Population in Australia compared to Germany: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Australia and Germany: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Australia	Germany	Australia	Germany
1960	10,276,477	72,814,900	-	-
1961	10,483,000	73,377,632	2.01%	0.77%
1962	10,742,000	74,025,784	2.47%	0.88%
1963	10,950,000	74,714,353	1.94%	0.93%
1964	11,167,000	75,318,337	1.98%	0.81%
1965	11,388,000	75,963,695	1.98%	0.86%
1966	11,651,000	76,600,311	2.31%	0.84%
1967	11,799,000	76,951,336	1.27%	0.46%
1968	12,009,000	77,294,314	1.78%	0.45%
1969	12,263,000	77,909,682	2.12%	0.8%
1970	12,507,000	78,169,289	1.99%	0.33%
1971	12,937,000	78,312,842	3.44%	0.18%
1972	13,177,000	78,688,452	1.86%	0.48%
1973	13,380,000	78,936,666	1.54%	0.32%
1974	13,723,000	78,967,433	2.56%	0.04%
1975	13,893,000	78,673,554	1.24%	-0.37%
1976	14,033,000	78,336,950	1.01%	-0.43%
1977	14,192,000	78,159,814	1.13%	-0.23%
1978	14,358,000	78,091,820	1.17%	-0.09%
1979	14,514,000	78,126,350	1.09%	0.04%
1980	14,692,000	78,288,576	1.23%	0.21%
1981	14,923,260	78,407,907	1.57%	0.15%
1982	15,184,247	78,333,366	1.75%	-0.1%
1983	15,393,472	78,128,282	1.38%	-0.26%
1984	15,579,391	77,858,685	1.21%	-0.35%
1985	15,788,312	77,684,873	1.34%	-0.22%
1986	16,018,350	77,720,436	1.46%	0.05%
1987	16,263,874	77,839,920	1.53%	0.15%
1988	16,532,164	78,144,619	1.65%	0.39%
1989	16,814,416	78,751,283	1.71%	0.78%
1990	17,065,128	79,433,029	1.49%	0.87%
1991	17,284,036	80,013,896	1.28%	0.73%
1992	17,478,635	80,624,598	1.13%	0.76%
1993	17,634,808	81,156,363	0.89%	0.66%
1994	17,805,468	81,438,348	0.97%	0.35%
1995	18,004,882	81,678,051	1.12%	0.29%
1996	18,224,767	81,914,831	1.22%	0.29%
1997	18,423,037	82,034,771	1.09%	0.15%
1998	18,607,584	82,047,195	1%	0.02%
1999	18,812,264	82,100,243	1.1%	0.06%
2000	19,028,802	82,211,508	1.15%	0.14%
2001	19,274,701	82,349,925	1.29%	0.17%
2002	19,495,210	82,488,495	1.14%	0.17%
2003	19,720,737	82,534,176	1.16%	0.06%
2004	19,932,722	82,516,260	1.07%	-0.02%
2005	20,176,844	82,469,422	1.22%	-0.06%
2006	20,450,966	82,376,451	1.36%	-0.11%
2007	20,827,622	82,266,372	1.84%	-0.13%
2008	21,249,199	82,110,097	2.02%	-0.19%
2009	21,691,653	81,902,307	2.08%	-0.25%
2010	22,031,750	81,776,930	1.57%	-0.15%
2011	22,340,024	80,274,983	1.4%	-1.84%
2012	22,733,465	80,425,823	1.76%	0.19%
2013	23,128,129	80,645,605	1.74%	0.27%
2014	23,475,686	80,982,500	1.5%	0.42%
2015	23,815,995	81,686,611	1.45%	0.87%
2016	24,190,907	82,348,669	1.57%	0.81%
2017	24,592,588	82,657,002	1.66%	0.37%
2018	24,963,258	82,905,782	1.51%	0.3%
2019	25,334,826	83,092,962	1.49%	0.23%
2020	25,649,248	83,160,871	1.24%	0.08%
2021	25,685,412	83,196,078	0.14%	0.04%
2022	26,018,721	83,177,813	1.3%	-0.02%
2023	26,659,922	83,287,273	2.46%	0.13%
2024	27,196,812	83,516,593	2.01%	0.28%
2025	27,462,351	83,045,276	0.98%	-0.56%
2026	27,720,006	82,619,736	0.94%	-0.51%
2027	27,971,653	82,420,656	0.91%	-0.24%
2028	28,220,660	82,209,650	0.89%	-0.26%
2029	28,462,685	81,988,746	0.86%	-0.27%
2030	28,698,853	81,767,011	0.83%	-0.27%
2031	28,932,262	81,541,291	0.81%	-0.28%
2032	29,160,438	81,315,327	0.79%	-0.28%
2033	29,384,107	81,094,150	0.77%	-0.27%
2034	29,605,432	80,879,704	0.75%	-0.26%
2035	29,826,537	80,669,570	0.75%	-0.26%
2036	30,047,917	80,445,835	0.74%	-0.28%
2037	30,264,792	80,222,108	0.72%	-0.28%
2038	30,480,032	80,001,936	0.71%	-0.27%
2039	30,694,219	79,780,699	0.7%	-0.28%
2040	30,907,034	79,565,092	0.69%	-0.27%
2041	31,123,706	79,361,541	0.7%	-0.26%
2042	31,343,677	79,167,400	0.71%	-0.24%
2043	31,563,469	78,962,964	0.7%	-0.26%
2044	31,781,220	78,743,160	0.69%	-0.28%
2045	32,000,146	78,518,131	0.69%	-0.29%
2046	32,223,471	78,293,579	0.7%	-0.29%
2047	32,443,112	78,066,226	0.68%	-0.29%
2048	32,662,412	77,826,011	0.68%	-0.31%
2049	32,881,878	77,578,876	0.67%	-0.32%
2050	33,095,459	77,335,610	0.65%	-0.31%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Australia increased by 3,739,941 people (a 18.3% growth), while Germany lost 27,782 people (a 0.03% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Australia gained 3,531,849 (a 14.6% growth), while Germany's population increased by 271,067 (a 0.33% growth).

Australia was ranked 54th most populous country in 2006 and is 55th in 2026. Germany was ranked 14th in 2006 and ranked 19th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Australia's population will grow by 19.4% to 33,095,459 people with a rank change from 55th to 59th. The population of Germany will decrease by 6.4% to 77,335,610 people and rank change from 19th to 24th.