The German population increased by 0.1% in 2024, as per the preliminary data released by the Federal Statistical Office on Friday, was observed a year before an increase of 0.4%.
As a result, the population for the largest economy of the European Union is now 83.6 million.
Statistics have shown that, like previous years, more people died than people born in Germany, but population growth wall immigration.
The population growth is concentrated in the western states of Germany, with an increase of 0.2%, while the eastern states recorded a decline of 0.3%, except the city-state of Berlin.
The biggest growth for a state came to Bavaria, with population number 73,000.
The largest population loss occurred in the eastern states of Thuringa (below 15,000 or 0.7%), Saxoni (12,000 or 0.3%below), and Saxony-Enahalt (9,000 or 0.4%below).
Mainly due to aging of baby boomers generation, the number of people above 60 to 79 increased 2.2%. The 80-and-over population increased slightly by 0.2%.
By the end of 2024, Germany’s 30.5% of the population was 60 or older.
The number of foreign nationals living in Germany increased from 2.3% to 12.4 million in 2024, with the largest diaspora Türkiye National (1,403 million). The next largest migrant in Germany is, according to initial data, Ukrainian is a migrant (1,085 million), followed by Syria (889,000), Romania (771,000) and Poland (723,000).
