Statistics: How many Americans live in Thuringia?
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- About 780 US citizens lived in Thuringia on Dec. 31, 2025, up from roughly 680 a year earlier and 575 in 2016.
- The figures came from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics, which said it did not know how many also held other nationalities.
- Jena is hosting its sixth German-American Friendship Day with the US Consulate General in Leipzig.
About 780 people with US citizenship lived in Thuringia at the end of 2025, according to data from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics. The figures were provided in response to a request.
The number rose by around 100 in one year, from approximately 680 at the end of 2024. About 435 of the US citizens living in the state were men. Ten years earlier, at the end of 2016, the figure stood at roughly 575.
The statistics office said it did not know whether the residents also held other citizenships, including German nationality.
Jena is hosting the sixth German-American Friendship Day with the US Consulate General in Leipzig. The consulate is responsible for Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt as well as Saxony. The city said Thuringia and the United States maintain close economic and research ties, and that these links remain strong for many companies and research institutions in Jena despite political changes in recent years.
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Originally published by Die Zeit in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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