Population — national citizens

In 2019, Germany's population decreased by 0.3% compared to 2018, reaching 72,929,921.

Germany accounts for 17.7% of the EU-27 total of 411,073,307.

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 1.1% (from 73,752,227 in 2014).

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