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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Germany was 83,510,950 in 2024 vs 91,567,738 people in Iran in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Germany's population is 83,039,665 people compared to 93,020,793 in Iran.

Population statistics:

  • Iran's population is 1.12 times bigger than Germany's.
  • Germany is ranked the 19th most populous country in the world, while Iran is the 17th.
  • The countries together account for 2.13% of the world: 1% for Germany vs 1.13% for Iran.
  • For the last 10 years, Germany has had an average growth rate of +0.32% per year vs +1.19% in Iran.
  • Since 2005, the population of Germany has increased from 82.5M people to 83M (0.69% growth), while Iran has grown from 71.8M to 93M (29.5% growth).
  • Iran is projected to reach its peak in 2053 at 102M people, while Germany's population already peaked in 2023 at 83.9M people and is projected to decrease to 70M people by 2100.

Germany vs Iran: live population counter

Germany Iran
Current population
83039665
93020793
Population rank 19/197 17/197
Percent of world population 1% 1.13%
One net population change
1.34 minutes
32.9 seconds
One birth every
45.3 seconds
26.9 seconds
One death every
30.6 seconds
1.24 minutes
One migration net change every
14.2 minutes
2.76 minutes
Annual migration change +36,954 +190,156
Daily growth/decline -1,071 +2,627
Annual growth/decline -390,973 +959,031
Annual growth/decline rate -0.47% +1.06%
Population growth rate rank 184/197 100/197

