Hamburg is the youngest state, Saxony-Anhalt is the oldest state at the end of 2025

At the end of 2025, Hamburg was the youngest federal state in Germany, while the oldest population on average was in Saxony-Anhalt. This emerges from data from the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden.

As expected, younger people tend to live in the city states: According to statistics, people in Hamburg were on average 42.3 years old, followed by Berlin (42.8 years) and Bremen (43.2 years). Saxony-Anhalt, on the other hand, had the oldest population with an average of 48.4 years. The average age was also comparatively high in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (48.3 years) and Thuringia (48.2 years).

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has aged the most

Where has the population aged particularly rapidly within 15 years? According to the information, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is ahead here. The average age there rose by 2.5 years compared to 2011. The federal state with the lowest aging, however, is Bremen, where a decline of 0.7 years was recorded. “The population in the city-state became slightly younger on average,” explained the statisticians.

And what does it generally look like in Germany?

“Overall, the average age of the population has increased by a good year over the last 15 years: in 2011 it was 43.9 years, at the end of 2025 it was 45 years,” it said.

In addition, according to the data, the more rural a community in Germany is, the more it has aged over the past 15 years.

In large cities, the average age increased only slightly from 2011 to 2025: from 43.2 to 43.5 years.

In contrast, the average age in rural communities increased by 2.5 years: from 44.3 to 46.8 years.

The average age has also increased comparatively significantly in small towns: by 2.2 years from 44.1 to 46.3 years.

In medium-sized cities - with 20,000 to 100,000 inhabitants - the average age rose by 1.6 years from 43.8 to 45.4 years.

The Federal Office announced the data based on an evaluation of around 10,500 municipalities.