This statistic shows the degree of urbanization in Germany from 2013 to 2023. Urbanization means the share of urban population in the total population of a country. In 2023, 77.77 percent of Germany's total population lived in urban areas and cities. Urbanization in Germany Currently, about three quarter of the German population live in urban areas and cities, which is more than in most nations around the world. Urbanization, as it can be seen in this graph, refers to the number of people living in an urban area and has nothing to do with the actual geographical size or footprint of an area or country. A country which is significantly bigger than Germany could have a similar degree of urbanization, just because not all areas in the country are inhabitable, for example. One example for this is Russia, where urbanization has reached comparable figures to Germany, even though its geographical size is significantly bigger. However, Germany’s level of urbanization does not make the list of the top 30 most urbanized nations in the world, where urbanization rates are higher than 83 percent. Also, while 25 percent of the population in Germany still lives in rural areas, rural livelihoods are not dependent on agriculture, as only 0.75 percent of GDP came from the agricultural sector in 2014. So while Germany's urbanization rate is growing, a significant percentage of the population is still living in rural areas. Furthermore, Germany has a number of shrinking cities which are located to the east and in older industrial regions around the country. Considering that population growth in Germany is on the decline, because of low fertility rates, and that a number of cities are shrinking, the urban population is likely shifting to bigger cities which have more economic opportunities than smaller ones.

Germany DE: Population in Largest City data was reported at 3,576,873.000 Person in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 3,573,938.000 Person for 2023. Germany DE: Population in Largest City data is updated yearly, averaging 3,388,441.000 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2024, with 65 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3,576,873.000 Person in 2024 and a record low of 3,041,327.000 Person in 1983. Germany DE: Population in Largest City data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the urban population living in the country's largest metropolitan area.;United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.;;

Population in largest city in Germany was reported at 3576873 in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Germany - Population in largest city - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.

In 2025, Moscow was the largest city in Europe with an estimated urban agglomeration of 12.74 million people. The French capital, Paris, was the second largest city in 2025 at 11.35 million, followed by the capitals of the United Kingdom and Spain, with London at 9.84 million and Madrid at 6.81 million people. Istanbul, which would otherwise be the largest city in Europe in 2025, is excluded as it is only partially in Europe, with a sizeable part of its population living in Asia. Europe’s population is almost 750 million Since 1950, the population of Europe has increased by approximately 200 million people, increasing from 550 million to 750 million in these seventy years. Before the turn of the millennium, Europe was the second-most populated continent, before it was overtaken by Africa, which saw its population increase from 228 million in 1950 to 817 million by 2000. Asia has consistently had the largest population of the world’s continents and was estimated to have a population of 4.6 billion. Europe’s largest countries Including its territory in Asia, Russia is by far the largest country in the world, with a territory of around 17 million square kilometers, almost double that of the next largest country, Canada. Within Europe, Russia also has the continent's largest population at 145 million, followed by Germany at 83 million and the United Kingdom at almost 68 million. By contrast, Europe is also home to various micro-states such as San Marino, which has a population of just 30 thousand.

Population in the largest city (% of urban population) in Germany was reported at 5.5351 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Germany - Population in the largest city - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.

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DE: Population: Female: Ages 55-59: % of Female Population data was reported at 8.040 % in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 8.100 % for 2022. DE: Population: Female: Ages 55-59: % of Female Population data is updated yearly, averaging 6.487 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2023, with 64 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 8.100 % in 2022 and a record low of 4.372 % in 1974. DE: Population: Female: Ages 55-59: % of Female Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Female population between the ages 55 to 59 as a percentage of the total female population.;United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2022 Revision.;;

The largest age groups among Berlin’s residential population were aged 25-39 and 40-59 years. The latter was actually the most represented age group in the German capital. The age group with the least number of residents were babies aged younger than one year. Slowly growing population Berlin’s residential population has been growing in recent years, though at a slow pace. Generally, the urban population in Germany has been increasing, with over 77 percent living in cities. Berlin does not have the most expensive rent space in Germany, compared to Munich in the south or Frankfurt in central Germany, which could be a draw for younger age groups moving to the capital. On the other hand, just as in the rest of the country, the city’s age group structure is affected by a struggling birth rate. Uncertain future Based on recent figures, Berlin’s total population was almost at four million. Germany’s population count currently stands at almost 84.5 million and is forecast to decrease rather than increase in the 2020s.

