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According to preliminary results from the Federal Statistical Office, around one million people will have died in Germany in 2025. That is 4,600 cases or 0.5 percent fewer than the year before. This means that the number of deaths is largely at the same level as the previous year, despite the growing proportion of older people.
Due to the increasing proportion of older people, an annual increase in the number of deaths has actually been expected for more than 20 years. However Life expectancy increased until the start of the corona pandemic. This effect weakened the influence of aging on death rates, as the Federal Office announced.
During the pandemic from 2020 to 2022, the increase in the death rate was more pronounced than in almost all previous years, which also life expectancy fell. Around 1.07 million deaths were recorded in 2022. In 2023 and 2024 the numbers fell significantly again.
Life expectancy will continue to increase
At the same time, it rose Life expectancy increased again and reached the pre-Corona level. However, in 2024 it was still slightly below the previous trend. The first results for 2025 now show that the number of deaths has remained largely stable compared to the previous year. The Life expectancy According to the Federal Office, it is likely to have continued to rise.
The most deaths in 2025 occurred in January with 98,541, the fewest in September with 74,223. As the year progressed, the number of deaths was regularly below the comparative values of previous years, particularly clearly in December: there they were 13 percent below the average of the four previous years.
This decline at the end of the year is according to the Federal Statistical Office This was mainly due to the fact that the number of deaths during the corona pandemic was unusually high at the end of the year. This seasonal pattern now seems to be overcome again, and there is a return to the seasonal patterns before the pandemic.
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