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Germany

83,491,249

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-25.34K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+1.6%from 82.21M
Life expectancy80.8 years2024
Fertility rate1.36births per woman · 2024
Urban population82.1%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How Germany is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1413.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6462.4%Working-age population
Ages 65+23.7%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate8.1births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate12.1deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-4.0births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-334.07Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Germany look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 78.29M in 2050—7.4% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202484.55M
  2. 205078.29M
  3. 210070.9M
Median age in 205047.9years
Births in 2050690.6Kduring the year
Deaths in 20501.11Mduring the year
Life expectancy85.2years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196072.81M
  2. 197078.17M
  3. 198078.29M
  4. 199079.43M
  5. 200082.21M
  6. 201081.78M
  7. 202083.16M
  8. 202583.49M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/19/2026

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