in years) 41
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
29,3
37,2
27,2
Southeast
Europe
26,1
26,2
30,9
31,2
32,5
34,1
Turkey Central
Asia/CIS
32,7
28,1
34,1
28,1
35,0
21,9
28,6
27,6
23,0
23,0
28,7
22,2
28,4
28,8
28,3
32,6
30,1
Muslims Other religion No religion
Source: MLG 2008, dataset covering all household members, weighted. Unweighted
number of cases: 16,661
24,5
Iran South/
Southeast
Asia
Middle
Eas t
North
Africa
other parts
of Africa
The average age of household members for the countries of
origin covered is 30.3 years old. Persons without a religious affiliation
are considerably younger, while Muslims, at 30.1 years
of age, are slightly younger and members of other religions are
older (figure 13). The average age of Muslims from various regions
of origin varies between a low of 27.2 years among immigrants
from Southeast Europe and their dependents and a high
of 34.1 years among persons from Iran or Central Asia/CIS.
If a comparison is made between the age structure of
the population of Muslims studied with the total population
of Germany and the population in Germany with a migrant
background using data from the 2007 microcensus, it becomes
clear that this is a young population group. The microcensus
41 These values relate to all of the persons with a migrant background living in the
households. They are the definitive values for structural findings. The distribution
among the Muslims surveyed for those 16 years of age and older may deviate
slightly (see figure 18).
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