This statistic shows the size of the urban and rural populations of Germany between 1960 and 2022. Over the years recorded here, the urban population of Germany has increased, while the rural population has declined. The population of Germany has remained at approximately 82 million during this period.

DE: Population: Female: Ages 50-54: % of Female Population data was reported at 7.129 % in 2022. This records a decrease from the previous number of 7.471 % for 2021. DE: Population: Female: Ages 50-54: % of Female Population data is updated yearly, averaging 6.599 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2022, with 63 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 8.282 % in 2016 and a record low of 4.536 % in 1969. DE: Population: Female: Ages 50-54: % of Female Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Female population between the ages 50 to 54 as a percentage of the total female population.;United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2022 Revision.;;

Chart and table of population level and growth rate for the Hamburg, Germany metro area from 1950 to 2025.

Social and economic figures for 67 large West German cities. The data aggregated at city level have been collected for most topics over several years, but not necessarily over the entire reference time period.

Topics: 1. Situation of the city: surface area of the city; fringe location in the Federal Republic.

1. Residential population: total residential population; German and foreign residential population.

2. Population movement:live births; deaths; influx; departures; birth rate; death rate; population shifts; divorce rate; migration rate; illegitimate births.

3. Education figures: school degrees; occupational degrees; university degrees.

4. Wage and income: number of taxpayers in the various tax classes as well as municipality income tax revenue in the respective classes; calculated income figures, such as e.g. inequality of income distribution, mean income or mean wage of employees as well as standard deviation of these figures; GINI index.

5. Gross domestic product and gross product: gross product altogether; gross product organized according to area of business; gross domestic product; employees in the economic sectors.

6. Taxes and debts: debt per resident; income tax and business tax to which the municipality is entitled; municipality tax potential and indicators for municipality economic strength.

7. Debt repayment and management expenditures: debt repayment, interest expenditures, management expenditures and personnel expenditures.

8. From the ´BUNTE´ City Test of 1979 based on 100 respondents per city averages of satisfaction were calculated. satisfaction with: central location of the city, the number of green areas, historical buildings, the number of high-rises, the variety of the citizens, openness to the world, the dialect spoken, the sociability, the density of the traffic network, the OEPNV prices {local public passenger transport}, the supply of public transportation, provision with culture, the selection for consumers, the climate, clean air, noise pollution, the leisure selection, real estate prices, the supply of residences, one´s own payment, the job market selection, the distance from work, the number of one´s friends, contact opportunities, receptiveness of the neighbors, local recreational areas, sport opportunities and the selection of further education possibilities.

9. Traffic and economy: airport and Intercity connection; number of kilometers of subway available, kilometers of streetcar, and kilometers of bus lines per resident; car rate; index of traffic quality; commuters; property prices; prices for one´s own home; purchasing power.

10. Crime: recorded total crime and classification according to armed robbery, theft from living-rooms, of automobiles as well as from motor vehicles, robberies and purse snatching; classification according to young or adult suspects with these crimes; crime stress figures. 12. Welfare: welfare recipients and social expenditures; proportion of welfare recipients in the total population and classification according to German and foreign recipients; aid with livelihood; expenditures according to the youth welfare law; kindergarten openings; culture expenditures per resident. 13. Foreigners: proportion of foreigners in the residential population.

11. Students: number of German students and total number of students; proportion of students in the residential population.

12. Unemployed: unemployment rate; unemployed according to employment office districts and employment office departments.

13. Places of work: workers employed in companies, organized according to area of business.

14. Government employees: full-time, part-time and total government employees of federal government, states and municipalities as well as differentiated according to workers, employees, civil servants and judges.

15. Employees covered by social security according to education and branch of economy: proportion of various education levels in the individual branches of the economy.

