Population (total, 1 January)

In 2016, Germany's population (total, 1 january) increased by 1.2% compared to 2015, reaching 82,175,684.

Germany accounts for 18.5% of the EU-27 total of 444,003,268.

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 grown by 2.4% (from 80,222,065 in 2011).

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