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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Austria	Germany	Austria	Germany
1960	7,047,539	72,814,900	-	-
1961	7,086,299	73,377,632	0.55%	0.77%
1962	7,129,864	74,025,784	0.61%	0.88%
1963	7,175,811	74,714,353	0.64%	0.93%
1964	7,223,801	75,318,337	0.67%	0.81%
1965	7,270,889	75,963,695	0.65%	0.86%
1966	7,322,066	76,600,311	0.7%	0.84%
1967	7,376,998	76,951,336	0.75%	0.46%
1968	7,415,403	77,294,314	0.52%	0.45%
1969	7,441,055	77,909,682	0.35%	0.8%
1970	7,467,086	78,169,289	0.35%	0.33%
1971	7,500,482	78,312,842	0.45%	0.18%
1972	7,544,201	78,688,452	0.58%	0.48%
1973	7,586,115	78,936,666	0.56%	0.32%
1974	7,599,038	78,967,433	0.17%	0.04%
1975	7,578,903	78,673,554	-0.26%	-0.37%
1976	7,565,525	78,336,950	-0.18%	-0.43%
1977	7,568,430	78,159,814	0.04%	-0.23%
1978	7,562,305	78,091,820	-0.08%	-0.09%
1979	7,549,425	78,126,350	-0.17%	0.04%
1980	7,549,433	78,288,576	0%	0.21%
1981	7,568,710	78,407,907	0.26%	0.15%
1982	7,574,140	78,333,366	0.07%	-0.1%
1983	7,561,910	78,128,282	-0.16%	-0.26%
1984	7,561,434	77,858,685	-0.006%	-0.35%
1985	7,564,985	77,684,873	0.05%	-0.22%
1986	7,569,794	77,720,436	0.06%	0.05%
1987	7,574,586	77,839,920	0.06%	0.15%
1988	7,585,317	78,144,619	0.14%	0.39%
1989	7,619,567	78,751,283	0.45%	0.78%
1990	7,677,850	79,433,029	0.76%	0.87%
1991	7,754,891	80,013,896	1%	0.73%
1992	7,840,709	80,624,598	1.11%	0.76%
1993	7,905,633	81,156,363	0.83%	0.66%
1994	7,936,118	81,438,348	0.39%	0.35%
1995	7,948,278	81,678,051	0.15%	0.29%
1996	7,959,017	81,914,831	0.14%	0.29%
1997	7,968,041	82,034,771	0.11%	0.15%
1998	7,976,789	82,047,195	0.11%	0.02%
1999	7,992,324	82,100,243	0.19%	0.06%
2000	8,011,566	82,211,508	0.24%	0.14%
2001	8,042,293	82,349,925	0.38%	0.17%
2002	8,081,957	82,488,495	0.49%	0.17%
2003	8,121,423	82,534,176	0.49%	0.06%
2004	8,171,966	82,516,260	0.62%	-0.02%
2005	8,227,829	82,469,422	0.68%	-0.06%
2006	8,268,641	82,376,451	0.5%	-0.11%
2007	8,295,487	82,266,372	0.32%	-0.13%
2008	8,321,496	82,110,097	0.31%	-0.19%
2009	8,343,323	81,902,307	0.26%	-0.25%
2010	8,363,404	81,776,930	0.24%	-0.15%
2011	8,391,643	80,274,983	0.34%	-1.84%
2012	8,429,991	80,425,823	0.46%	0.19%
2013	8,479,823	80,645,605	0.59%	0.27%
2014	8,546,356	80,982,500	0.78%	0.42%
2015	8,642,699	81,686,611	1.13%	0.87%
2016	8,736,668	82,348,669	1.09%	0.81%
2017	8,797,566	82,657,002	0.7%	0.37%
2018	8,840,521	82,905,782	0.49%	0.3%
2019	8,879,920	83,092,962	0.45%	0.23%
2020	8,916,864	83,160,871	0.42%	0.08%
2021	8,955,797	83,196,078	0.44%	0.04%
2022	9,041,851	83,177,813	0.96%	-0.02%
2023	9,131,761	83,287,273	0.99%	0.13%
2024	9,177,982	83,516,593	0.51%	0.28%
2025	9,170,698	83,045,276	-0.08%	-0.56%
2026	9,164,347	82,619,736	-0.07%	-0.51%
2027	9,158,537	82,420,656	-0.06%	-0.24%
2028	9,153,285	82,209,650	-0.06%	-0.26%
2029	9,146,737	81,988,746	-0.07%	-0.27%
2030	9,137,256	81,767,011	-0.1%	-0.27%
2031	9,125,926	81,541,291	-0.12%	-0.28%
2032	9,113,265	81,315,327	-0.14%	-0.28%
2033	9,100,164	81,094,150	-0.14%	-0.27%
2034	9,086,003	80,879,704	-0.16%	-0.26%
2035	9,070,703	80,669,570	-0.17%	-0.26%
2036	9,055,647	80,445,835	-0.17%	-0.28%
2037	9,038,995	80,222,108	-0.18%	-0.28%
2038	9,022,606	80,001,936	-0.18%	-0.27%
2039	9,006,886	79,780,699	-0.17%	-0.28%
2040	8,990,060	79,565,092	-0.19%	-0.27%
2041	8,973,446	79,361,541	-0.18%	-0.26%
2042	8,956,456	79,167,400	-0.19%	-0.24%
2043	8,938,855	78,962,964	-0.2%	-0.26%
2044	8,920,058	78,743,160	-0.21%	-0.28%
2045	8,900,167	78,518,131	-0.22%	-0.29%
2046	8,879,512	78,293,579	-0.23%	-0.29%
2047	8,857,072	78,066,226	-0.25%	-0.29%
2048	8,832,859	77,826,011	-0.27%	-0.31%
2049	8,806,607	77,578,876	-0.3%	-0.32%
2050	8,779,015	77,335,610	-0.31%	-0.31%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Austria increased by 468,027 people (a 5.66% growth), while Germany lost 27,782 people (a 0.03% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Austria gained 427,679 (a 4.9% growth), while Germany's population increased by 271,067 (a 0.33% growth).

Austria was ranked 91st most populous country in 2006 and is 99th 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) Austria's population will shrink by 4.2% to 8,779,015 people with a rank change from 99th to 108th. The population of Germany will decrease by 6.4% to 77,335,610 people and rank change from 19th to 24th.