The German population climbed by just 100,000 to 83.6 million in 2024, authorities said on Thursday, amid a 34% drop in net migration.
The rise was down from an increase of 340,000 residents over the course of 2023, the Federal Statistical Office said.
“Net migration was again the sole cause of population growth in 2024,” the Wiesbaden-based agency said.
Germany has seen more deaths than births every year since reunification in 1990.
According to initial estimates for 2024, the birth deficit – the difference between deaths and births – was between 310,000 and 330,000.
Meanwhile, net migration, a term which covers the numbers of immigrants moving to Germany minus the number of emigrants leaving the country, fell to between 400,000 and 440,000.
The figure was a drop of at least 34%, the office said, due mostly to a fall in migration from Syria, Afghanistan, Turkey and the European Union.
