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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Germany was 83,516,593 in 2024 vs 37,860,221 people in Ukraine in 2024. In 2026, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Germany's population is 82,619,736 people compared to 39,535,850 in Ukraine.

Population statistics:

  • Germany's population is 2.09 times bigger than Ukraine's.
  • Germany is ranked the 19th most populous country in the world, while Ukraine is the 40th.
  • The countries together account for 1.48% of the world: 1% for Germany vs 0.48% for Ukraine.
  • For the last 10 years, Germany has had an average growth rate of +0.32% per year vs -1.74% in Ukraine.
  • Since 2006, the population of Germany has increased from 82.4M people to 82.6M (0.3% growth), while Ukraine has declined from 47.3M to 39.5M (16.4% decline).
  • Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 13.1% of the population in Germany and 43.2% in Ukraine.

Germany vs Ukraine: live population counter

Germany Ukraine
Current population
82619736
39535850
Population rank 19/197 40/197
Percent of world population 1% 0.48%
One net population change
2.29 minutes
4.13 minutes
One birth every
45.6 seconds
2.48 minutes
One death every
30.8 seconds
1.06 minutes
One migration net change every
14.2 minutes
27.5 seconds
Annual migration change +36,954 +1,146,012
Daily growth/decline +628 +349
Annual growth/decline +229,320 +127,385
Annual growth/decline rate +0.28% +0.34%
Population growth rate rank 152/197 147/197

