Press Number and proportion of young people aged between 15 and 24 years at all-time low

Press release No. N 046 of 25 July 2022

  • One in ten people in Germany were between 15 and 24 years old at the end of 2021, while 40 years ago it was one in six people
  • Proportion of young people lowest in east German Länder in 2021

WIESBADEN – The number of young people living in Germany is lower than ever. At the end of 2021, just over 8.3 million people were between 15 and 24 years old. This is a proportion of 10.0% of the total population, as reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) to mark the start of a three-week series of releases on the European year of youth.

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