DE: Population: Female: Aged 65 and Above data was reported at 10,581,997.000 Person in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 10,513,306.000 Person for 2022. DE: Population: Female: Aged 65 and Above data is updated yearly, averaging 7,917,350.000 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2023, with 64 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 10,581,997.000 Person in 2023 and a record low of 5,001,216.000 Person in 1960. DE: Population: Female: Aged 65 and Above data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Female population 65 years of age or older. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.;World Bank staff estimates using the World Bank's total population and age/sex distributions of the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision.;Sum;Relevance to gender indicator: Knowing how many girls, adolescents and women there are in a population helps a country in determining its provision of services.

Among all 16 German federal states, Saxony-Anhalt has the highest share of population members aged 65 years and older, at around 27.8 percent. Thuringia and Saxony followed, with shares of 27.4 and 26.8 percent. The indicator provides information on the development of the proportion of the working-age population in the total population.

Germany DE: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data was reported at 5.535 % in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 5.519 % for 2023. Germany DE: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data is updated yearly, averaging 5.542 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2024, with 65 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 6.272 % in 1960 and a record low of 5.323 % in 1982. Germany DE: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the percentage of a country's urban population living in that country's largest metropolitan area.;United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.;Weighted average;

Chart and table of population level and growth rate for the Westfalen, Germany metro area from 1950 to 2025.

The work of Kraus represents a collection of material on population, on population movement and on population structure according to age and sex. The study is subdivided into the individual member states of the German Confederation on the area of the future German Reich, the provinces of Prussia as well as the German Reich in total. The values to the variables inhabitants, marriages, number of births, number of deaths without stillborn ones, number of deaths are to be found in the a-tables. The number of inhabitants according to sex and the age groups of the inhabitants according to sex are to be found in the b-tables. A- and b-tables both contain absolute and relative numbers. Subjects: Tables in the ZA-Online-Database HISTAT: Tables of Population figure and population movement and tables of the distribution by age and sex for the German countries: - Kingdom of Wuerttemberg (Königreich Württemberg) (1815-1875)- Grand Duchy Baden (Großherzogtum Baden) (1815-1875)- Duchy of Braunschweig (Herzogtum Braunschweig) (1816-1875)- Kingdom of Saxony (Königreich Sachsen) (1815-1875)- Grand Duchy of Hesse (Großherzogtum Hessen) (1815-1875)- Kongdom of Bavaria (Königreich Bayern (mit Pfalz)) (Population figure and -movement: 1816-1875; Distribution by age and sex: 1834-1875)- Bavaria to the west of the Rhine: Palatinate (Pfalz) (1818-1875)- Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, including the principality of Ratzeburg (Großherzogtum Mecklenburg-Strelitz, einschließlich des Fürstentums Ratzeburg) (1815-1875)- Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Großherzogtum Mecklenburg-Schwerin) (1815-1875)- Grand Duchy of Oldenburg (Großherzogtum Oldenburg) (1855-1875)- Kingdom of Hannover, since 1966 prussian province (Königreich Hannover, ab 1866 preußische Provinz Hannover) (1815-1875)- The various prussian administrative districts and provinces (1815-1875)- The Free Hanseatic Cities Hamburg, Luebeck and Bremen Tables of Population figure and population movement- The German Empire without Alsace-Lorraine (Deutsches Reich (ohne Elsaß-Lothringen)) (1841-1875)- The German Empire with Alsace-Lorraine (Deutsches Reich (mit Elsaß-Lothringen)) (1840-1875)- Alsace-Lorraine (Elsaß-Lothringen) (1821-1875)

This horizontal bar chart displays urban population (people) by capital city using the aggregation sum in Germany. The data is filtered where the date is 2021. The data is about countries per year.

This statistic shows the results of a survey on the internet usage in Germany in 2021, broken down by size of city. During the survey period it was found that cities with a population below 20,000 inhabitants had an internet user share of 90 percent.

In 2023, 23.3 percent of Berlin's population were foreigners. Therefore, among all German federal states, Berlin had the highest foreigner share, followed by Bremen and Hamburg. On the other side of the spectrum, only seven percent of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania were non-Germans.