Country or area · Western Europe · Europe · UN WPP 2024

Germany population

Germany population now

83,596,702

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 82.1–85.7 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 84,548,231

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 83.6443 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 82.1–85.7 million
Median age: 46.7
Aged 65+: 24.2%

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DEU · 1950–2100 · in brief

Germany in numbers

84,548,231 people lived in Germany in mid-2023: 1.0% of the world's people, and the 19th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 1.2 times its 1950 population of 69.8 million.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2024 at 84.6 million, then falling to 70.9 million by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 43.5 million to 111 million.

1972 was the last year births kept up with deaths. Every year since has had more deaths than births, as does every projected year to 2100. The population still grows until 2024, because more people arrive than leave.

The median age was 33.9 in 1950 and 46.1 in 2023; the projection has 48.4 in 2100. 22.8% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 31.2% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) peaked in 1997 at 56.2 million; in 2023 it was 53.5 million.

By size it is the 19th country in 2023; the projection puts it 24th in 2050 and 36th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Türkiye in 2092. It is overtaken by Tanzania in 2031, Kenya in 2046 and Sudan in 2046.

Population, mid-2023: 84,548,231
Rank by population, 2023: 19 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 1.0%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.55% · +462,004 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 242
Land area, 2023: 349,430 km²
Births, 2023: 719,249
Deaths, 2023: 1,034,140
Net migration, 2023: +609,553
Children per woman, 2023: 1.44
Median age, 2023: 46.1 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 81.4 years
In a city, 2025: 34 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 69,847,782
Projected, mid-2050: 78,294,613
Projected, mid-2100: 70,899,863

DEU · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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Show the numbers: Germany, 1950–2100

