Press release No. 388 of 30 October 2025
Gross domestic product (GDP), 3rd quarter of 2025
0.0% on the previous quarter (price, seasonally and calendar adjusted)
+0.3% on the same quarter a year earlier (price adjusted)
+0.3% on the same quarter a year earlier (price and calendar adjusted)
WIESBADEN – The gross domestic product (GDP) was unchanged (0.0%) in the 3rd quarter of 2025 compared with the 2nd quarter of 2025 - after adjustment for price, seasonal and calendar variations – following a decrease (by a revised -0.2% in the 2nd quarter of 2025 from the previous quarter; previously: -0.3%). Based on the provisional results available, gross fixed capital formation in machinery and equipment developed positively. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) further reports that exports, by contrast, were down compared with the previous quarter.
Gross domestic product up year on year
GDP in the 3rd quarter of 2025 increased by a price adjusted 0.3% compared with the 3rd quarter of 2024. After price and calendar adjustment, GDP was also up 0.3% on the same quarter a year earlier.
Revision of previous results
In addition to calculating first data for the third quarter of 2025, as usual the Federal Statistical Office also reviewed the results published earlier for the previous quarters and included new statistical information in the calculations for the first and second quarter of 2025. As a result, the rate of change of the price-adjusted GDP was revised upwards by 0.1 percentage points for the second quarter of 2025. Detailed data on the recalculations are shown in the table comparing old and new figures at the end of this press release.
Methodological notes:
The differing comparative periods must be taken into account in all press releases on short-term indicators. Short-term economic monitoring focuses on comparisons of seasonally and calendar adjusted figures with those of the previous month or quarter. These reflect short-term economic trends. Year-on-year comparisons enable long-term comparisons of levels and are hardly influenced by seasonal fluctuations.
| Unadjusted figures | Figures according to X13 price adjusted | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At current prices | Price adjusted, chain-linked | Seasonally and calendar adjusted | Calendar adjusted | |||||
| EUR billion | % 1 | 2020 = 100 | % 1 | 2020 = 100 | % 2 | % 1 3 | ||
| 1 Change on the previous year or on the same quarter of the previous year in % 2 Change on the previous year or on the previous quarter in %. 3 For full years, the calendar adjusted values are equal to the seasonally and calendar adjusted values (except for rounding discrepancies). qtr = quarter | ||||||||
| 2024 | 4,328.97 | 2.6 | 104.35 | -0.5 | 104.41 | -0.5 | -0.5 | |
| 2024 | 1st qtr | 1,071.63 | 2.7 | 104.57 | -1.1 | 104.55 | -0.1 | -0.4 |
| 2nd qtr | 1,063.85 | 3.1 | 102.74 | -0.3 | 104.28 | -0.3 | -0.7 | |
| 3rd qtr | 1,083.07 | 2.6 | 104.58 | -0.2 | 104.30 | 0.0 | -0.6 | |
| 4th qtr | 1,110.42 | 2.0 | 105.50 | -0.4 | 104.49 | 0.2 | -0.2 | |
| 2025 | 1st qtr | 1,098.21 | 2.5 | 104.58 | 0.0 | 104.81 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| 2nd qtr | 1,094.32 | 2.9 | 102.63 | -0.1 | 104.59 | -0.2 | 0.3 | |
| 3rd qtr | 1,119.93 | 3.4 | 104.90 | 0.3 | 104.59 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
| New result | Previous result | Difference | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Figures adjusted for seasonal and calendar effects using X13 | Unadjusted figures | Figures adjusted for seasonal and calendar effects using X13 | Unadjusted figures | Figures adjusted for seasonal and calendar effects using X13 | Unadjusted figures | ||
| 1 Seasonally and calendar adjusted figures: change on the previous year or on the previous quarter unadjusted figures: change on the previous year or on the same quarter of the previous year qtr = quarter | |||||||
| Change, percent 1 | Percentage points | ||||||
| 2025 | 1st qtr | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 2nd qtr | -0.2 | -0.1 | -0.3 | -0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
| 3rd qtr | 0.0 | 0.3 | x | x | x | x | |
More information:
Detailed results for the third quarter of 2025 will be released by the Federal Statistical Office on 25 November 2025.
A long time series containing quarterly results on the gross domestic product since the first quarter of 1970 is available in the "Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnungen” (only in German) statistical report.
Germany's GDP can also be found on the Economic Dashboard, which is part of Dashboard Germany (www.dashboard-deutschland.de (only in German). In this data portal, the Federal Statistical Office brings together up-to-date indicators from official statistics producers and other data providers on the topics of the economy, finance, the labour market, construction, housing, energy and Ukraine. The portal also contains the Economic Pulse Monitor (Pulsmesser Wirtschaft) (only in German) tool for real-time economic monitoring.
