Population — national citizens

In 2017, Germany's population decreased by 0.3% compared to 2016, reaching 73,301,664.

Germany accounts for 17.8% of the EU-27 total of 412,331,382.

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 0.9% (from 73,985,506 in 2012).

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