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The overall number of refugees in Germany has fallen for the first time in over 10 years, according to government statistics made public by the Left Party on Friday.
This marks the first drop in the total number of refugees living in Germany since 2011.
The total number includes recent arrivals and long-term residents as well as refugees from Ukraine.
The decline reflects a combination of an increase in deportations, voluntary departures and naturalizations, The Left party said.
Data from the Interior Ministry shows 83,150 Syrians were granted German citizenship, though not all of them were refugees.
Of the roughly 3.5 million refugees, some 492,000 currently hold uncertain status, including asylum-seekers whose claims are being processed and people with temporary permission to remain in Germany. At the end of July, 1.27 million refugees from Ukraine were living in Germany.
The Left party's Clara Bünger called the decline "no cause for celebration," adding that fewer people in need of protection were making it through the European Union's borders.
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