Germany vs United Kingdom statistics compared

Germany has a population of 83.5M (ranked 19/197), compared with 69.2M in The United Kingdom (ranked 21/197). Germany's land area is 134,916 sq mi versus 93,410 sq mi for The United Kingdom (ranked 63rd vs. 78th).

By GDP, Germany ranks 3/197 ($4.69T) and The United Kingdom ranks 6/197 ($3.69T). By GDP per capita, Germany ranks 19/197 ($56,104), while The United Kingdom ranks 22/197 ($53,246).

Germany and United Kingdom: Comparison Charts

Germany and United Kingdom economies compared

GDP

Germany

United Kingdom

Table

Year	GDP
	Germany	United Kingdom
1960	$84,619,845,881	$73,233,967,692
1961	$96,558,204,043	$77,741,965,703
1962	$105,895,435,234	$81,247,564,157
1963	$112,232,503,744	$86,561,961,812
1964	$123,330,404,665	$94,407,558,351
1965	$134,774,688,191	$101,824,755,079
1966	$143,304,275,684	$108,572,752,102
1967	$145,100,667,773	$113,116,888,211
1968	$156,527,292,653	$107,759,910,068
1969	$177,733,486,326	$116,464,702,803
1970	$216,629,229,947	$130,671,946,244
1971	$250,900,942,397	$148,113,896,325
1972	$300,899,944,795	$169,965,034,965
1973	$399,833,571,167	$192,537,971,583
1974	$446,934,971,657	$206,131,369,799
1975	$492,434,094,920	$241,756,637,168
1976	$521,658,712,133	$232,614,555,256
1977	$602,698,323,086	$263,066,457,352
1978	$743,182,891,918	$335,883,029,722
1979	$884,574,218,333	$438,994,070,309
1980	$953,772,499,462	$564,947,710,899
1981	$803,404,797,058	$540,765,675,241
1982	$779,421,633,755	$515,048,916,841
1983	$773,507,930,295	$489,618,008,186
1984	$727,767,760,979	$461,487,097,632
1985	$735,218,723,093	$489,285,164,271
1986	$1,050,092,624,516	$601,452,653,181
1987	$1,302,932,318,825	$745,162,608,269
1988	$1,406,367,016,372	$910,122,732,124
1989	$1,404,092,925,205	$926,884,816,754
1990	$1,778,162,195,860	$1,093,169,389,205
1991	$1,875,792,575,133	$1,142,797,178,131
1992	$2,141,377,582,968	$1,179,659,529,660
1993	$2,078,954,217,438	$1,061,388,722,256
1994	$2,215,282,632,277	$1,140,489,745,944
1995	$2,593,053,091,306	$1,349,094,208,616
1996	$2,506,576,553,158	$1,425,287,051,482
1997	$2,218,790,886,533	$1,569,317,288,802
1998	$2,247,760,364,566	$1,660,821,464,061
1999	$2,213,873,468,587	$1,693,458,987,219
2000	$1,966,980,701,145	$1,671,597,821,153
2001	$1,966,381,496,642	$1,656,171,009,069
2002	$2,102,350,798,306	$1,790,536,570,743
2003	$2,534,715,518,349	$2,061,227,755,102
2004	$2,852,317,768,062	$2,429,774,807,763
2005	$2,893,393,187,362	$2,551,361,818,182
2006	$3,046,308,753,671	$2,719,558,417,663
2007	$3,484,056,680,855	$3,104,699,879,952
2008	$3,808,197,720,125	$2,945,251,838,235
2009	$3,478,545,516,684	$2,429,358,155,476
2010	$3,467,093,769,667	$2,496,740,681,057
2011	$3,823,575,803,794	$2,675,590,034,129
2012	$3,596,483,233,406	$2,719,715,961,540
2013	$3,807,023,797,051	$2,796,908,333,283
2014	$3,964,870,735,761	$3,085,362,169,410
2015	$3,425,099,578,746	$2,945,579,890,258
2016	$3,536,787,895,179	$2,706,807,606,539
2017	$3,765,351,626,106	$2,699,118,387,873
2018	$4,055,433,215,302	$2,897,028,009,916
2019	$3,959,894,794,039	$2,875,710,080,015
2020	$3,941,398,957,074	$2,724,001,478,305
2021	$4,355,251,953,411	$3,194,559,188,926
2022	$4,201,021,706,479	$3,181,244,350,465
2023	$4,562,207,532,490	$3,420,796,653,789
2024	$4,685,592,577,805	$3,686,033,044,482

