Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Germany and Türkiye, side by side

In 2026, half of the people in Germany are older than 47. In Türkiye, half are older than 35.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Germany 84,548,231 people · Türkiye 87,270,502

Germany 83.6 million people Half are older than 47 24 in 100 are 65 or older

Türkiye 87.9 million people Half are older than 35 11 in 100 are 65 or older

How to read this: each pyramid stacks a place’s people by age — babies at the bottom, the oldest at the top, men on the left and women on the right. A wide bottom means many children; a wide top means many older people.

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Each bar is a share of its own place’s people, so a small country and a large one can be read side by side.

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DEU × TUR · 2026 · age groups

If each place were 100 people

Shrink each population to 100 people and count them. Dots are children under 15, filled squares are people aged 15 to 64, and open squares are people 65 and over. The picture follows the year slider above.

Germany

Children, under 15: 14
Aged 15 to 64: 62
Aged 65 and over: 24

Türkiye

Children, under 15: 21
Aged 15 to 64: 68
Aged 65 and over: 11

DEU × TUR · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

At today's rates, a woman in Germany would have about 1.5 children in her lifetime. In Türkiye, about 1.6. A baby born in Germany this year can expect to live about 82 years. In Türkiye, about 78.

Children per woman, 2026

Each figure is one child: how many children a woman would have in her lifetime at that year’s rates.

Germany 1.5

Türkiye 1.6

The dashed line at 2.1 is about what it takes for each generation to replace the one before it, leaving migration aside.

How long a newborn can expect to live, 2026

Each block is ten years of life, if the death rates of that year stayed the same all life long.

Germany 82 years

Türkiye 78 years

Hatched marks are UN projections (medium variant), not measurements.

DEU × TUR · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

There are 87.9 million people in Türkiye and 83.6 million in Germany: about as many people as Germany.

Set each against its own 1950 self and Germany's population is 1.2 times what it was in 1950, Türkiye's population is 4.2 times what it was in 1950.

Looking ahead: Germany's population peaked in 2024, and Türkiye's population is expected to peak in 2047. The UN expects Germany to have more people than Türkiye from 2092. In 2100: 70.9 million in Germany, 65.3 million in Türkiye (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Germany: people	Türkiye: people	Germany: half older than	Türkiye: half older than	Germany: children per woman	Türkiye: children per woman	Germany: life expectancy	Türkiye: life expectancy
1950	69.8478 million	21.0211 million	33.9	19.6	2.19	6.47	66.8	47.3
1960	72.8116 million	28.3299 million	34.7	19.4	2.38	6.38	69.3	50.8
1970	78.2051 million	36.6385 million	34.2	18.6	2.02	5.78	70.7	56.7
1980	78.3154 million	45.4088 million	36.7	19.8	1.56	4.45	73.1	62.7
1990	79.7080 million	56.0156 million	37.6	21.8	1.46	3.11	75.3	67.8
2000	81.7973 million	65.4260 million	40.0	25.0	1.39	2.49	78.1	71.9
2010	80.8309 million	73.3468 million	44.3	29.1	1.40	2.08	80.1	75.0
2023	84.5482 million	87.2705 million	46.1	33.5	1.44	1.63	81.4	77.2
2030*	82.7810 million	89.0275 million	47.3	36.8	1.48	1.61	82.5	79.1
2040*	80.5517 million	91.0097 million	49.1	41.5	1.51	1.61	83.9	80.9
2050*	78.2946 million	91.2581 million	48.9	45.3	1.54	1.62	85.2	82.5
2060*	75.6046 million	88.8633 million	47.6	48.6	1.56	1.61	86.4	83.9
2070*	73.6158 million	84.3586 million	48.2	51.9	1.56	1.61	87.5	85.2
2080*	72.1125 million	78.5557 million	48.1	53.5	1.58	1.62	88.7	86.4
2090*	71.2004 million	72.0213 million	47.7	54.5	1.59	1.62	89.7	87.5
2100*	70.8999 million	65.3385 million	48.4	55.6	1.60	1.61	90.8	88.6

* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.

DEU − TUR · 1950–2100 · every age

Which ages each place has more of

Each column is a year and each row an age, from babies at the bottom to 100 at the top. The shade of a cell shows which place has more of its people at that age — the key beside the picture tells you which shade is Germany and which is Türkiye, and the in-between shade means the same. Because it compares shares, a small place and a large one can be compared fairly.

236 countries · 1950–2100

Where they sit among all countries

Every country in the world, every year from 1950 to 2100. The grey cloud shows where most countries are; Germany is drawn in solid blue squares and Türkiye in open orange squares, so you can see whether each is ahead of the crowd, behind it or in the middle.

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Sources and method

Germany and Türkiye are drawn here from one source and one release: the UN Population Division's World Population Prospects 2024, counted through 2023 and projected on its medium variant after that. Two places read off the same tables can be set against each other; two read off different tables cannot.

How the median age and the “100 people” pictures are worked out, and why the pictures of every country leave the regions out: how the figures here are put together.

This is one of 250 pairs with a page. The boxes at the top will take any other two places you want to see side by side.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

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