I wanted to wrap up this series of posts I have been writing about the people living in Berlin, using data provided by the Statistical Office of Berlin-Brandenburg, with a final post about EU foreign citizens living in the city.

A couple of days ago I was discussing how Poland, Italy, and Bulgaria were the EU countries with the highest number of expats living in Berlin, but the data also contains a very interesting breakdown per district (Bezirk).

I put the totals in a density map:

I also used the specific country data to create a matrix heatmap using the tutorial on how to create a heatmap with jQuery and Tables. See the resulting table below:

There are a couple of interesting conclusions from the data: The Polish are definitely the largest minority from the EU countries, and this can be observed in every district. Mitte is definitely the most popular district for most of the EU citizens, and finally, Marzahn-Hellersdorf is the least popular overall.

Almost the same picture taken near Rosenthalerplatz in two different seasons in Berlin.

Following my post yesterday, I kept digging into the data published by the Statistical Office of Berlin-Brandenburg. I wanted to discover where most of the "Foreign" Europeans living in Berlin come from. Since the European Union agreement allows the free movement of people across member states, I was expecting that the number 1 slot would be taken by a country within the EU borders. Actually, it’s Turkey that has the most immigrants living in Berlin, with almost 100k people:

Now the second and third positions are from countries in the European Union: Poland and Italy. This is followed by one of the newcomers in the union: Bulgaria.

The Statistical Office of Berlin-Brandenburg publishes some very interesting reports including: Einwohnerinnen und Einwohner im Land Berlin (Residents in the State of Berlin, 31 December 2014). One of the remarkable sections of this document is about the country of origin of the foreign residents living in Berlin. It offers a breakdown by continents, regions, and countries, so I was curious about the top countries in South America:

I'm not surprised to discover Brazil (3948 people) is #1 on the list, but I wasn't expecting that Colombia (1527) was going to be the second one in that region. Interesting.

I have to confess I had never heard about the Zika virus until I started reading about it in some Colombian newspaper articles a couple of weeks ago. The outbreak of this virus in South America and the Caribbean has been in the international news lately because infection in pregnant women is unfortunately associated with microcephaly.

The incidence of those malformations has increased substantially in Brazil and it is apparently related to Zika, so there are now travel warnings in place to the countries affected by this virus:

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