Population on December, 31, of the respective year. Classification: years, region, age, sex, nationality (on the basis of the census FRG 1987, GDR 1990)

Region	Year (descending)
	1990	1995	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012
Germany	79,753,227	81,817,499	82,259,540	82,437,995	81,751,602	81,843,743	82,020,578
Schleswig-Holstein	2,626,127	2,725,461	2,789,761	2,832,950	2,834,259	2,837,641	2,841,433
Hamburg	1,652,363	1,707,901	1,715,392	1,743,627	1,786,448	1,798,836	1,814,597
Lower Saxony	7,387,245	7,780,422	7,926,193	7,993,946	7,918,293	7,913,502	7,916,913
Bremen	681,665	679,757	660,225	663,467	660,706	661,301	663,543
North Rhine-Westphalia	17,349,651	17,893,045	18,009,865	18,058,105	17,845,154	17,841,956	17,848,113
Hesse	5,763,310	6,009,913	6,068,129	6,092,354	6,067,021	6,092,126	6,114,686
Rhineland-Palatinate	3,763,510	3,977,919	4,034,557	4,058,843	4,003,745	3,999,117	3,998,702
Baden-Wurttemberg	9,822,027	10,319,367	10,524,415	10,735,701	10,753,880	10,786,227	10,840,832
Bavaria	11,448,823	11,993,484	12,230,255	12,468,726	12,538,696	12,595,891	12,669,492
Saarland	1,072,963	1,084,370	1,068,703	1,050,293	1,017,567	1,013,352	1,009,506
Berlin	3,433,695	3,471,418	3,382,169	3,395,189	3,460,725	3,501,872	3,545,685
Brandenburg	2,578,312	2,542,042	2,601,962	2,559,483	2,503,273	2,495,635	2,491,514
Mecklenburg Western Pomerania	1,923,959	1,823,084	1,775,703	1,707,266	1,642,327	1,634,734	1,627,901
Saxony	4,764,301	4,566,603	4,425,581	4,273,754	4,149,477	4,137,051	4,132,291
Saxony Anhalt	2,873,957	2,738,928	2,615,375	2,469,716	2,335,006	2,313,280	2,295,657
Thuringia	2,611,319	2,503,785	2,431,255	2,334,575	2,235,025	2,221,222	2,209,713
Former federal territory	63,725,653	66,341,950	67,140,010	.	.	.	.
New Länder and East Berlin	16,027,574	15,475,549	15,119,530	.	.	.	.
Former federal territory excluding West Berlin	61,567,684	64,171,639	65,027,495	65,698,012	65,425,769	65,539,949	65,717,817
Former federal territory and East Berlin	65,001,379	67,643,057	68,409,664	69,093,201	68,886,494	69,041,821	69,263,502
New Länder excluding East Berlin	14,751,848	14,174,442	13,849,876	13,344,794	12,865,108	12,801,922	12,757,076

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• The population numbers are based on the update of the state of the population on the basis of earlier counts (census Former Federal Republic of Germany 1987, German Democratic Republic 1990.)
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