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Date: June 20, 2025 Population by nationality and federal states

Tables on the subject: Population as of 31.12.2024 by nationality and federal states.

Press release No. 258 of 16 July 2025 Mortality figures in 2^nd quarter of 2025 below median values of previous years

Approximately 236,000 people died in Germany in the 2^nd quarter of 2025, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). Consequently, death figures in all three months were lower than the median values of the four …

Date: July 1, 2025 Live births by citizenship of mother

Table on the subject: Live births by citizenship of mother

Date: June 30, 2025 Persons seeking protection by protection status and reference year

Table on the subject: Persons seeking protection, by protection status, 2007 to 2024.

Date: May 19, 2025 Couples with and without children

Tables on the subject: This table contains information on couples with and without children in eastern, western and all of Germany in 2024

Date: May 19, 2025 Families and family members with minor children living in the family

Tables on the subject: This table contains information on families and family members in eastern, western and all of Germany in 2024

Date: May 19, 2025 Unattached people (including people living alone)

Tables on the subject: This table contains information on unattached people, by age, in eastern, western and all of Germany in 2024, including people living alone.

Date: August 21, 2024 Life Expectancy

Table on the subject: Trends in Life Expectancy by Länder Lifetable 2021/2023

Press release No. 145 of 15 April 2025 Flu wave has strong influence on death figures in 1^st quarter of 2025

...282,290 people died in Germany in the 1st quarter of 2025, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). Mortality figures had exceeded the median of the four previous years since the end of January 2025, which coincided with a comparatively high incidence of respiratory diseases (only in German) ("flu wave"). ...

Date: June 14, 2024 Population by nationaly and federal states

Tables on the subject: Population as of 31.12.2023 by nationaly and federal states.

Date: February 25, 2025 Migration (internal migration, external migration, total migration) - 2023

...Pursuant to § 4 of the Population Statistics Act, the following variables are continuously covered for migration  statistics:  - day of moving into the new dwelling or moving out of the old dwelling (event date)  - housing status (main or second residence)  - old and new municipality of residence  - for migration moves across the German border: country of origin or destination  - sex, day of birth, marital status  - legal affiliation or non-affiliation to a religious community under public law  - citizenship  - place and country of birth (from August 2008)  - for arrivals from abroad: day of preceding departure from Germany to another country (from August 2008)  - for departures to another country: day of preceding arrival from abroad in Germany (from 2014)  - the fact of ex officio registration or deregistration (since 2014)...

Press release No. 017 of 14 January 2025 1.0 million deaths in 2024

In 2024, slightly more than 1.0 million people died in Germany, according to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). The number of deaths therefore decreased by 2.5%, or roughly 25,500, compared with the previous year.

Press release No. 465 of 10 December 2024 Mortality figures in November 2024: 3% below the median of previous years

...86,291 people died in Germany in November 2024, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This was 3% below the median of the years 2020 to 2023 for that month. An examination of individual calendar weeks reveals that the figures in November were consistently 3% to 7% below the median of the four previous years. ...

Press release No. 424 of 12 November 2024 Mortality figures in October 2024 around the median of the previous years, at +2%

...86,482 people died in Germany in October 2024, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This corresponds roughly to the 2020 to 2023 median for that month (+2%). An examination of individual calendar weeks reveals that the figures in the first weeks of October exceeded the corresponding comparative value by up to 5%, while they were up to 6% lower than the comparative value towards the end of the month....

Press release No. 395 of 15 October 2024 Mortality figures in September 2024 around the median of the previous years, at +2%

...78,278 people died in Germany in September 2024, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This corresponds roughly to the 2020 to 2023 median for that month (+2%). An examination of individual calendar weeks reveals that the figures were around or below the corresponding comparative value in the first half of the month, and slightly above it in the second half of the month (+5% and +3% in Weeks 38 and 39, from 16 to 29 September)....

Press release No. 341 of 10 September 2024 Mortality figures in August 2024 around the median of the previous years, at +2%

...79,975 people died in Germany in August 2024, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This corresponds roughly to the 2020 to 2023 median for that month (+2%). Coinciding with heat spikes in large parts of the country (only in German), the number of deaths in the last week of August (Week 35, from 26 August to 1 September) significantly exceeded the corresponding comparative value, however (+9%). ...

