Population — national citizens

In 2021, Germany's population decreased by 0.3% compared to 2020, reaching 72,569,978.

Germany accounts for 17.8% of the EU-27 total of 408,574,754.

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 1.3% (from 73,523,726 in 2016).

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