Germany
has €28,891 a year to spend (per person, after tax, adjusted for household size), works 35.0 hours a week and shares a home with 2 people. Life expectancy there is 81.2 years. Their government spends €25,639 a year per resident.
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Where Germany differs most from the EU27
everyone, typical disposable income
Median equivalised household income, everyone: household income adjusted for household size and composition. This is not personal pay; children share in household income. Labels show this chart’s age groups. Eurostat sometimes uses broader or different groups: for example, the 0–14 bar uses the source value for children under 16. The line in each column shows the EU27.
Every figure Eurostat publishes for all 27, in eight groups. Open a card for the ranking of 27, fifteen years of trend, and the age and sex splits where they exist.
Medians where possible, per-capita averages for spending. This person is a composite of published statistics, not the most common person in the country.
Eurostat publishes country of birth. It publishes nothing on ethnicity or skin colour, and most member states do not collect it — so these two shares say where residents were born, and nothing else about who they are. The figure’s skin tone is drawn with a weighting from the share born outside the EU. That is a rough proxy, not a measurement of anyone’s appearance.
€25,6391.30× EUpublic spending per resident in Germany, 2024: an average over everyone who lives there.
The same ten functions as a yearly budget per resident, next to the EU27 average.
€3,330
per resident a year · 6.4% of GDP
Germany spends 1.4 times the EU27 average on general public services.
€702
per resident a year · 1.4% of GDP
Armed forces, equipment, and military research.
€847
per resident a year · 1.6% of GDP
Police, courts, prisons, and fire services.
€2,811
per resident a year · 5.4% of GDP
Transport, energy, agriculture, and support for industry.
€294
per resident a year · 0.6% of GDP
Waste, water treatment, pollution control, and biodiversity.
€246
per resident a year · 0.5% of GDP
Social housing, water supply, and street lighting.
€3,945
per resident a year · 7.6% of GDP
Germany spends 1.3 times the EU27 average on health.
€551
per resident a year · 1.1% of GDP
Sport, libraries, broadcasting, museums, and places of worship.
€2,332
per resident a year · 4.5% of GDP
Schools, universities, and student support.
€10,583
per resident a year · 20.4% of GDP
Germany spends 1.3 times the EU27 average on social protection.
Estimated yearly contribution of one person on an average wage€27,958
An allocation model, not an earmarked flow: no euro of tax is tied to a service. It takes one Eurostat model household, adds up what it pays, and spreads that sum the way Germany spreads its public spending.
One person on an average wage, 2025.
Spread the way Germany spent in 2024:
The same split as a share of €100
Where the money comes from, 2024
Shares of all receipts from taxes and social contributions. Taxes on income (D51) hold company profits as well as wages; everything else is other taxes on production (D29, where payroll taxes sit), other current taxes (D59) and capital taxes (D91).
The model: gross minus net earnings of one Eurostat tax-benefit model case (earn_nt_net) for the direct part; take-home pay at an effective rate on consumption, taxes on products over household final consumption expenditure (gov_10a_taxag D21 over nama_10_gdp P31_S14), for the rest; and each function's share of public spending (gov_10a_exp) to spread the sum. It is not a tax calculation for anyone: the earnings are a model case rather than a real household, the consumption rate sits above the standard VAT rate because businesses, government and visitors pay taxes on products too, and public spending is funded by borrowing and by revenue that is not tax as well.
The place rather than the person: how much country there is, and what it holds for each resident living in it.
Track and tarmac per 1,000 km², the rest per resident. The chip compares each figure with the EU27.
Countries that share a border with Germany, or the nearest partners across the water.
Every number on this page comes from Eurostat (reference years 2014–2026). Data overview →
Medians where possible, per-capita averages for spending. This person is a composite of published statistics, not the most common person in the country.