Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Germany and United Kingdom, side by side

Germany in 2026: half the people are older than 47. The United Kingdom: half are older than 41.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Germany 84,548,231 people · United Kingdom 68,682,962

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

United Kingdom 69.9 million people Half are older than 41 20 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 × GBR · 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

United Kingdom

Children, under 15: 17
Aged 15 to 64: 63
Aged 65 and over: 20

DEU × GBR · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

Germany is at about 1.5 children for each woman, at this year's rates; the United Kingdom is at about 1.5. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 82 years in Germany, about 82 in the United Kingdom.

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

United Kingdom 1.5

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

United Kingdom 82 years

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

DEU × GBR · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

There are 83.6 million people in Germany and 69.9 million in the United Kingdom: about 20% more people than the United Kingdom.

Germany's population is 1.2 times what it was in 1950; the United Kingdom's population is 1.4 times what it was in 1950.

Looking ahead: Germany's population peaked in 2024, and the United Kingdom's population is expected to peak in 2072. The UN expects the United Kingdom to have more people than Germany from 2059. In 2100: 70.9 million in Germany, 74.3 million in the United Kingdom (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Germany: people	United Kingdom: people	Germany: half older than	United Kingdom: half older than	Germany: children per woman	United Kingdom: children per woman	Germany: life expectancy	United Kingdom: life expectancy
1950	69.8478 million	50.1210 million	33.9	34.9	2.19	2.22	66.8	68.6
1960	72.8116 million	52.5386 million	34.7	35.5	2.38	2.70	69.3	71.0
1970	78.2051 million	55.6638 million	34.2	34.2	2.02	2.42	70.7	71.9
1980	78.3154 million	56.2821 million	36.7	34.3	1.56	1.89	73.1	73.6
1990	79.7080 million	57.3679 million	37.6	35.9	1.46	1.83	75.3	75.7
2000	81.7973 million	59.0573 million	40.0	37.6	1.39	1.64	78.1	77.8
2010	80.8309 million	63.0065 million	44.3	39.2	1.40	1.92	80.1	80.4
2023	84.5482 million	68.6830 million	46.1	40.8	1.44	1.56	81.4	81.3
2030*	82.7810 million	71.2870 million	47.3	41.7	1.48	1.52	82.5	82.4
2040*	80.5517 million	73.7746 million	49.1	43.1	1.51	1.53	83.9	83.8
2050*	78.2946 million	75.5047 million	48.9	43.9	1.54	1.55	85.2	85.1
2060*	75.6046 million	76.0104 million	47.6	45.7	1.56	1.56	86.4	86.3
2070*	73.6158 million	76.0491 million	48.2	46.9	1.56	1.57	87.5	87.4
2080*	72.1125 million	75.9562 million	48.1	47.4	1.58	1.58	88.7	88.5
2090*	71.2004 million	75.3783 million	47.7	48.0	1.59	1.59	89.7	89.5
2100*	70.8999 million	74.3054 million	48.4	48.9	1.60	1.59	90.8	90.6

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

DEU − GBR · 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 the United Kingdom, 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 the United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom 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.

The working behind the median age, the rounding in the “100 people” pictures and the reason the regions are kept out of the all-country views are all set out in the method.

250 comparisons have a page of their own; any other two places can be compared from the boxes at the top.

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

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