Development of the numbers of ethnic German emigrants from 1950 - 1997

Translation from German to English from the publication Information für Spätaussideler aus der ehemaligen Sowjetunion published by the Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, Stuttgart, Germany, 1998.

Fortunately, since 1987, there are greatly increasing numbers of ethnic German emigrants who are allowed to come to us from the former Soviet Union. You and all the countrymen yet to come are very welcome here!

Here are the numbers from 1950 - 1997:

YEAR	# EMIGRANTS	YEAR	# EMIGRANTS
1950	0	1970	342
1951	1,721	1971	1,140
1952	63	1972	3,418
1953	0	1973	4,418
1954	18	1974	6,517
1955	154	1975	5,827
1956	1,016	1976	9,723
1957	932	1977	9,285
1958	4,122	1978	8,418
1959	5,563	1979	7,189
1960	3,272	1980	6,889
1961	345	1981	3,785
1962	894	1982	2,059
1963	209	1983	1,440
1964	234	1984	910
1965	366	1985	457
1966	1,245	1986	730
1967	1,092	1987	14,270
1968	598	1988	47,270
1969	316	1989	98,134
		1990	147,950
		1991	147,320
		1992	195,576
		1993	207,347
		1994	213,214
		1995	209,409
		1996	172,181
		1997	131,895