Germany: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	69,917,533		1,205,774	716,873	2.19	66.8
1951	estimate	69,778,031		1,160,531	723,592	2.17	67.1
1952	estimate	69,786,072		1,121,971	731,886	2.14	67.5
1953	estimate	69,867,834		1,101,687	741,859	2.13	67.8
1954	estimate	70,002,401		1,102,575	753,340	2.15	68.1
1955	estimate	70,206,842		1,103,419	765,263	2.16	68.3
1956	estimate	70,461,463		1,128,620	781,213	2.21	68.6
1957	estimate	70,766,343		1,162,863	810,828	2.26	68.5
1958	estimate	71,409,949		1,170,405	803,728	2.26	69.2
1959	estimate	71,979,397		1,241,334	822,852	2.36	69.3
1960	estimate	72,504,038		1,267,948	865,396	2.38	69.3
1961	estimate	73,119,243		1,326,746	840,545	2.46	69.8
1962	estimate	73,632,988		1,322,235	870,705	2.46	70.0
1963	estimate	74,361,018		1,356,661	888,657	2.52	70.1
1964	estimate	75,035,001		1,352,582	865,440	2.52	70.7
1965	estimate	75,591,969		1,313,787	902,050	2.49	70.6
1966	estimate	76,341,959		1,311,588	907,555	2.50	70.7
1967	estimate	76,880,103		1,266,531	910,998	2.44	71.0
1968	estimate	77,061,479		1,199,384	973,087	2.34	70.6
1969	estimate	77,581,079		1,126,954	985,089	2.20	70.5
1970	estimate	78,306,962		1,045,534	975,762	2.02	70.7
1971	estimate	78,103,243		999,488	964,556	1.95	70.9
1972	estimate	78,588,501		891,329	964,507	1.73	71.2
1973	estimate	78,851,336		807,023	962,631	1.55	71.4
1974	estimate	79,082,607		800,215	956,920	1.52	71.7
1975	estimate	78,910,778		780,663	990,756	1.48	71.5
1976	estimate	78,492,952		791,080	968,202	1.49	72.0
1977	estimate	78,236,058		797,024	931,906	1.50	72.6
1978	estimate	78,135,060		799,750	956,325	1.49	72.6
1979	estimate	78,095,659		811,809	945,022	1.49	72.9
1980	estimate	78,200,143		859,436	953,173	1.56	73.1
1981	estimate	78,430,607		859,761	955,608	1.53	73.3
1982	estimate	78,465,473		859,642	945,121	1.50	73.6
1983	estimate	78,321,876		828,065	942,201	1.43	73.9
1984	estimate	78,126,391		813,225	918,845	1.39	74.4
1985	estimate	77,870,006		814,943	931,664	1.38	74.5
1986	estimate	77,856,842		848,604	927,493	1.42	74.7
1987	estimate	77,990,773		870,845	902,017	1.44	75.1
1988	estimate	78,133,875		890,267	901,992	1.46	75.3
1989	estimate	78,638,110		881,757	904,838	1.43	75.5
1990	estimate	79,376,020		907,502	923,338	1.46	75.3
1991	estimate	80,039,898		836,962	913,003	1.34	75.6
1992	estimate	80,566,494		813,209	887,998	1.30	76.0
1993	estimate	81,303,302		805,079	900,238	1.29	76.1
1994	estimate	81,670,243		779,181	888,021	1.25	76.4
1995	estimate	81,876,990		775,950	888,212	1.26	76.5
1996	estimate	82,162,791		807,151	887,652	1.33	76.8
1997	estimate	82,363,588		823,538	864,709	1.38	77.2
1998	estimate	82,415,688		802,982	856,020	1.36	77.6
1999	estimate	81,608,190		770,437	849,512	1.37	77.8
2000	estimate	81,748,384		765,246	842,093	1.39	78.1
2001	estimate	81,846,133		734,433	831,803	1.35	78.4
2002	estimate	82,021,636		719,663	845,080	1.34	78.5
2003	estimate	82,115,017		709,346	858,170	1.34	78.5
2004	estimate	82,108,214		710,544	823,282	1.36	79.1
2005	estimate	82,077,203		692,239	834,529	1.34	79.3
2006	estimate	82,016,258		686,327	825,844	1.34	79.6
2007	estimate	81,387,684		678,771	832,285	1.38	79.7
2008	estimate	81,209,401		676,158	850,066	1.39	79.8
2009	estimate	81,012,152		660,439	860,708	1.37	79.9
2010	estimate	80,858,414		676,779	861,871	1.40	80.1
2011	estimate	80,803,434		668,838	855,249	1.39	80.3
2012	estimate	80,912,313		681,427	872,408	1.41	80.5
2013	estimate	80,920,468		679,660	899,824	1.42	80.5
2014	estimate	81,162,695		710,760	876,322	1.47	80.9
2015	estimate	81,589,465		732,501	931,619	1.50	80.6
2016	estimate	82,565,636		788,207	916,758	1.59	80.8
2017	estimate	82,954,569		784,399	938,507	1.57	80.9
2018	estimate	83,253,445		787,696	961,483	1.57	80.9
2019	estimate	83,483,566		778,799	946,642	1.54	81.2
2020	estimate	83,634,807		775,194	990,849	1.53	81.0
2021	estimate	83,622,610		795,669	956,992	1.58	81.1
2022	estimate	83,771,555		730,553	1,082,760	1.46	80.6
2023	estimate	84,400,899		719,249	1,034,140	1.44	81.4
2024	estimate	84,695,563		717,268	1,040,859	1.45	81.5
2025	projection	84,408,921	83.8–85.0 million	707,972	1,041,599	1.46	81.7
2026	projection	83,741,228	82.7–85.4 million	689,997	1,042,378	1.46	81.9
2027	projection	83,547,288	82.1–85.7 million	680,391	1,043,625	1.46	82.0
2028	projection	83,338,123	81.4–85.9 million	672,607	1,041,997	1.47	82.2
2029	projection	83,120,041	80.8–86.1 million	663,998	1,040,170	1.47	82.3
2030	projection	82,890,845	80.2–86.2 million	655,744	1,038,633	1.48	82.5
2031	projection	82,671,061	79.6–86.4 million	649,483	1,035,042	1.48	82.6
2032	projection	82,433,813	79.1–86.7 million	643,830	1,030,886	1.49	82.8
2033	projection	82,213,540	78.4–86.9 million	639,823	1,027,712	1.49	83.0
2034	projection	81,985,972	77.8–87.1 million	638,335	1,025,217	1.49	83.1
