Population — national citizens

In 2020, Germany's population decreased by 0.2% compared to 2019, reaching 72,768,689.

Germany accounts for 17.7% of the EU-27 total of 410,499,424.

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 1.2% (from 73,657,763 in 2015).

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