List of German states by population

This is a list of German states by population according to the Federal Statistical Office of Germany.

State	2020	2015	2010	2000	1990	1980	1970	1960
Baden-Württemberg	11,103,043	10,879,618	10,753,880	10,524,415	9,822,027	9,258,947	8,953,607	7,726,859
Bavaria	13,140,183	12,843,514	12,538,696	12,230,255	11,448,823	10,928,151	10,561,110	9,494,939
Berlin^[1]	3,664,088	3,520,031	3,460,725	3,382,169	3,433,695	1,896,230	2,115,311	2,202,241
Brandenburg	2,531,071	2,484,826	2,503,273	2,601,962	2,578,312
Bremen	680,130	671,489	660,706	660,225	681,665	693,846	735,452	704,287
Hamburg	1,852,478	1,787,408	1,786,448	1,715,392	1,652,363	1,645,095	1,793,640	1,836,958
Hesse	6,293,154	6,176,172	6,067,021	6,068,129	5,763,310	5,601,031	5,424,529	4,783,352
Lower Saxony	8,003,421	7,926,599	7,918,293	7,926,193	7,387,245	7,256,386	7,121,824	6,576,137
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	1,610,774	1,612,362	1,642,327	1,775,703	1,923,959
North Rhine-Westphalia	17,925,570	17,865,516	17,845,154	18,009,865	17,349,651	17,058,193	17,004,851	15,852,476
Rhineland-Palatinate	4,098,391	4,052,803	4,003,745	4,034,557	3,763,510	3,642,482	3,658,932	3,411,170
Saarland	983,991	995,597	1,017,567	1,068,703	1,072,963	1,066,299	1,121,300	1,060,493
Saxony	4,056,941	4,084,851	4,149,477	4,425,581	4,764,301
Saxony-Anhalt	2,180,684	2,245,470	2,335,006	2,615,375	2,873,957
Schleswig-Holstein	2,910,875	2,858,714	2,834,259	2,789,761	2,626,127	2,611,285	2,510,608	2,309,409
Thuringia	2,120,237	2,170,714	2,235,025	2,431,255	2,611,319
Germany^[2]	83,155,031	82,175,684	81,751,602	82,259,540	79,753,227	61,657,945	61,001,164	55,958,321

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