Renting a new apartment now takes a bigger share of pay in western Germany (24.0%) than in the East excl. Berlin (21.6%). In 2014 it was the other way around: since then, western rents rose 61%, net wages only 36%

17 million people in Germany were born abroad. This puts Germany in second place worldwide, just behind the USA. The largest group by country of origin is from Poland, with 1.9 million, followed by Turkey (1.5 million), Ukraine (1.4 million) and Russia (1.1 million).

Depending on the city, people using buses and trains in Germany pay almost double for virtually the same service. A standard monthly pass for the city centre costs €71.40 in Munich, compared with €140.50 in Cologne and Bonn.

In 2024, around 202,700 employees subject to social security contributions were resident in one of the nine neighbouring countries and worked in Germany. Since 2011, this figure has more than doubled.

According to police crime statistics, the proportion of non-German suspects stands at 34.3 %. According to an analysis by Prof. Thomas Hestermann, in newspaper reports that mention the suspect’s background, the figure is 90.8 %.

The German parcel market has almost doubled since 2017. Revenues rose from €8.04 billion to €17.4 billion in 2025, an increase of 116.41 %. In 2024, an estimated 3.997 billion parcels were sent, equating to around 48 parcels per person.

Between 2007 and 2024, the stock of social housing in Germany fell from 2.03 million to just 1.05 million. This represents a decline of 48.6 per cent; in other words, almost one in two social housing units has been lost in less than two decades.

Nuclear off at home, nuclear on import: Germany's domestic reactors hit zero in 2024, but the nuclear share in its power imports has been rising since 2022. It's not a comeback, it's the European electricity market.

One in six people aged between 15 and 24 was unemployed in June 2025 on average across the EU, but the differences are enormous. Estonia tops the statistics at 26.9 % followed by Spain 24 % and Sweden 23.8 %. At the other end of the scale are Malta at 6.2 % and Germany at 6.3 %.

In 17 out of 19 European countries, more people are leaving than returning. Germany tops the list with a net loss of 91,000 people in 2024, followed by Italy with just under 65,000 and Spain with over 31,000.