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

Germany
Population

Growth rate
Ukraine
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Germany Ukraine Germany Ukraine
1960 72,814,900 42,824,093 - -
1961 73,377,632 43,399,766 0.77% 1.34%
1962 74,025,784 43,943,674 0.88% 1.25%
1963 74,714,353 44,462,372 0.93% 1.18%
1964 75,318,337 44,951,156 0.81% 1.1%
1965 75,963,695 45,386,892 0.86% 0.97%
1966 76,600,311 45,802,519 0.84% 0.92%
1967 76,951,336 46,215,988 0.46% 0.9%
1968 77,294,314 46,614,325 0.45% 0.86%
1969 77,909,682 46,976,256 0.8% 0.78%
1970 78,169,289 47,261,306 0.33% 0.61%
1971 78,312,842 47,573,287 0.18% 0.66%
1972 78,688,452 47,946,893 0.48% 0.79%
1973 78,936,666 48,277,121 0.32% 0.69%
1974 78,967,433 48,576,570 0.04% 0.62%
1975 78,673,554 48,865,229 -0.37% 0.59%
1976 78,336,950 49,120,842 -0.43% 0.52%
1977 78,159,814 49,336,481 -0.23% 0.44%
1978 78,091,820 49,521,243 -0.09% 0.37%
1979 78,126,350 49,721,381 0.04% 0.4%
1980 78,288,576 49,955,152 0.21% 0.47%
1981 78,407,907 50,189,281 0.15% 0.47%
1982 78,333,366 50,402,724 -0.1% 0.43%
1983 78,128,282 50,637,029 -0.26% 0.46%
1984 77,858,685 50,887,599 -0.35% 0.49%
1985 77,684,873 51,108,770 -0.22% 0.43%
1986 77,720,436 51,318,745 0.05% 0.41%
1987 77,839,920 51,515,732 0.15% 0.38%
1988 78,144,619 51,724,853 0.39% 0.41%
1989 78,751,283 51,917,817 0.78% 0.37%
1990 79,433,029 52,054,092 0.87% 0.26%
1991 80,013,896 52,170,961 0.73% 0.22%
1992 80,624,598 52,323,671 0.76% 0.29%
1993 81,156,363 52,350,126 0.66% 0.05%
1994 81,438,348 52,075,998 0.35% -0.52%
1995 81,678,051 51,665,539 0.29% -0.79%
1996 81,914,831 51,226,109 0.29% -0.85%
1997 82,034,771 50,786,885 0.15% -0.86%
1998 82,047,195 50,379,731 0.02% -0.8%
1999 82,100,243 49,976,446 0.06% -0.8%
2000 82,211,508 49,556,660 0.14% -0.84%
2001 82,349,925 49,106,855 0.17% -0.91%
2002 82,488,495 48,677,281 0.17% -0.87%
2003 82,534,176 48,315,136 0.06% -0.74%
2004 82,516,260 47,979,507 -0.02% -0.69%
2005 82,469,422 47,585,556 -0.06% -0.82%
2006 82,376,451 47,278,694 -0.11% -0.64%
2007 82,266,372 47,062,798 -0.13% -0.46%
2008 82,110,097 46,819,175 -0.19% -0.52%
2009 81,902,307 46,623,731 -0.25% -0.42%
2010 81,776,930 46,456,003 -0.15% -0.36%
2011 80,274,983 46,307,853 -1.84% -0.32%
2012 80,425,823 46,210,056 0.19% -0.21%
2013 80,645,605 46,126,770 0.27% -0.18%
2014 80,982,500 45,972,380 0.42% -0.33%
2015 81,686,611 45,784,896 0.87% -0.41%
2016 82,348,669 45,616,832 0.81% -0.37%
2017 82,657,002 45,436,041 0.37% -0.4%
2018 82,905,782 45,208,907 0.3% -0.5%
2019 83,092,962 44,957,458 0.23% -0.56%
2020 83,160,871 44,680,014 0.08% -0.62%
2021 83,196,078 44,298,640 0.04% -0.85%
2022 83,177,813 41,048,766 -0.02% -7.34%
2023 83,287,273 37,732,836 0.13% -8.08%
2024 83,516,593 37,860,221 0.28% 0.34%
2025 83,045,276 38,980,379 -0.56% 2.96%
2026 82,619,736 39,535,850 -0.51% 1.43%
2027 82,420,656 39,245,208 -0.24% -0.74%
2028 82,209,650 38,952,086 -0.26% -0.75%
2029 81,988,746 38,654,416 -0.27% -0.76%
2030 81,767,011 38,353,848 -0.27% -0.78%
2031 81,541,291 38,050,624 -0.28% -0.79%
2032 81,315,327 37,746,688 -0.28% -0.8%
2033 81,094,150 37,442,088 -0.27% -0.81%
2034 80,879,704 37,135,839 -0.26% -0.82%
2035 80,669,570 36,828,149 -0.26% -0.83%
2036 80,445,835 36,519,767 -0.28% -0.84%
2037 80,222,108 36,209,679 -0.28% -0.85%
2038 80,001,936 35,897,705 -0.27% -0.86%
2039 79,780,699 35,584,263 -0.28% -0.87%
2040 79,565,092 35,270,911 -0.27% -0.88%
2041 79,361,541 34,957,580 -0.26% -0.89%
2042 79,167,400 34,641,778 -0.24% -0.9%
2043 78,962,964 34,324,132 -0.26% -0.92%
2044 78,743,160 34,004,074 -0.28% -0.93%
2045 78,518,131 33,680,448 -0.29% -0.95%
2046 78,293,579 33,351,499 -0.29% -0.98%
2047 78,066,226 33,017,828 -0.29% -1%
2048 77,826,011 32,680,968 -0.31% -1.02%
2049 77,578,876 32,338,515 -0.32% -1.05%
2050 77,335,610 31,990,136 -0.31% -1.08%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Germany decreased by 27,782 people (a 0.03% decline), while Ukraine lost 1,661,862 people (a 3.52% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Germany gained 271,067 (a 0.33% growth), while Ukraine's population decreased by -6,080,982 (a 13.3% decline).

Germany was ranked 14th most populous country in 2006 and is 19th in 2026. Ukraine was ranked 27th in 2006 and ranked 40th 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 Ukraine will decrease by 19.1% to 31,990,136 people and rank change from 40th to 60th.

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