2035	projection	81,779,327	77.1–87.3 million	638,061	1,021,984	1.50	83.2
2036	projection	81,560,492	76.7–87.4 million	639,720	1,020,775	1.50	83.4
2037	projection	81,326,295	76.0–87.4 million	640,333	1,019,550	1.51	83.5
2038	projection	81,107,498	75.3–87.5 million	642,601	1,021,722	1.51	83.7
2039	projection	80,880,495	74.8–87.8 million	645,884	1,024,951	1.51	83.8
2040	projection	80,659,523	74.1–88.0 million	649,015	1,029,728	1.51	83.9
2041	projection	80,443,949	73.7–88.2 million	653,142	1,036,121	1.52	84.0
2042	projection	80,247,363	73.1–88.3 million	659,027	1,043,740	1.52	84.2
2043	projection	80,050,856	72.6–88.7 million	664,445	1,051,750	1.52	84.3
2044	projection	79,833,415	71.9–89.0 million	670,128	1,062,395	1.53	84.4
2045	projection	79,605,811	71.3–89.3 million	675,589	1,071,954	1.53	84.6
2046	projection	79,377,780	70.8–89.4 million	680,867	1,082,788	1.53	84.7
2047	projection	79,151,135	70.3–89.6 million	684,975	1,092,448	1.53	84.8
2048	projection	78,917,426	69.9–89.7 million	689,013	1,100,714	1.54	84.9
2049	projection	78,664,742	69.3–89.7 million	690,184	1,108,165	1.54	85.1
2050	projection	78,417,032	68.4–90.0 million	690,595	1,114,370	1.54	85.2
2051	projection	78,172,194	67.9–90.1 million	690,365	1,119,762	1.54	85.3
2052	projection	77,924,681	67.4–90.3 million	689,396	1,124,188	1.54	85.4
2053	projection	77,677,073	66.7–90.3 million	686,938	1,126,442	1.54	85.6
2054	projection	77,402,648	66.2–90.7 million	682,901	1,125,719	1.54	85.7
2055	projection	77,114,924	65.6–91.0 million	677,998	1,121,243	1.55	85.8
2056	projection	76,825,702	64.9–91.3 million	673,484	1,115,550	1.55	85.9
2057	projection	76,548,302	64.4–91.7 million	667,896	1,107,429	1.55	86.1
2058	projection	76,267,935	63.8–91.6 million	661,428	1,097,015	1.55	86.2
2059	projection	75,990,288	63.3–91.8 million	655,898	1,085,426	1.55	86.3
2060	projection	75,732,484	62.6–92.1 million	650,725	1,070,900	1.56	86.4
2061	projection	75,476,725	62.1–92.5 million	645,426	1,054,946	1.56	86.5
2062	projection	75,246,210	61.4–92.6 million	640,450	1,039,213	1.56	86.6
2063	projection	75,015,764	60.9–92.6 million	635,612	1,022,041	1.56	86.7
2064	projection	74,803,366	60.4–92.7 million	632,337	1,005,188	1.56	86.9
2065	projection	74,600,089	59.8–93.0 million	629,327	988,744	1.56	87.0
2066	projection	74,405,945	59.3–93.0 million	627,050	974,396	1.56	87.1
2067	projection	74,211,439	58.9–93.3 million	624,353	962,594	1.56	87.2
2068	projection	74,024,284	58.2–94.0 million	623,150	953,275	1.56	87.3
2069	projection	73,856,419	57.6–94.4 million	622,941	945,187	1.56	87.4
2070	projection	73,690,237	56.9–94.5 million	622,691	939,276	1.56	87.5
2071	projection	73,541,453	56.6–95.0 million	623,265	935,328	1.56	87.7
2072	projection	73,377,750	56.0–95.3 million	624,907	933,022	1.57	87.8
2073	projection	73,225,450	55.5–95.9 million	627,124	931,904	1.57	87.9
2074	projection	73,063,851	55.0–96.3 million	628,866	930,870	1.57	88.0
2075	projection	72,906,432	54.4–96.6 million	631,188	930,356	1.57	88.1
2076	projection	72,770,497	54.1–97.5 million	634,225	930,050	1.57	88.2
2077	projection	72,611,882	53.5–97.9 million	635,639	929,268	1.57	88.3
2078	projection	72,454,052	53.1–98.0 million	637,092	927,540	1.57	88.4
2079	projection	72,312,136	52.4–98.6 million	638,902	923,966	1.57	88.6
2080	projection	72,176,219	52.1–99.4 million	641,217	920,696	1.58	88.7
2081	projection	72,048,808	51.5–99.8 million	642,027	915,557	1.58	88.8
2082	projection	71,933,596	50.8–100.4 million	641,955	909,709	1.57	88.9
2083	projection	71,829,262	50.5–100.6 million	643,081	901,208	1.58	89.0
2084	projection	71,721,328	50.1–100.7 million	643,385	892,548	1.58	89.1
2085	projection	71,624,624	49.6–101.2 million	642,247	882,840	1.58	89.2
2086	projection	71,527,798	49.3–101.9 million	641,091	871,541	1.58	89.3
2087	projection	71,429,114	48.6–101.8 million	640,275	861,195	1.58	89.4
2088	projection	71,345,581	48.0–102.7 million	638,131	849,458	1.58	89.5
2089	projection	71,286,318	47.5–102.9 million	636,360	837,504	1.59	89.6
2090	projection	71,231,689	47.1–103.2 million	633,834	828,457	1.59	89.7
2091	projection	71,169,121	46.7–103.7 million	632,039	818,384	1.59	89.8
2092	projection	71,122,159	46.0–104.1 million	628,887	808,525	1.59	90.0
2093	projection	71,096,387	45.7–104.8 million	626,020	801,841	1.59	90.0
2094	projection	71,075,286	45.6–105.3 million	622,605	795,481	1.59	90.2
2095	projection	71,056,241	45.5–106.1 million	619,120	791,240	1.59	90.3
2096	projection	71,035,535	45.0–106.8 million	616,815	787,659	1.59	90.4
2097	projection	71,004,220	44.5–107.8 million	613,989	785,421	1.59	90.5
2098	projection	70,961,631	44.4–108.6 million	612,691	783,792	1.59	90.6
2099	projection	70,944,407	44.0–109.4 million	611,091	784,910	1.60	90.7
2100	projection	70,917,155	43.5–110.6 million	609,726	785,689	1.60	90.8

