# Regions of Germany (NUTS 2) by natural population change, 2024

All 38 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `natural_change`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Live births minus deaths during the year. A negative value means more deaths than births (Eurostat).
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Population change, natural change of population, by NUTS 2 and 3 region (demo_r_gind3) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_r_gind3/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Eurostat. Population change, natural change of population, by NUTS 2 and 3 region (demo_r_gind3). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_r_gind3/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/natural-population-change/germany-regions

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Hamburg | -1,038 |
| 2 | Bremen | -2,144 |
| 3 | Trier | -2,357 |
| 4 | Tübingen | -2,751 |
| 5 | Oberpfalz | -3,176 |
| 6 | Oberbayern | -3,285 |
| 7 | Schwaben | -3,635 |
| 8 | Niederbayern | -3,929 |
| 9 | Berlin | -3,937 |
| 10 | Gießen | -4,289 |
| 11 | Unterfranken | -4,725 |
| 12 | Mittelfranken | -5,017 |
| 13 | Freiburg | -5,191 |
| 14 | Leipzig | -5,926 |
| 15 | Oberfranken | -5,929 |
| 16 | Stuttgart | -6,230 |
| 17 | Kassel | -6,713 |
| 18 | Detmold | -6,768 |
| 19 | Karlsruhe | -6,904 |
| 20 | Saarland | -6,955 |
| 21 | Rheinhessen-Pfalz | -7,355 |
| 22 | Darmstadt | -7,456 |
| 23 | Koblenz | -7,839 |
| 24 | Münster | -8,232 |
| 25 | Braunschweig | -8,687 |
| 26 | Lüneburg | -8,959 |
| 27 | Weser-Ems | -9,255 |
| 28 | Hannover | -10,587 |
| 29 | Dresden | -11,854 |
| 30 | Köln | -13,371 |
| 31 | Chemnitz | -14,491 |
| 32 | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | -14,770 |
| 33 | Schleswig-Holstein | -17,083 |
| 34 | Arnsberg | -17,202 |
| 35 | Thüringen | -18,651 |
| 36 | Brandenburg | -20,100 |
| 37 | Sachsen-Anhalt | -21,679 |
| 38 | Düsseldorf | -22,171 |