Germany in numbers.
The data behind the calculators. Five sections covering the German economy: the broad picture, wages and inflation, markets, housing, pensions and demography. Energy data lives on the electricity page. All charts use official data from Destatis, Bundesbank, BNetzA and ECB.
The economy overall.
Two years of recession ended in 2025; growth returned to a slow but positive trajectory. Quarterly GDP, the Ifo business climate index, and unemployment, the basic gauges of where the economy is right now and where it's heading.
Recession ended; growth returned slowly.
The headline mood of German business.
Joblessness vs the long-term band.
Wages & inflation.
Real wages, what your salary buys after inflation, are the line that matters. German CPI rose 22% from 2020 to 2025; nominal wages rose roughly the same, so real purchasing power is essentially flat over half a decade. The cumulative bite of the 2022-2023 inflation spike still shapes everyone's budget.
Inflation has cooled; the cumulative bite remains.
Headline inflation by year.
What households expect to spend.
Markets.
German equity markets in their longer context. The DAX as the country's blue-chip benchmark, set against international comparators. For asset-by-asset comparison since 2000, including how the same euros would have fared in cash, gold, real estate and silver, see the investment comparison calculator.
Three benchmarks, side by side.
VW · BMW · Mercedes · Porsche.
Output trends in German manufacturing.
Housing.
German residential property prices and the rate environment that shapes mortgages. The housing market is the single largest financial decision most German households ever make. For the actual rent-vs-buy comparison with crossover-year math, see the rent vs buy calculator.
Prices rose 90% in a decade, then corrected sharply.
The rate behind mortgage pricing.
The same data, expanded.
Pensions & demography.
Population is the long arc behind German pensions: an ageing population means more retirees claiming, fewer workers contributing, and a Rentenwert that has to stretch further. The old-age dependency ratio has nearly doubled since 1970. The pension gap calculator with full Rentenformel projection ships in v0.19.0.