Show the numbers: Germany, mid-2026, by single year of age

Germany: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	357,062	338,140
1	361,914	342,976
2	366,440	347,456
3	373,798	354,528
4	396,595	376,236
5	409,184	387,874
6	408,037	386,930
7	415,557	394,676
8	421,576	400,494
9	424,585	404,101
10	419,826	398,959
11	411,002	389,371
12	400,986	379,790
13	393,856	372,464
14	389,446	368,288
15	390,046	369,304
16	393,129	371,828
17	397,880	376,420
18	405,698	383,710
19	406,204	383,057
20	409,365	386,336
21	418,262	395,366
22	422,262	398,594
23	423,915	398,336
24	432,576	403,045
25	450,696	416,186
26	467,951	425,614
27	477,356	431,516
28	492,490	446,986
29	501,124	456,310
30	494,886	452,771
31	494,548	453,954
32	505,587	467,017
33	517,024	480,814
34	530,363	495,466
35	564,174	527,334
36	584,036	547,853
37	586,256	551,533
38	586,120	551,754
39	572,218	543,050
40	556,219	532,360
41	544,781	523,777
42	541,336	523,870
43	544,998	530,601
44	545,960	536,042
45	542,586	537,554
46	529,172	525,942
47	512,244	509,402
48	507,042	503,852
49	499,733	497,595
50	488,010	486,134
51	482,692	481,860
52	484,984	486,892
53	506,516	507,691
54	550,862	550,570
55	585,220	585,212
56	616,042	615,086
57	649,118	647,962
58	667,984	669,137
59	680,702	683,688
60	685,792	689,351
61	687,397	692,702
62	683,109	692,686
63	661,236	677,060
64	636,222	659,843
65	612,686	642,239
66	586,752	619,654
67	554,226	589,921
68	523,791	562,918
69	501,339	545,745
70	476,445	527,942
71	452,232	512,628
72	428,915	496,824
73	411,718	484,326
74	398,010	473,703
75	385,549	463,482
76	370,775	448,566
77	340,298	413,434
78	305,677	376,062
79	266,716	334,746
80	223,432	288,002
81	231,988	306,210
82	252,250	337,910
83	234,770	320,732
84	235,864	333,052
85	239,882	352,492
86	218,034	333,321
87	184,524	293,479
88	149,823	248,604
89	121,476	211,056
90	97,389	177,874
91	74,356	143,342
92	50,972	104,107
93	34,542	75,744
94	25,574	60,432
95	18,912	48,060
96	13,276	36,270
97	8,778	25,753
98	5,416	17,330
99	3,113	11,252
100+	3,530	16,727

DEU · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Germany, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

DEU · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Germany

Germany had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 1997: 56,249,100 people aged 15–64, against 53,514,300 in 2023.

