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Population in Germany compared to South Sudan: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Germany was 83,510,950 in 2024 vs 11,943,408 people in South Sudan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Germany's population is 83,039,665 people compared to 12,387,398 in South Sudan.

Population statistics:

  • Germany's population is 6.7 times bigger than South Sudan's.
  • Germany is ranked the 19th most populous country in the world, while South Sudan is the 81st.
  • The countries together account for 1.15% of the world: 1% for Germany vs 0.15% for South Sudan.
  • For the last 10 years, Germany has had an average growth rate of +0.32% per year vs +0.65% in South Sudan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Germany has increased from 82.5M people to 83M (0.69% growth), while South Sudan has grown from 7.59M to 12.4M (63.2% growth).
  • South Sudan is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 23.8M 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 South Sudan: live population counter

Germany South Sudan
Current population
83039665
12387398
Population rank 19/197 81/197
Percent of world population 1% 0.15%
One net population change
1.34 minutes
1.14 minutes
One birth every
45.3 seconds
1.6 minutes
One death every
30.6 seconds
4.76 minutes
One migration net change every
14.2 minutes
34.2 minutes
Annual migration change +36,954 +15,374
Daily growth/decline -1,071 +1,260
Annual growth/decline -390,973 +460,034
Annual growth/decline rate -0.47% +4.01%
Population growth rate rank 184/197 6/197

