Thread by @MFratzscher

Fun facts on the 100th birthday of my favorite city — Berlin — which was founded on 1 October 1920 as a merger of several adjacent cities.
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A fabulous birthday publication, for statistics geeks:
statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de/produkte/faltb…

Berlin in 1920 instantly became the third largest city in the world, after New York City and London, with 3.8 million citizens — though it has fewer inhabitants today than during its “golden 1920s”.
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Berlin has always been a city of immigrants. 
During the 2010s, net immigration has been between 40,000 and 50,000 per year.

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Berlin is colorful and diverse — 20% of the citizens of Berlin have a foreign passport, and many more have a migrant background.

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Berlin is one of the top tourist destinations in the world, with 14 million visitors annually (most from the UK and the US), up from 3 million in 1990.

Berlin is a city of culture, arts and science. Today it has almost 200,000 students and plenty of excellent universities and research institutions.

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Berlin’s openness and tolerance, which are attracting a motivated, smart and diverse group of young people is maybe Berlin’s greatest strength today (also in comparison to other European capitals, as shown in this figure).

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diw.de/documents/publ…