100 aged 15–64

22 children

36 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 35 years: 1950–1960 and 1981–2004.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

DEU · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Germany, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Germany gains 374,603 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 41,356 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 5,000 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 1,175,283 (2015) and the most it lost was 754,469 (1998).

In 2024, 16,750,084 people living in Germany had been born in another country, 20 of every 100 people there, against 9 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

DEU · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Germany

Of every 100 babies born in Germany in 2023, 1 had a mother under 20, 71 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 28 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 7 under 20 and 16 aged 35 or older.

1950
7 · 77 · 16

2023
1 · 71 · 28

2050 · projected
1 · 65 · 34

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023: 719,249
Average age when women have a baby: 31.5 years; 27.9 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 6; 29 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Germany by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	245	382	252	97	42	38
15–19	80,647	87,472	30,132	10,174	4,441	4,044
20–24	363,135	285,198	128,950	58,918	34,114	31,417
25–29	381,884	226,187	229,335	175,531	146,522	128,180
30–34	188,676	113,483	255,056	274,873	270,863	226,709
35–39	143,566	54,564	105,255	162,275	179,141	163,077
40–44	45,326	12,143	15,646	35,002	48,678	48,422
45–49	2,228	1,055	528	2,379	6,794	7,839
50–54	67	179	92	0	0	0
All babies	1,205,774	780,663	765,246	719,249	690,595	609,726

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

DEU · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Germany

In Germany, WHO puts the healthy years a newborn could expect in 2021 at 68.9 (95% range 68.1–69.8), out of 80.5 in all. That leaves 11.6 years in less than full health, more than the world's 9.5: a longer life usually brings a longer stretch of illness near its end.

Women

69.4 in full health, 13.5 not: 82.9 years

Men

68.4 in full health, 9.8 not: 78.2 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 69.4 healthy years of 82.9. Men: 68.4 of 78.2. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 69.4.

DEU · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Germany

At the end of 2025, Germany was hosting 2,952,694 people who had crossed a border into it, about 35 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad2,952,694
Germany nationals abroad953

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 50,000 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Germany living in another country, wherever they are. An outlined square means fewer people than one square stands for.

In 2025, 113,216 people asked for asylum in Germany for the first time; 293 people from Germany asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Germany whose claims were decided that year, 76 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

DEU · of every 100 people

How people live in Germany

Of every 100 people in Germany in 2025, 34 lived in a city, 39 in a town or suburb and 27 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 6.5 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person, coloured by where they live, as the key says. The same rule is used in every country.

How the world's people live

DEU · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Germany went in school

Almost every adult in Germany went to school: of every 100 in 2020, 85 finished upper secondary or went further.

3 finished primary 12 finished lower secondary 49 finished upper secondary 36 studied after school

Its people aged 15 to 64 were most numerous in 2020, the first year counted, and are never as many again in the middle projection; nor are the ones who finished upper secondary.

How to read this: every adult here as one of 100 squares. The stronger the colour, the further that person went in school (the Wittgenstein Centre, 2020).

How far the world's people went in school

DEU · cities · 2025

Cities in Germany

Germany had 100 cities in 2025, home to 29.0 million people. The largest, Berlin, holds 4 of every 100 people in Germany.

Berlin3,560,908
Essen2,717,087
Munich1,815,022
Hamburg1,759,377
Cologne1,125,292
Dusseldorf907,386
Frankfurt900,483
Stuttgart899,103
Bonn756,044
Dortmund748,106

All 19 cities in Germany that reach 300,000 people

Berlin 3,560,908
Essen 2,717,087
Munich 1,815,022
Hamburg 1,759,377
Cologne 1,125,292
Dusseldorf 907,386
Frankfurt 900,483
Stuttgart 899,103
Bonn 756,044
Dortmund 748,106
Wuppertal 662,663
Nuremberg 644,169
Hanover 611,288
Dresden 554,612
Leipzig 542,313
Mannheim 448,203
Wiesbaden 427,270
Bremen 422,414
Augsburg 344,255

How to read this: the 10 biggest cities here in 2025, drawn on a single scale so the bars can be compared. Each is a built-up area on the UN's rule rather than a city government's patch.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Germany are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.