Press release No. N035 of 27 May 2021
• Baden-Württemberg has the youngest population among the non-city Länder, while Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is aging fastest.
WIESBADEN – In 2019, the Parish of Garding on the Eiderstedt peninsula in the administrative district of Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein was the youngest municipality in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the average age of its population was 27.7 years. The oldest municipality was also located in Schleswig-Holstein. The population of Nieby on the Baltic Sea in the administrative district of Schleswig-Flensburg had the highest average age, at 64.2 years. In the whole of Germany, the average age of the population was 44.5 years in 2019. Nearly two thirds (63%) of the 277 inhabitants of the Parish of Garding were under 18 years old, and 39% of them were infants aged under 3 years. In contrast, 59% of the 130 inhabitants of Nieby were 65 years or older. Using the new Regional Atlas for Germany, it is now even easier to make such supraregional comparisons – especially at municipality level.
