Population — national citizens

In 2022, Germany's population decreased by 0.3% compared to 2021, reaching 72,344,071.

Germany accounts for 17.7% of the EU-27 total of 408,287,841.

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 73,301,664 in 2017).

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