GDP growth
%0.2%up+0.74
World Bank NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG (opens in new tab) · data year 2025 (vs 2024) · updated 2026-10-08
Europe / DEU
Germany
How Germany's economy is moving, sector by sector, with every number sourced.
Reichstag, Berlin · Photo: Jürgen Matern (opens in new tab) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · colour-graded · credits
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Germany Overview dashboard
Inflation (CPI)
%2.2%down-0.08
World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG (opens in new tab) · data year 2025 (vs 2024) · updated 2026-10-08
Unemployment
% labour force3.7%up+0.31
World Bank SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS (opens in new tab) · data year 2025 (vs 2024) · updated 2026-10-08
GDP per capita
US$60,496up+4393
World Bank NY.GDP.PCAP.CD (opens in new tab) · data year 2025 (vs 2024) · updated 2026-10-08
Central govt debt
% GDPNo World Bank data for this country.
Current account
% GDP4.4%down-1.45
World Bank BN.CAB.XOKA.GD.ZS (opens in new tab) · data year 2025 (vs 2024) · updated 2026-10-08
Long-run trend
Annual · World Bank WDIFull series 2000–latest so no single baseline year is cherry-picked.
Claim checksEach number with its counterweight
Claim check
"Germany's exports are booming."
The data
Exports (% GDP)
- 2015
- 42.6%
- 2025
- 40.4%
decrease-2.1 change
Counter-metric
Imports (% GDP)
- 2015
- 35.2%
- 2025
- 38.1%
increase+2.9 change
Exports moved -2.1 pts of GDP; imports moved +2.9 pts. Look at both before calling it a boom.
Sources: World Bank NE.EXP.GNFS.ZS, NE.IMP.GNFS.ZS. Claim wording is a generic template, not a quote.
Claim check
"We've massively increased health spending."
The data
Health expenditure (% GDP)
- 2014
- 10.8%
- 2024
- 12.3%
increase+1.5 change
Counter-metric
Infant mortality (per 1,000 births)
- 2014
- 3.3
- 2024
- 3.1
decrease-0.2 change
Spending share changed +1.5 pts; infant mortality changed -0.2 per 1,000. Outcomes are the counterweight to inputs.
Sources: World Bank SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS, SP.DYN.IMRT.IN. Claim wording is a generic template, not a quote.
Claim check
"Manufacturing is the engine of growth."
The data
Manufacturing value added (% GDP)
- 2015
- 20.1%
- 2025
- 17.6%
decrease-2.5 change
Counter-metric
Industry value added (% GDP)
- 2015
- 25.9%
- 2025
- 25.2%
decrease-0.7 change
Manufacturing share of GDP changed -2.5 pts vs industry overall -0.7 pts.
Sources: World Bank NV.IND.MANF.ZS, NV.IND.TOTL.ZS. Claim wording is a generic template, not a quote.
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