Germany and United Kingdom economies compared

GDP per capita

Germany

United Kingdom

Table

Year	GDP per capita
	Germany	United Kingdom
1960	$1,162	$1,398
1961	$1,316	$1,472
1962	$1,431	$1,526
1963	$1,502	$1,613
1964	$1,637	$1,748
1965	$1,774	$1,874
1966	$1,871	$1,987
1967	$1,886	$2,059
1968	$2,025	$1,952
1969	$2,281	$2,101
1970	$2,771	$2,348
1971	$3,204	$2,650
1972	$3,824	$3,030
1973	$5,065	$3,426
1974	$5,660	$3,666
1975	$6,259	$4,300
1976	$6,659	$4,138
1977	$7,711	$4,681
1978	$9,517	$5,977
1979	$11,322	$7,805
1980	$12,183	$10,032
1981	$10,246	$9,599
1982	$9,950	$9,146
1983	$9,900	$8,692
1984	$9,347	$8,179
1985	$9,464	$8,652
1986	$13,511	$10,611
1987	$16,739	$13,119
1988	$17,997	$15,987
1989	$17,829	$16,239
1990	$22,386	$19,095
1991	$23,443	$19,901
1992	$26,560	$20,487
1993	$25,617	$18,389
1994	$27,202	$19,709
1995	$31,747	$23,253
1996	$30,600	$24,503
1997	$27,047	$26,910
1998	$27,396	$28,396
1999	$26,965	$28,858
2000	$23,926	$28,384
2001	$23,878	$28,014
2002	$25,487	$30,159
2003	$30,711	$34,557
2004	$34,567	$40,504
2005	$35,084	$42,240
2006	$36,980	$44,695
2007	$42,351	$50,629
2008	$46,379	$47,652
2009	$42,472	$39,009
2010	$42,397	$39,778
2011	$47,631	$42,296
2012	$44,718	$42,688
2013	$47,207	$43,607
2014	$48,960	$47,746
2015	$41,930	$45,255
2016	$42,949	$41,258
2017	$45,554	$40,917
2018	$48,916	$43,703
2019	$47,656	$43,159
2020	$47,395	$40,813
2021	$52,349	$47,691
2022	$50,507	$47,057
2023	$54,777	$49,944
2024	$56,104	$53,246

Germany vs. United Kingdom life expectancy calculator

Life expectancy

Germany

United Kingdom

Table

Year	Life expectancy, years
	Germany	United Kingdom
1950	66.8	68.6
1951	67.1	68.2
1952	67.5	69.5
1953	67.8	69.8
1954	68.1	70.2
1955	68.3	70.1
1956	68.6	70.4
1957	68.5	70.5
1958	69.2	70.7
1959	69.3	70.8
1960	69.3	71
1961	69.8	70.8
1962	70	70.9
1963	70.1	70.8
1964	70.6	71.5
1965	70.6	71.5
1966	70.7	71.4
1967	71	72.1
1968	70.6	71.7
1969	70.5	71.7
1970	70.7	71.9
1971	70.9	72.2
1972	71.1	72
1973	71.4	72.2
1974	71.7	72.4
1975	71.5	72.7
1976	72	72.6
1977	72.6	73.1
1978	72.6	73
1979	72.9	73.2
1980	73.1	73.6
1981	73.3	73.9
1982	73.6	74
1983	73.9	74.3
1984	74.4	74.7
1985	74.5	74.5
1986	74.7	74.8
1987	75.1	75.1
1988	75.3	75.3
1989	75.5	75.4
1990	75.3	75.7
1991	75.6	75.9
1992	76	76.3
1993	76.1	76.2
1994	76.4	76.7
1995	76.6	76.6
1996	76.8	76.9
1997	77.2	77.1
1998	77.6	77.3
1999	77.8	77.4
2000	78.1	77.8
2001	78.4	78.1
2002	78.5	78.2
2003	78.5	78.3
2004	79.1	78.9
2005	79.3	79.1
2006	79.6	79.3
2007	79.7	79.5
2008	79.8	79.7
2009	79.9	80.2
2010	80.1	80.4
2011	80.4	80.8
2012	80.5	80.9
2013	80.5	80.9
2014	80.9	81.2
2015	80.6	80.9
2016	80.8	81.1
2017	80.9	81.2
2018	80.9	81.1
2019	81.2	81.4
2020	81	80.4
2021	81.1	80.7
2022	80.6	81.1
2023	81.4	81.3
2024	81.5	81.4
2025	81.7	81.6
2026	81.9	81.7

