Press release No. 035 of 30 January 2026
Gross domestic product (GDP), 4th quarter of 2025
0.3% on the previous quarter (price, seasonally and calendar adjusted)
0.6% on the same quarter a year earlier (price adjusted)
0.4% on the same quarter a year earlier (price and calendar adjusted)
WIESBADEN – The gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 0.3% in the fourth quarter of 2025 compared with the third quarter of 2025 after adjustment for price, seasonal and calendar variations. In particular, household and government final consumption expenditure increased. The German economy thus ended 2025 in positive territory after a turbulent year, particularly for foreign trade. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that, overall, price adjusted GDP rose by 0.2% in 2025. After price and calendar adjustment, the increase amounted to 0.3%. The Federal Statistical Office therefore confirms its first estimate for the annual GDP figure, which was released on 15 January 2026 (see Press release no. 17/2026).
Gross domestic product also up year on year
GDP in the fourth quarter of 2025 was up a price adjusted 0.6% compared with the fourth quarter of 2024. The increase was smaller (+0.4%) after price and calendar adjustment as there were 0.7 more working days than in the same period a year earlier.
Revision of previous results
In addition to calculating data for the fourth quarter of 2025, as usual the Federal Statistical Office also reviewed the results published earlier and included new statistical information in the calculations for the remaining quarters of 2025. Compared with the figures previously published, this resulted in an increase of 0.1 percentage points for quarterly, price adjusted GDP in the first two quarters of the year; the third quarter remained unchanged. 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 | ||||||||
| 2025 | 4,469.88 | 3.3 | 104.59 | 0.2 | 104.77 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
| 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 | 1,101.21 | 2.8 | 104.63 | 0.1 | 104.86 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| 2nd qtr | 1,095.62 | 3.0 | 102.69 | 0.0 | 104.65 | -0.2 | 0.3 | |
| 3rd qtr | 1,120.33 | 3.4 | 104.93 | 0.3 | 104.62 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
| 4th qtr | 1,152.72 | 3.8 | 106.12 | 0.6 | 104.95 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
| 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 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| 2nd qtr | -0.2 | 0.0 | -0.2 | -0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
| 3rd qtr | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| 4th qtr | 0.3 | 0.6 | x | x | x | x | |
More information:
Detailed results for the fourth quarter of 2025 will be released by the Federal Statistical Office on 25 February 2026.
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.