More than 1 million refugees, including 39 percent Syrians, reached Germany last year, the Interior Ministry said in a report.
The report, released on Wednesday, said that 1,091,894 migrants were registered by the authorities in 2015, DW reported. They included 428,000 Syrians, 154,000 Afghans and 121,000 Iraqis.
The arrivals were five times more than in 2014. Out of 1.1 million arrivals, nearly 475,000 people formally applied for asylum last year.
"With more than 476,649 applications last year, we have had the highest number of asylum applications in Germany so far. The number of people who arrived in Germany with the goal of applying for asylum is much higher," Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere in a statement, according to Anadolu Agency.
The minister, however, said that the German government will take steps to reduce the scale of migrant reflux.
"We think the level of refugees and asylum-seekers who have come to Germany is too high, and are working so that it isn't repeated on this scale in 2016," de Maiziere said, according to the Associated Press.
"We will work in all policy areas towards sharply reducing the number of new asylum-seekers to Germany," he added, according to Politico.
Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has been under pressure for her open door policy for asylum seekers, said earlier that nearly 800,000 refugees were expected in 2015.
