In 2024, the most populated federal state in Germany is North Rhine-Westphalia in the west, with a population of almost 18 million. The state capital is Düsseldorf. Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in the south rounded up the top three, both with over 10 million inhabitants.

The German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia accounted the largest electricity generating capacity in the country in 2024, with a capacity of approximately 44 gigawatts. The two largest federal states in Germany, Bavaria and Lower Saxony, followed with 39.7 and 29.8 gigawatts of power generating capacity, respectively. By comparison, the two smallest federal states in the country, Bremen and Hamburg, had a capacity of 1.3 and 0.7 gigawatts that year.

In 2025 thus far, the highest number of asylum applications were recorded in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia at 6,768. Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg were among the leading three German states recording the largest asylum application numbers. The number of pending asylum applications had increased compared to the pandemic years, though numbers were not as high as in 2015 and 2016.

This statistic shows the number of foreigners in Germany according to the Central Register of Foreign Nationals in 2023, by state. In 2023, North-Rhine-Westphalia had the most foreign nationals at over 3.2 million, followed by Bavaria with almost 2.4 million and Baden-Württemberg with around 2.2 million. Foreigners are those who are not German based on Article 116, Paragraph 1 of the German constitution. These include stateless persons and those with unclear citizenship as well as the population group with a migration background. Individuals with a migration background can either have immigrated into Germany or been born in the country to at least one parent who was born a foreigner.

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.

As of July 2021, over 11,500 open accommodation establishments were counted in Bavaria. This means that Germany's largest federal state had the most accommodation establishments nationwide. The federal state of Baden-Württemberg followed with around 6,160 open accommodation establishments.

In 2024, North Rhine-Westphalia had the most passenger cars with electric drive in Germany, at over 306,000. Other German states with high numbers included Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

Among all 16 German federal states, the city-state Hamburg in the north has the highest share of population members aged 15 to 64 years, with a share of 67.7 percent. Berlin, also a city-state, followed and the southern German state of Bavaria took the third place. This indicator provides information on the development of the proportion of the working-age population in the total population.

The largest number of motorcycles in Germany in 2024 could be found in the south-eastern state Bavaria, where just under 1.1 million motorcycles were registered. The most populous state in Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia had the second-largest motorcycle fleet of just over 936,000.

In 2023, the German state of Bavaria recorded the highest per capita purchasing power at ****** euros. Hamburg and Baden-Württemberg in the south rounded up the top three. According to the source, purchasing power refers to disposable income (net income without taxes and social security payments, including received transfer payments) of the population in a certain region. In recent years, Germany saw a varying disparity between disposable income and consumer spending in private households.

This data shows the distribution of beer sales in Germany in 2022 and 2022, by state. In 2023, around 1.3 million hectoliters of beer were sold in Hesse, while in Bavaria sales amounted to roughly 17.6 million hectoliters.

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.

In 2022, the crime clearance rate was highest in Bavaria at almost 68 percent. Other German federal states with high rates included Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse.

In 2023, the two largest cities in Germany, Berlin and Hamburg, had a housing shortage. That means that there were less housing units added to the stock than new households formed in those city-states. The southern states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg had the largest housing shortage between 2021 and 2023.

Based on preliminary figures from 2023, Bavaria recorded 116,505 births. This was an increase from 109,562 births ten years earlier. The state that recorded the highest number of births was North Rhine-Westphalia.

Between 2020 and 202 state elections took place in Germany in each of the 16 individual federal states. In the most recent state election in Brandenburg, the AfD received 29.2 percent of votes. The AfD received the smallest share of votes in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, at only 4.4 percent. It was especially popular in the eastern states of Germany such as Saxony, where it received 30.6 percent of votes, the highest share in any state.

The coronavirus (COVID-19) has affected every federal state in Germany. Currently, as of January 2023, North Rhine-Westphalia has reported the highest number of cases of illness, followed by Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. For more statistical data and facts, visit our Statista page about the coronavirus.

In 2023, there were 6,169 onshore wind turbines in Lower Saxony, which was the German federal state with the highest number of onshore wind turbines. Hamburg, one of Germany's city-states, had 68.

This statistic shows the number of Green Party members in Germany for the year 2021, by federal state. In 2021, the Greens had the fewest members in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania at 1,243 and the highest amount in North Rhine-Westphalia at 25,921.

This statistic illustrates the ownership rate of residential property in Germany as of 2013, by federal state. It can be seen that the largest ownership rate in Germany was found in Saarland at that time, with property ownership standing at 63 percent.