Germany
German households are getting smaller
German households are getting smaller. In fact, the number of single households across the country increased by 46 percent since 1991 according to the Federal Statistics Office. The following infographic shows that in 1991, the average German household had 2.27 members and in 2018, that had fallen to just 1.99.
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This chart shows the average number of household members in federal states.
Number of households in Germany from 2010 to 2024, by size (in millions)
Number of one-person households in Germany from 1991 to 2024 (in thousands)
Share of Germany's population living in a single-person household from 2007 to 2016
Number of families with children in households (no age limit) in Germany in 2024, by number of children (in 1,000s)
Share of millennials compared to the population in households in Germany in 2021, by number of persons
Men and women by number of children under the age of 14 per household in Germany compared to the general population in 2021
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