Germany and United Kingdom population clocks and comparison

Population

Germany

United Kingdom

Table

Year	Population
	Germany	United Kingdom
1960	72,814,900	52,400,000
1961	73,377,632	52,800,000
1962	74,025,784	53,250,000
1963	74,714,353	53,650,000
1964	75,318,337	54,000,000
1965	75,963,695	54,348,050
1966	76,600,311	54,648,500
1967	76,951,336	54,943,600
1968	77,294,314	55,211,700
1969	77,909,682	55,441,750
1970	78,169,289	55,663,250
1971	78,312,842	55,896,223
1972	78,688,452	56,086,065
1973	78,936,666	56,194,527
1974	78,967,433	56,229,974
1975	78,673,554	56,225,800
1976	78,336,950	56,211,968
1977	78,159,814	56,193,492
1978	78,091,820	56,196,504
1979	78,126,350	56,246,951
1980	78,288,576	56,314,216
1981	78,407,907	56,333,829
1982	78,333,366	56,313,641
1983	78,128,282	56,332,848
1984	77,858,685	56,422,072
1985	77,684,873	56,550,268
1986	77,720,436	56,681,396
1987	77,839,920	56,802,050
1988	78,144,619	56,928,327
1989	78,751,283	57,076,711
1990	79,433,029	57,247,586
1991	80,013,896	57,424,897
1992	80,624,598	57,580,402
1993	81,156,363	57,718,614
1994	81,438,348	57,865,745
1995	81,678,051	58,019,030
1996	81,914,831	58,166,950
1997	82,034,771	58,316,954
1998	82,047,195	58,487,141
1999	82,100,243	58,682,466
2000	82,211,508	58,892,514
2001	82,349,925	59,119,673
2002	82,488,495	59,370,479
2003	82,534,176	59,647,577
2004	82,516,260	59,987,905
2005	82,469,422	60,401,206
2006	82,376,451	60,846,820
2007	82,266,372	61,322,463
2008	82,110,097	61,806,995
2009	81,902,307	62,276,270
2010	81,776,930	62,766,365
2011	80,274,983	63,258,810
2012	80,425,823	63,711,000
2013	80,645,605	64,139,000
2014	80,982,500	64,620,000
2015	81,686,611	65,088,000
2016	82,348,669	65,607,000
2017	82,657,002	65,966,000
2018	82,905,782	66,289,000
2019	83,092,962	66,631,000
2020	83,160,871	66,744,000
2021	83,196,078	66,984,000
2022	83,177,813	67,604,000
2023	83,287,273	68,492,000
2024	83,516,593	69,226,000

Fertility rates in Germany and United Kingdom

Fertility rate

Germany

United Kingdom

Table

Year	Fertility rate
	Germany	United Kingdom
1960	2.37	2.69
1961	2.45	2.78
1962	2.44	2.86
1963	2.51	2.88
1964	2.54	2.93
1965	2.5	2.86
1966	2.53	2.78
1967	2.48	2.68
1968	2.38	2.6
1969	2.21	2.51
1970	2.03	2.44
1971	1.92	2.41
1972	1.71	2.2
1973	1.54	2.04
1974	1.51	1.92
1975	1.45	1.81
1976	1.45	1.74
1977	1.4	1.69
1978	1.38	1.75
1979	1.38	1.86
1980	1.44	1.9
1981	1.43	1.82
1982	1.41	1.78
1983	1.33	1.77
1984	1.29	1.77
1985	1.37	1.79
1986	1.43	1.78
1987	1.43	1.81
1988	1.46	1.82
1989	1.42	1.79
1990	1.45	1.83
1991	1.33	1.82
1992	1.29	1.79
1993	1.28	1.76
1994	1.24	1.74
1995	1.25	1.71
1996	1.3	1.73
1997	1.35	1.72
1998	1.36	1.71
1999	1.36	1.68
2000	1.38	1.64
2001	1.35	1.63
2002	1.34	1.63
2003	1.34	1.7
2004	1.36	1.75
2005	1.34	1.76
2006	1.33	1.82
2007	1.37	1.86
2008	1.38	1.91
2009	1.36	1.89
2010	1.39	1.92
2011	1.39	1.91
2012	1.41	1.92
2013	1.42	1.83
2014	1.47	1.81
2015	1.5	1.8
2016	1.6	1.79
2017	1.57	1.74
2018	1.57	1.68
2019	1.54	1.63
2020	1.53	1.57
2021	1.58	1.58
2022	1.46	1.56
2023	1.39	1.56

Germany and United Kingdom demographics compared

Median age

Germany

United Kingdom

Table

Year	Median age, years
	Germany	United Kingdom
1960	34.7	35.5
1961	34.7	35.4
1962	34.7	35.3
1963	34.6	35.3
1964	34.5	35.2
1965	34.4	35.1
1966	34.4	34.9
1967	34.3	34.8
1968	34.2	34.6
1969	34.1	34.4
1970	34.3	34.2
1971	34.4	34.1
1972	34.6	34
1973	34.7	34
1974	35	34
1975	35.5	34
1976	35.8	34
1977	36.1	34.1
1978	36.3	34.2
1979	36.4	34.3
1980	36.5	34.4
1981	36.5	34.5
1982	36.6	34.8
1983	36.7	35
1984	37	35.2
1985	37.1	35.3
1986	37.2	35.4
1987	37.4	35.4
1988	37.6	35.7
1989	37.6	35.9
1990	37.6	36
1991	37.7	36.1
1992	37.8	36.2
1993	37.9	36.3
1994	38.1	36.5
1995	38.4	36.6
1996	38.6	36.8
1997	38.9	37
1998	39.3	37.2
1999	39.7	37.4
2000	40	37.7
2001	40.4	37.9
2002	40.8	38.1
2003	41.2	38.2
2004	41.6	38.4
2005	42	38.5
2006	42.5	38.6
2007	43.1	38.8
2008	43.5	38.9
2009	43.9	39
2010	44.2	39.2
2011	44.6	39.3
2012	45.1	39.5
2013	45.5	39.6
2014	45.7	39.7
2015	45.7	39.8
2016	45.7	39.8
2017	45.8	39.9
2018	45.8	40
2019	45.8	40.1
2020	45.8	40.2
2021	45.9	40.3
2022	46	40.5
2023	46.2	40.8
2024	46.3	41

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