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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Germany	Poland	Germany	Poland
1960	72,814,900	29,637,450	-	-
1961	73,377,632	29,964,000	0.77%	1.1%
1962	74,025,784	30,308,500	0.88%	1.15%
1963	74,714,353	30,712,000	0.93%	1.33%
1964	75,318,337	31,139,450	0.81%	1.39%
1965	75,963,695	31,444,950	0.86%	0.98%
1966	76,600,311	31,681,000	0.84%	0.75%
1967	76,951,336	31,987,155	0.46%	0.97%
1968	77,294,314	32,294,655	0.45%	0.96%
1969	77,909,682	32,548,300	0.8%	0.79%
1970	78,169,289	32,664,300	0.33%	0.36%
1971	78,312,842	32,783,500	0.18%	0.36%
1972	78,688,452	33,055,650	0.48%	0.83%
1973	78,936,666	33,357,200	0.32%	0.91%
1974	78,967,433	33,678,899	0.04%	0.96%
1975	78,673,554	34,015,199	-0.37%	1%
1976	78,336,950	34,356,300	-0.43%	1%
1977	78,159,814	34,689,050	-0.23%	0.97%
1978	78,091,820	34,965,600	-0.09%	0.8%
1979	78,126,350	35,247,217	0.04%	0.81%
1980	78,288,576	35,574,150	0.21%	0.93%
1981	78,407,907	35,898,587	0.15%	0.91%
1982	78,333,366	36,230,481	-0.1%	0.92%
1983	78,128,282	36,571,808	-0.26%	0.94%
1984	77,858,685	36,904,134	-0.35%	0.91%
1985	77,684,873	37,201,885	-0.22%	0.81%
1986	77,720,436	37,456,119	0.05%	0.68%
1987	77,839,920	37,668,045	0.15%	0.57%
1988	78,144,619	37,824,487	0.39%	0.42%
1989	78,751,283	37,961,529	0.78%	0.36%
1990	79,433,029	38,110,782	0.87%	0.39%
1991	80,013,896	38,246,193	0.73%	0.36%
1992	80,624,598	38,363,667	0.76%	0.31%
1993	81,156,363	38,461,408	0.66%	0.25%
1994	81,438,348	38,542,652	0.35%	0.21%
1995	81,678,051	38,594,998	0.29%	0.14%
1996	81,914,831	38,624,370	0.29%	0.08%
1997	82,034,771	38,649,660	0.15%	0.07%
1998	82,047,195	38,663,481	0.02%	0.04%
1999	82,100,243	38,660,271	0.06%	-0.008%
2000	82,211,508	38,258,629	0.14%	-1.04%
2001	82,349,925	38,248,076	0.17%	-0.03%
2002	82,488,495	38,230,364	0.17%	-0.05%
2003	82,534,176	38,204,570	0.06%	-0.07%
2004	82,516,260	38,182,222	-0.02%	-0.06%
2005	82,469,422	38,165,445	-0.06%	-0.04%
2006	82,376,451	38,141,267	-0.11%	-0.06%
2007	82,266,372	38,120,560	-0.13%	-0.05%
2008	82,110,097	38,125,759	-0.19%	0.01%
2009	81,902,307	38,151,603	-0.25%	0.07%
2010	81,776,930	38,042,794	-0.15%	-0.29%
2011	80,274,983	38,063,255	-1.84%	0.05%
2012	80,425,823	38,063,164	0.19%	-0%
2013	80,645,605	38,040,196	0.27%	-0.06%
2014	80,982,500	38,011,735	0.42%	-0.07%
2015	81,686,611	37,986,412	0.87%	-0.07%
2016	82,348,669	37,970,087	0.81%	-0.04%
2017	82,657,002	37,974,826	0.37%	0.01%
2018	82,905,782	37,974,750	0.3%	-0%
2019	83,092,962	37,965,475	0.23%	-0.02%
2020	83,160,871	37,515,748	0.08%	-1.18%
2021	83,196,078	36,981,559	0.04%	-1.42%
2022	83,797,985	36,821,749	0.72%	-0.43%
2023	83,901,923	36,687,353	0.12%	-0.36%
2024	83,510,950	36,554,707	-0.47%	-0.36%
2025	83,039,665	36,176,920	-0.56%	-1.03%
2026	82,614,154	35,894,534	-0.51%	-0.78%
2027	82,415,087	35,753,988	-0.24%	-0.39%
2028	82,204,095	35,605,295	-0.26%	-0.42%
2029	81,983,207	35,447,860	-0.27%	-0.44%
2030	81,761,486	35,283,068	-0.27%	-0.46%
2031	81,535,782	35,111,838	-0.28%	-0.49%
2032	81,309,833	34,934,626	-0.28%	-0.5%
2033	81,088,671	34,753,118	-0.27%	-0.52%
2034	80,874,239	34,567,292	-0.26%	-0.53%
2035	80,664,119	34,377,478	-0.26%	-0.55%
2036	80,440,400	34,183,187	-0.28%	-0.57%
2037	80,216,687	33,984,777	-0.28%	-0.58%
2038	79,996,530	33,782,992	-0.27%	-0.59%
2039	79,775,309	33,577,269	-0.28%	-0.61%
2040	79,559,716	33,368,049	-0.27%	-0.62%
2041	79,356,179	33,156,329	-0.26%	-0.63%
2042	79,162,051	32,941,367	-0.24%	-0.65%
2043	78,957,628	32,722,775	-0.26%	-0.66%
2044	78,737,840	32,501,991	-0.28%	-0.67%
2045	78,512,825	32,278,695	-0.29%	-0.69%
2046	78,288,289	32,052,771	-0.29%	-0.7%
2047	78,060,952	31,824,481	-0.29%	-0.71%
2048	77,820,753	31,593,911	-0.31%	-0.72%
2049	77,573,634	31,360,713	-0.32%	-0.74%
2050	77,330,385	31,124,396	-0.31%	-0.75%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Germany decreased by 782,811 people (a 0.95% decline), while Poland lost 179,033 people (a 0.47% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Germany gained 1,353,054 (a 1.66% growth), while Poland's population decreased by -1,809,492 (a 4.76% decline).

Germany was ranked 13th most populous country in 2005 and is 19th in 2025. Poland was ranked 32nd in 2005 and ranked 46th 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 Poland will decrease by 14% to 31,124,396 people and rank change from 46th to 61st.