Germany and South Sudan: population history and growth rate by year chart

Germany
Population

Growth rate
South Sudan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Germany South Sudan Germany South Sudan
1960 72,814,900 2,931,559 - -
1961 73,377,632 2,976,724 0.77% 1.54%
1962 74,025,784 3,024,308 0.88% 1.6%
1963 74,714,353 3,072,669 0.93% 1.6%
1964 75,318,337 3,129,918 0.81% 1.86%
1965 75,963,695 3,189,835 0.86% 1.91%
1966 76,600,311 3,236,423 0.84% 1.46%
1967 76,951,336 3,277,648 0.46% 1.27%
1968 77,294,314 3,321,528 0.45% 1.34%
1969 77,909,682 3,365,533 0.8% 1.32%
1970 78,169,289 3,409,614 0.33% 1.31%
1971 78,312,842 3,468,646 0.18% 1.73%
1972 78,688,452 3,542,497 0.48% 2.13%
1973 78,936,666 3,627,383 0.32% 2.4%
1974 78,967,433 3,723,259 0.04% 2.64%
1975 78,673,554 3,821,494 -0.37% 2.64%
1976 78,336,950 3,921,910 -0.43% 2.63%
1977 78,159,814 4,024,032 -0.23% 2.6%
1978 78,091,820 4,127,657 -0.09% 2.58%
1979 78,126,350 4,232,605 0.04% 2.54%
1980 78,288,576 4,339,030 0.21% 2.51%
1981 78,407,907 4,447,272 0.15% 2.49%
1982 78,333,366 4,557,686 -0.1% 2.48%
1983 78,128,282 4,661,574 -0.26% 2.28%
1984 77,858,685 4,750,627 -0.35% 1.91%
1985 77,684,873 4,834,296 -0.22% 1.76%
1986 77,720,436 4,921,240 0.05% 1.8%
1987 77,839,920 4,962,395 0.15% 0.84%
1988 78,144,619 4,848,029 0.39% -2.3%
1989 78,751,283 4,713,229 0.78% -2.78%
1990 79,433,029 4,737,633 0.87% 0.52%
1991 80,013,896 4,836,677 0.73% 2.09%
1992 80,624,598 4,909,749 0.76% 1.51%
1993 81,156,363 4,956,002 0.66% 0.94%
1994 81,438,348 5,071,184 0.35% 2.32%
1995 81,678,051 5,225,836 0.29% 3.05%
1996 81,914,831 5,356,925 0.29% 2.51%
1997 82,034,771 5,509,136 0.15% 2.84%
1998 82,047,195 5,620,068 0.02% 2.01%
1999 82,100,243 5,771,628 0.06% 2.7%
2000 82,211,508 6,032,267 0.14% 4.52%
2001 82,349,925 6,308,391 0.17% 4.58%
2002 82,488,495 6,596,806 0.17% 4.57%
2003 82,534,176 6,903,127 0.06% 4.64%
2004 82,516,260 7,233,041 -0.02% 4.78%
2005 82,469,422 7,590,143 -0.06% 4.94%
2006 82,376,451 7,976,526 -0.11% 5.09%
2007 82,266,372 8,388,788 -0.13% 5.17%
2008 82,110,097 8,817,647 -0.19% 5.11%
2009 81,902,307 9,243,556 -0.25% 4.83%
2010 81,776,930 9,745,953 -0.15% 5.44%
2011 80,274,983 10,288,109 -1.84% 5.56%
2012 80,425,823 10,756,240 0.19% 4.55%
2013 80,645,605 11,166,275 0.27% 3.81%
2014 80,982,500 11,235,073 0.42% 0.62%
2015 81,686,611 11,107,561 0.87% -1.13%
2016 82,348,669 10,830,102 0.81% -2.5%
2017 82,657,002 10,259,154 0.37% -5.27%
2018 82,905,782 10,122,977 0.3% -1.33%
2019 83,092,962 10,423,384 0.23% 2.97%
2020 83,160,871 10,698,467 0.08% 2.64%
2021 83,196,078 10,865,780 0.04% 1.56%
2022 83,797,985 11,021,177 0.72% 1.43%
2023 83,901,923 11,483,374 0.12% 4.19%
2024 83,510,950 11,943,408 -0.47% 4.01%
2025 83,039,665 12,188,793 -0.56% 2.05%
2026 82,614,154 12,436,036 -0.51% 2.03%
2027 82,415,087 12,687,301 -0.24% 2.02%
2028 82,204,095 12,941,503 -0.26% 2%
2029 81,983,207 13,198,080 -0.27% 1.98%
2030 81,761,486 13,457,446 -0.27% 1.97%
2031 81,535,782 13,725,413 -0.28% 1.99%
2032 81,309,833 13,996,343 -0.28% 1.97%
2033 81,088,671 14,261,762 -0.27% 1.9%
2034 80,874,239 14,527,550 -0.26% 1.86%
2035 80,664,119 14,798,602 -0.26% 1.87%
2036 80,440,400 15,070,098 -0.28% 1.83%
2037 80,216,687 15,335,700 -0.28% 1.76%
2038 79,996,530 15,595,968 -0.27% 1.7%
2039 79,775,309 15,850,696 -0.28% 1.63%
2040 79,559,716 16,101,470 -0.27% 1.58%
2041 79,356,179 16,350,149 -0.26% 1.54%
2042 79,162,051 16,593,361 -0.24% 1.49%
2043 78,957,628 16,829,209 -0.26% 1.42%
2044 78,737,840 17,060,176 -0.28% 1.37%
2045 78,512,825 17,286,412 -0.29% 1.33%
2046 78,288,289 17,509,693 -0.29% 1.29%
2047 78,060,952 17,728,331 -0.29% 1.25%
2048 77,820,753 17,938,437 -0.31% 1.19%
2049 77,573,634 18,142,893 -0.32% 1.14%
2050 77,330,385 18,341,968 -0.31% 1.1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Germany decreased by 782,811 people (a 0.95% decline), while South Sudan gained 3,517,418 people (a 46.3% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Germany gained 1,353,054 (a 1.66% growth), while South Sudan's population increased by 1,279,837 (a 11.5% growth).

Germany was ranked 13th most populous country in 2005 and is 19th in 2025. South Sudan was ranked 93rd in 2005 and ranked 81st 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 South Sudan will increase by 48.1% to 18,341,968 people and rank change from 81st to 78th.

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