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German GDP grows in Q4 2025, ending year on positive note

03 Feb '26

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Germany's GDP grows 0.3% in Q4 2025, ends year positive

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Germany's economy has returned to modest growth at the end of 2025, with GDP rising quarter on quarter despite a turbulent year marked by weak foreign trade.
Stronger household and government consumption underpinned the recovery.
Annual output also increased slightly, while revised data showed marginally stronger growth earlier in the year, confirming a gradual stabilisation in economic momentum.

Germany’s gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 0.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2025 compared with the third quarter, after adjustment for price, seasonal and calendar effects, according to Federal Statistical Office (Destatis).

Growth in the final quarter was driven mainly by higher household and government final consumption expenditure, helping the German economy end 2025 in positive territory after a volatile year, particularly for foreign trade.

For the full year, price-adjusted GDP increased by 0.2 per cent, while the rise amounted to 0.3 per cent after price and calendar adjustment, Destatis said in a release.

On a year-on-year basis, GDP in the fourth quarter of 2025 was up 0.6 per cent in price-adjusted terms compared with the same period of 2024. After adjusting for both prices and calendar effects, growth stood at 0.4 per cent, reflecting the impact of 0.7 additional working days in the quarter.

Quarterly, price-adjusted GDP growth for the first and second quarters was revised up by 0.1 percentage points each, while the third quarter remained unchanged.

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