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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Germany was 83,516,593 in 2024 vs 46,042,015 people in Iraq in 2024. In 2026, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Germany's population is 82,619,736 people compared to 48,018,145 in Iraq.

Population statistics:

  • Germany's population is 1.72 times bigger than Iraq's.
  • Germany is ranked the 19th most populous country in the world, while Iraq is the 34th.
  • The countries together account for 1.58% of the world: 1% for Germany vs 0.58% for Iraq.
  • For the last 10 years, Germany has had an average growth rate of +0.32% per year vs +2.45% in Iraq.
  • Since 2006, the population of Germany has increased from 82.4M people to 82.6M (0.3% growth), while Iraq has grown from 28.6M to 48M (67.8% growth).
  • Iraq is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 101M people, while Germany's population already peaked in 2024 at 83.5M people and is projected to decrease to 70M people by 2100.

Germany vs Iraq: live population counter

Germany Iraq
Current population
82619736
48018145
Population rank 19/197 34/197
Percent of world population 1% 0.58%
One net population change
2.29 minutes
32.6 seconds
One birth every
45.6 seconds
27.2 seconds
One death every
30.8 seconds
2.82 minutes
One migration net change every
14.2 minutes
29.6 minutes
Annual migration change +36,954 -17,735
Daily growth/decline +628 +2,652
Annual growth/decline +229,320 +967,966
Annual growth/decline rate +0.28% +2.15%
Population growth rate rank 152/197 46/197

