Population — national citizens

In 2009, Germany's population decreased by 0.2% compared to 2008, reaching 74,816,435.

Germany ranks 1st out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 0.5% (from 75,188,851 in 2004).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.