GDP per capita in Berlin, Germany
GDP per capita in Berlin, Germany stood at 59,097 EUR in 2025, according to Working Group Regional Accounts of the Federal States (Arbeitskreis VGR der Länder), Statistical Offices of the Federation and the Länder. It is one of the indicators in the GDP by federal state table (Value · Annual), with a complete series running from 1991 to 2025. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the GDP by federal state table
| Indicator | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 53,516 | 51,834 | 50,660 | 48,339 | 44,910 | 42,017 | 43,031 | 41,799 | 40,629 | 39,029 | |
| Berlin | 59,097 | 56,739 | 54,762 | 51,735 | 47,919 | 44,769 | 44,846 | 42,889 | 40,956 | 39,063 | |
| Brandenburg | 40,759 | 39,665 | 38,478 | 35,887 | 32,386 | 30,461 | 30,958 | 29,748 | 29,042 | 27,734 |
Understanding GDP per capita in Berlin, Germany
Focusing specifically on the administrative boundaries of the capital city, this metric distributes total localized nominal economic output across its officially registered resident population. The underlying aggregate includes all goods and services produced within the city limits at prevailing current prices, entirely retaining the effects of local inflation and currency valuation. It acts as a standardized measure of urban economic density rather than a simple tally of total market size. Differentiating itself from broad regional composites, this row isolates the intense concentration of administrative, service, and commercial activities inherent to the municipal territory, making it directly comparable to less densely populated federal states.
Because the dataset utilizes unadjusted market prices, evaluating year-on-year changes reveals a mixture of actual output expansion and pure price-level adjustments. Successive data vintages frequently incorporate revisions that account for late corporate tax filings as well as continuous corrections to the highly fluid urban population register. The most severe pitfall when analyzing this specific city-state indicator is the commuter distortion; hundreds of thousands of workers cross into the municipal boundaries daily to generate output, yet they are excluded from the population denominator, significantly pushing the reported per-person average upward.
Frequently asked questions
- How do commuters affect the final calculated number?
- Commuters generate output that is counted in the total, but they are excluded from the resident population denominator, naturally inflating the result.
- Does this dataset provide an inflation-adjusted view of the economy?
- No, the series relies on current market prices and makes no downward adjustments for inflation.
- Does the metric include the output of federal government operations?
- Yes, all value added by public administration entities located within the city limits is fully incorporated.