Population — national citizens

In 2016, Germany's population decreased by 0.2% compared to 2015, reaching 73,523,726.

Germany accounts for 17.8% of the EU-27 total of 412,714,600.

Germany ranks 1st out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 0.8% (from 74,114,849 in 2011).

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