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

Germany
Population

Growth rate
Iran
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Germany Iran Germany Iran
1960 72,814,900 21,470,434 - -
1961 73,377,632 22,125,726 0.77% 3.05%
1962 74,025,784 22,807,907 0.88% 3.08%
1963 74,714,353 23,519,005 0.93% 3.12%
1964 75,318,337 24,262,859 0.81% 3.16%
1965 75,963,695 25,036,978 0.86% 3.19%
1966 76,600,311 25,829,270 0.84% 3.16%
1967 76,951,336 26,628,432 0.46% 3.09%
1968 77,294,314 27,437,391 0.45% 3.04%
1969 77,909,682 28,273,482 0.8% 3.05%
1970 78,169,289 29,145,100 0.33% 3.08%
1971 78,312,842 30,029,071 0.18% 3.03%
1972 78,688,452 30,921,179 0.48% 2.97%
1973 78,936,666 31,839,838 0.32% 2.97%
1974 78,967,433 32,796,463 0.04% 3%
1975 78,673,554 33,802,973 -0.37% 3.07%
1976 78,336,950 34,837,271 -0.43% 3.06%
1977 78,159,814 35,933,181 -0.23% 3.15%
1978 78,091,820 37,126,535 -0.09% 3.32%
1979 78,126,350 38,424,952 0.04% 3.5%
1980 78,288,576 39,842,324 0.21% 3.69%
1981 78,407,907 41,989,312 0.15% 5.39%
1982 78,333,366 44,272,141 -0.1% 5.44%
1983 78,128,282 46,029,535 -0.26% 3.97%
1984 77,858,685 47,793,998 -0.35% 3.83%
1985 77,684,873 49,582,289 -0.22% 3.74%
1986 77,720,436 51,446,045 0.05% 3.76%
1987 77,839,920 53,323,493 0.15% 3.65%
1988 78,144,619 55,072,694 0.39% 3.28%
1989 78,751,283 56,704,914 0.78% 2.96%
1990 79,433,029 58,380,092 0.87% 2.95%
1991 80,013,896 59,986,931 0.73% 2.75%
1992 80,624,598 61,184,983 0.76% 2%
1993 81,156,363 61,403,543 0.66% 0.36%
1994 81,438,348 61,520,598 0.35% 0.19%
1995 81,678,051 62,205,567 0.29% 1.11%
1996 81,914,831 62,881,300 0.29% 1.09%
1997 82,034,771 63,639,638 0.15% 1.21%
1998 82,047,195 64,519,859 0.02% 1.38%
1999 82,100,243 65,445,391 0.06% 1.43%
2000 82,211,508 66,418,659 0.14% 1.49%
2001 82,349,925 67,452,005 0.17% 1.56%
2002 82,488,495 68,011,317 0.17% 0.83%
2003 82,534,176 68,769,340 0.06% 1.11%
2004 82,516,260 70,256,316 -0.02% 2.16%
2005 82,469,422 71,828,455 -0.06% 2.24%
2006 82,376,451 73,392,747 -0.11% 2.18%
2007 82,266,372 74,602,648 -0.13% 1.65%
2008 82,110,097 75,514,204 -0.19% 1.22%
2009 81,902,307 76,457,825 -0.25% 1.25%
2010 81,776,930 77,420,842 -0.15% 1.26%
2011 80,274,983 78,383,598 -1.84% 1.24%
2012 80,425,823 79,370,580 0.19% 1.26%
2013 80,645,605 80,414,686 0.27% 1.32%
2014 80,982,500 81,502,045 0.42% 1.35%
2015 81,686,611 82,619,362 0.87% 1.37%
2016 82,348,669 83,812,228 0.81% 1.44%
2017 82,657,002 85,026,754 0.37% 1.45%
2018 82,905,782 86,117,998 0.3% 1.28%
2019 83,092,962 87,051,648 0.23% 1.08%
2020 83,160,871 87,723,443 0.08% 0.77%
2021 83,196,078 88,455,488 0.04% 0.83%
2022 83,797,985 89,524,246 0.72% 1.21%
2023 83,901,923 90,608,707 0.12% 1.21%
2024 83,510,950 91,567,738 -0.47% 1.06%
2025 83,039,665 92,417,685 -0.56% 0.93%
2026 82,614,154 93,168,494 -0.51% 0.81%
2027 82,415,087 93,838,646 -0.24% 0.72%
2028 82,204,095 94,440,024 -0.26% 0.64%
2029 81,983,207 94,985,102 -0.27% 0.58%
2030 81,761,486 95,486,672 -0.27% 0.53%
2031 81,535,782 95,960,723 -0.28% 0.5%
2032 81,309,833 96,415,457 -0.28% 0.47%
2033 81,088,671 96,850,659 -0.27% 0.45%
2034 80,874,239 97,271,044 -0.26% 0.43%
2035 80,664,119 97,679,258 -0.26% 0.42%
2036 80,440,400 98,075,324 -0.28% 0.41%
2037 80,216,687 98,458,805 -0.28% 0.39%
2038 79,996,530 98,828,318 -0.27% 0.38%
2039 79,775,309 99,182,806 -0.28% 0.36%
2040 79,559,716 99,524,286 -0.27% 0.34%
2041 79,356,179 99,853,719 -0.26% 0.33%
2042 79,162,051 100,167,076 -0.24% 0.31%
2043 78,957,628 100,462,092 -0.26% 0.29%
2044 78,737,840 100,737,592 -0.28% 0.27%
2045 78,512,825 100,990,622 -0.29% 0.25%
2046 78,288,289 101,219,689 -0.29% 0.23%
2047 78,060,952 101,424,009 -0.29% 0.2%
2048 77,820,753 101,601,932 -0.31% 0.18%
2049 77,573,634 101,748,544 -0.32% 0.14%
2050 77,330,385 101,862,002 -0.31% 0.11%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Germany decreased by 782,811 people (a 0.95% decline), while Iran gained 10,790,907 people (a 15% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Germany gained 1,353,054 (a 1.66% growth), while Iran's population increased by 10,401,431 (a 12.6% growth).

Germany was ranked 13th most populous country in 2005 and is 19th in 2025. Iran was ranked 17th in 2005 and still ranked 17th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Germany's population will shrink by 6.88% to 77,330,385 people with a rank change from 19th to 24th. The population of Iran will increase by 9.5% to 101,862,002 people and rank change from 17th to 18th.

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