What is the difference in population between Germany and Tanzania?

17.93 million people, with Germany ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Germany and Tanzania?

241 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2023.

Where does this data come from?

HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Population. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Germany vs Tanzania: Population

Germany

84.55 million people

in 2023

Tanzania

66.62 million people

in 2023

Germany rank

20th

Tanzania rank

23rd

Population over time

Germany
Tanzania

How they compare

Germany currently reports 84.55 million people against 66.62 million people in Tanzania, a difference of 17.93 million people.

That makes Germany's figure about 1.3 times Tanzania's.

Across all 241 years both countries report, Germany has been ahead every year.

Germany ranks 20th and Tanzania ranks 23rd of 239 countries.

Germany has averaged higher in every one of the 40 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Germany	Tanzania	Difference	Ahead
1000s	3.50 million people	800,000 people	2.70 million people	Germany
1100s	4.00 million people	1.27 million people	2.73 million people	Germany
1200s	6.00 million people	1.75 million people	4.25 million people	Germany
1300s	9.00 million people	2.23 million people	6.78 million people	Germany
1400s	6.50 million people	2.70 million people	3.80 million people	Germany
1500s	9.00 million people	1.75 million people	7.25 million people	Germany
1600s	12.00 million people	2.12 million people	9.88 million people	Germany
1700s	13.00 million people	2.50 million people	10.50 million people	Germany
1710s	13.98 million people	2.53 million people	11.44 million people	Germany
1720s	14.96 million people	2.56 million people	12.39 million people	Germany
1730s	15.94 million people	2.59 million people	13.34 million people	Germany
1740s	16.92 million people	2.63 million people	14.29 million people	Germany
1750s	17.90 million people	2.66 million people	15.24 million people	Germany
1760s	18.89 million people	2.70 million people	16.19 million people	Germany
1770s	19.89 million people	2.74 million people	17.15 million people	Germany
1780s	20.88 million people	2.78 million people	18.10 million people	Germany
1790s	21.88 million people	2.83 million people	19.05 million people	Germany
1800s	19.39 million people	3.00 million people	16.38 million people	Germany
1810s	22.81 million people	3.02 million people	19.79 million people	Germany
1820s	26.28 million people	3.31 million people	22.97 million people	Germany
1830s	29.40 million people	4.03 million people	25.37 million people	Germany
1840s	32.28 million people	4.91 million people	27.37 million people	Germany
1850s	34.85 million people	5.43 million people	29.42 million people	Germany
1860s	37.74 million people	5.38 million people	32.36 million people	Germany
1870s	41.62 million people	5.32 million people	36.30 million people	Germany
1880s	46.09 million people	5.33 million people	40.76 million people	Germany
1890s	51.72 million people	5.19 million people	46.53 million people	Germany
1900s	59.66 million people	4.87 million people	54.79 million people	Germany
1910s	63.86 million people	4.76 million people	59.10 million people	Germany
1920s	64.88 million people	5.10 million people	59.78 million people	Germany
1930s	69.40 million people	5.88 million people	63.52 million people	Germany
1940s	71.41 million people	6.89 million people	64.52 million people	Germany
1950s	70.55 million people	8.57 million people	61.98 million people	Germany
1960s	75.50 million people	11.36 million people	64.14 million people	Germany
1970s	78.47 million people	15.93 million people	62.54 million people	Germany
1980s	78.26 million people	22.22 million people	56.04 million people	Germany
1990s	81.46 million people	29.68 million people	51.78 million people	Germany
2000s	81.71 million people	38.79 million people	42.92 million people	Germany
2010s	81.99 million people	51.54 million people	30.44 million people	Germany
2020s	83.99 million people	63.78 million people	20.21 million people	Germany

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher population, Germany or Tanzania?: Germany, at 84.55 million people against 66.62 million people in Tanzania as of 2023.
What is the difference in population between Germany and Tanzania?: 17.93 million people, with Germany ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Germany and Tanzania?: 241 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2023.
How do Germany and Tanzania rank globally for population?: Germany ranks 20th and Tanzania ranks 23rd of 239 countries.
Where does this data come from?: HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Population. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator: Population
Unit: people
Source: HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 239 places, 51,002 data points, 1000–2023
Last refreshed: 18 September 2026

Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources.