Germany vs Turkey: Population

Germany

84.55 million people

in 2023

Turkey

87.27 million people

in 2023

Germany rank

19th

Turkey rank

18th

Population over time

Turkey currently reports 87.27 million people against 84.55 million people in Germany, a difference of 2.72 million people.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Turkey ahead.

Germany ranks 19th and Turkey ranks 18th of 238 countries.

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: 07 August 2026

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