Population — national citizens

In 2012, Germany's population decreased by 0.2% compared to 2011, reaching 73,985,506.

Germany ranks 1st out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 1.4% (from 75,058,957 in 2007).

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