Germany - gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in current prices 2028

Germany’s GDP per capita stood at almost 48,756.31 U.S. dollars in 2022. Germany ranked among the top 20 countries worldwide with the highest GDP per capita in 2021 – Luxembourg, Ireland and Switzerland were ranked the top three nations.

Rising annual income in Germany

The average annual wage in Germany has increased by around 5,000 euros since 2000, reaching in excess of 39,000 euros in 2016. Germany had the tenth-highest average annual wage among selected European Union countries in 2017, ranking between France and the United Kingdom.

Growing employment

More than two thirds of the working population in Germany are employed in the service sector, which generated the greatest share of the country’s GDP in 2018. Unemployment in Germany soared to its highest level in decades in 2005, but the rate has since dropped to below 3.5 percent. The youth unemployment rate in Germany has more than halved since 2005 and currently stands around 6.5 percent.

Germany: Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in current prices from 1987 to 2028 (in U.S. dollars)

Characteristic	GDP per capita
2028*	65,212.39
2027*	63,592.9
2026*	61,807.18
2025*	59,134.89
2024*	56,036.84
2023*	52,823.58
2022	48,756.31
2021	51,460.99
2020	46,711.98
2019	46,810.28
2018	47,961.18
2017	44,636.83
2016	42,124.2
2015	41,107.1
2014	48,035.95
2013	46,299.23
2012	43,883.39
2011	46,697.38
2010	42,379.71
2009	42,338.84
2008	46,367.72
2007	42,299.86
2006	36,894.47
2005	35,020.2
2004	34,534.81
2003	30,668.85
2002	25,460.33
2001	23,869.77
2000	23,924.88
1999	26,984.24
1998	27,528.16
1997	27,170.75
1996	30,664.39
1995	31,829.61
1994	27,233.72
1993	25,602.88
1992	26,538.13
1991	23,453.06
1990	20,249.14
1989	16,232.12
1988	16,514.65
1987	15,411.53