Press release No. 309 of 13 August 2024 Mortality figures in July 2024: 4% above the median of previous years

...Germany's National Meteorological Service (DWD), too, registered several hot spells in July. An increase in mortality figures in connection with exposure to heat is a well-known effect that has been frequently observed in summer months in the past (only in German)....

Press release No. 274 of 17 July 2024 Fertility rate down to 1.35 children per woman in 2023

...692,989 babies were born in Germany in 2023. This represented a drop of 45,830, or 6%, compared with 2022 (738,819 newborns). 2013 was the last year in which fewer children (682,069) were born in Germany than in 2023. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the total fertility rate, often referred to as birth rate, fell by 7% from 1.46 to 1.35 children per woman in 2023 from a year earlier. ...

Press release No. 264 of 9 July 2024 Mortality figures in June 2024 around the median of the previous years

...77,812 people died in Germany in June 2024, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This corresponds roughly to the 2020 to 2023 median for that month (+1%). In the first half of the month, mortality figures were slightly below the median values of the previous years (-1% and -2% in Weeks 23 and 24, from 3 to 16 June). ...

Press release No. 235 of 20 June 2023 Germany's population grew by 1.3% in 2022

...Germany's population grew by 1.3% (+1,122,000 people) in 2022, after a small increase of only 0.1% in the previous year (+82,000 people). A good 84.4 million people were living in Germany at the end of 2022, according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). ...

Press release No. 226 of 11 June 2024 Mortality figures in May 2024: 1% below the median of previous years

...80,643 people died in Germany in May 2024, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This was 1% below the median of the years 2020 to 2023 for that month. After the seasonal flu wave abated in March 2024, mortality figures initially fell below the median values of the four previous years, in which higher death figures had been reported in some of the spring months during Covid-19 waves. ...

Press release No. 191 of 14 May 2024 Mortality figures in April 2024: 6% below the median of previous years

...79,206 people died in Germany in April 2024, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This was 6% below the median of the years 2020 to 2023 for that month. In February 2024, death figures were still above the median of the previous years. ...

Date: July 6, 2022 Interactive grid map on "Experimental georeferenced population figure"

...In a distribution procedure, the results of intercensal population updates were redistributed at the municipality level to a 1x1 km grid for the whole of Germany by means of mobile network data....

Press release No. 145 of 9 April 2024 Mortality figures in March 2024: 8% below the median of previous years

...83,263 people died in Germany in March 2024, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This was 8% below the median of the years 2020 to 2023 for that month. In February 2024, death figures were still above the median of the previous years. ...

Press release No. 095 of 12 March 2024 Mortality figures in February 2024 above the median of previous years

...87,435 people died in Germany in February 2024, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This was 6% above the median of the years 2020 to 2023 for that month. When the leap day in February 2024 is excluded, the mortality figures were roughly 3% higher than the median of the previous years. ...

Date: June 27, 2024 Marriages, divorces

Table on the subjcet: Marriages, divorces. Long term series with annual data from 1950.

Press release No. 251 of 20 June 2022 Germany's population grew slightly in 2021

...Germany’s population rose by 0.1%, or 82,000 people in 2021 after having remained almost unchanged a year earlier (-12,000 people). The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports on the basis of intercensal population updates that just over 83.2 million people were living in Germany at the end of 2021, more than before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2019. ...

Press release No. 080 of 2 March 2023 17.3% of Germany's population has immigrated since 1950

...Another 4.7 million people (5.7%) were direct descendants of immigrants. These people were born in Germany but both their parents had immigrated to Germany since 1950....

Press release No. 055 of 13 February 2024 Mortality figures in January 2024 close to the median of the previous years, at +1%

...95,206 people died in Germany in January 2024, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This corresponds roughly to the 2020 to 2023 median for that month (+1%). An examination of individual calendar weeks reveals that the figures were below the corresponding comparative value in the first half of the month (-7% and -2% in Weeks 1 and 2), and above it in the second half of the month (+4% and +7% in Weeks 3 and 4). ...

Date: December 5, 2023 Professionals from abroad - stay rates of international students and people with a Blue Card

...The methodology enables analyses which show, for example, the numbers of international students who continue to live in Germany after five and ten years. A period of five years is examined in the case of professionals with a Blue Card. Authors: Sarah Weißmann, Jan Eberle Article published in "WISTA – Scientific Journal", 4/2023...