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

Germany
Population

Growth rate
Iraq
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Germany Iraq Germany Iraq
1960 72,814,900 7,022,052 - -
1961 73,377,632 7,194,553 0.77% 2.46%
1962 74,025,784 7,413,875 0.88% 3.05%
1963 74,714,353 7,667,928 0.93% 3.43%
1964 75,318,337 7,929,566 0.81% 3.41%
1965 75,963,695 8,202,140 0.86% 3.44%
1966 76,600,311 8,485,104 0.84% 3.45%
1967 76,951,336 8,778,869 0.46% 3.46%
1968 77,294,314 9,085,016 0.45% 3.49%
1969 77,909,682 9,403,356 0.8% 3.5%
1970 78,169,289 9,735,611 0.33% 3.53%
1971 78,312,842 10,077,809 0.18% 3.51%
1972 78,688,452 10,430,164 0.48% 3.5%
1973 78,936,666 10,795,869 0.32% 3.51%
1974 78,967,433 11,167,761 0.04% 3.44%
1975 78,673,554 11,543,639 -0.37% 3.37%
1976 78,336,950 11,927,651 -0.43% 3.33%
1977 78,159,814 12,331,046 -0.23% 3.38%
1978 78,091,820 12,753,355 -0.09% 3.42%
1979 78,126,350 13,170,365 0.04% 3.27%
1980 78,288,576 13,591,992 0.21% 3.2%
1981 78,407,907 14,006,381 0.15% 3.05%
1982 78,333,366 14,406,083 -0.1% 2.85%
1983 78,128,282 14,840,555 -0.26% 3.02%
1984 77,858,685 15,310,733 -0.35% 3.17%
1985 77,684,873 15,683,430 -0.22% 2.43%
1986 77,720,436 16,074,145 0.05% 2.49%
1987 77,839,920 16,521,049 0.15% 2.78%
1988 78,144,619 16,908,819 0.39% 2.35%
1989 78,751,283 17,364,542 0.78% 2.7%
1990 79,433,029 17,581,206 0.87% 1.25%
1991 80,013,896 17,767,253 0.73% 1.06%
1992 80,624,598 18,300,845 0.76% 3%
1993 81,156,363 19,201,195 0.66% 4.92%
1994 81,438,348 20,139,807 0.35% 4.89%
1995 81,678,051 20,825,860 0.29% 3.41%
1996 81,914,831 21,501,321 0.29% 3.24%
1997 82,034,771 22,176,593 0.15% 3.14%
1998 82,047,195 22,884,399 0.02% 3.19%
1999 82,100,243 23,636,527 0.06% 3.29%
2000 82,211,508 24,424,056 0.14% 3.33%
2001 82,349,925 25,197,840 0.17% 3.17%
2002 82,488,495 26,006,559 0.17% 3.21%
2003 82,534,176 26,802,659 0.06% 3.06%
2004 82,516,260 27,577,878 -0.02% 2.89%
2005 82,469,422 28,407,448 -0.06% 3.01%
2006 82,376,451 28,616,515 -0.11% 0.74%
2007 82,266,372 28,391,607 -0.13% -0.79%
2008 82,110,097 28,971,036 -0.19% 2.04%
2009 81,902,307 30,058,206 -0.25% 3.75%
2010 81,776,930 31,045,366 -0.15% 3.28%
2011 80,274,983 32,161,424 -1.84% 3.59%
2012 80,425,823 33,654,842 0.19% 4.64%
2013 80,645,605 35,281,989 0.27% 4.83%
2014 80,982,500 36,550,059 0.42% 3.59%
2015 81,686,611 37,560,535 0.87% 2.76%
2016 82,348,669 38,469,627 0.81% 2.42%
2017 82,657,002 39,337,353 0.37% 2.26%
2018 82,905,782 40,265,624 0.3% 2.36%
2019 83,092,962 41,192,171 0.23% 2.3%
2020 83,160,871 42,116,605 0.08% 2.24%
2021 83,196,078 43,071,211 0.04% 2.27%
2022 83,177,813 44,070,551 -0.02% 2.32%
2023 83,287,273 45,074,049 0.13% 2.28%
2024 83,516,593 46,042,015 0.28% 2.15%
2025 83,045,276 47,020,778 -0.56% 2.13%
2026 82,619,736 48,007,435 -0.51% 2.1%
2027 82,420,656 48,987,424 -0.24% 2.04%
2028 82,209,650 49,960,955 -0.26% 1.99%
2029 81,988,746 50,943,339 -0.27% 1.97%
2030 81,767,011 51,937,208 -0.27% 1.95%
2031 81,541,291 52,934,373 -0.28% 1.92%
2032 81,315,327 53,953,395 -0.28% 1.93%
2033 81,094,150 54,985,129 -0.27% 1.91%
2034 80,879,704 56,012,641 -0.26% 1.87%
2035 80,669,570 57,035,917 -0.26% 1.83%
2036 80,445,835 58,071,740 -0.28% 1.82%
2037 80,222,108 59,109,258 -0.28% 1.79%
2038 80,001,936 60,132,232 -0.27% 1.73%
2039 79,780,699 61,174,679 -0.28% 1.73%
2040 79,565,092 62,223,208 -0.27% 1.71%
2041 79,361,541 63,249,167 -0.26% 1.65%
2042 79,167,400 64,260,847 -0.24% 1.6%
2043 78,962,964 65,257,000 -0.26% 1.55%
2044 78,743,160 66,237,772 -0.28% 1.5%
2045 78,518,131 67,204,176 -0.29% 1.46%
2046 78,293,579 68,150,060 -0.29% 1.41%
2047 78,066,226 69,098,087 -0.29% 1.39%
2048 77,826,011 70,050,118 -0.31% 1.38%
2049 77,578,876 70,999,566 -0.32% 1.36%
2050 77,335,610 71,928,759 -0.31% 1.31%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Germany decreased by 27,782 people (a 0.03% decline), while Iraq gained 9,853,112 people (a 34.4% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Germany gained 271,067 (a 0.33% growth), while Iraq's population increased by 9,548,518 (a 24.8% growth).

Germany was ranked 14th most populous country in 2006 and is 19th in 2026. Iraq was ranked 39th in 2006 and ranked 34th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Germany's population will shrink by 6.4% to 77,335,610 people with a rank change from 19th to 24th. The population of Iraq will increase by 49.8% to 71,928,759 people and rank change from 34th to 28th.

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