Economic size
Annual GDP, 2025
Illinois1,202 billion USD
Hamburg190.2 billion USD
U.S. selection / German selection: 6.32 : 1
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Checked 8 September 2026.
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Across the Atlantic
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IllinoisHamburg
Capitals: Springfield · Hamburg
Population
U.S.: July 2025 · Germany: December 2025
Illinois12,719,141 residents
Hamburg1,869,473 residents
U.S. Census: population · German statistical offices
U.S. selection / German selection: 6.8 : 1
Total area
U.S.: 2010 · Germany: 2023
Illinois149,995 km²
Hamburg755 km²
U.S. selection / German selection: 198.65 : 1
Illinois · Connections with Germany
46,900
Jobs at German-owned affiliates · 2024
Statewide total reported by RGIT, not employment at the examples below. Source & methodology
German business connections
- BoschManufacturing
- BayerU.S. site network
- DHL ExpressServicePoint network
Selected examples, not a ranking. Service networks are not necessarily company-owned facilities. Sources checked September 2026.
Learning across the Atlantic
9,123
Germany → United States
German students, 2024/25. Includes 1,043 participants in Optional Practical Training (OPT).
9,682
United States → Germany
U.S. study-abroad participants earning academic credit in Germany, 2023/24.
Leading U.S. destinations for German students: California, New York, Massachusetts, Florida and Pennsylvania.
National figures, not directly comparable measures. This source provides no counts by U.S. state or German Bundesland; missing breakdowns are not estimated. Open Doors 2025 · IIE
How to read this comparison
GDP measures economic output, not personal wealth or living standards. Both GDP figures cover the full year 2025 at current prices. German figures are provisional and converted from euros at the ECB 2025 average of €1 ≈ US$1.1300. This is a market-exchange-rate comparison, not a purchasing-power comparison.
Population uses July 1, 2025 U.S. estimates and German year-end 2025 counts. Area includes land and water and uses U.S. Census 2010 and German 2023 geography; definitions differ. These are scale comparisons, not growth rates. The U.S. territories remain available in the explorer above but are not included here without a matching 2025 GDP series.
German Länder and U.S. states are both constituent units of federal systems, but their powers and institutions differ. Hamburg, Bremen and Berlin are city-states; Bremen includes Bremen and Bremerhaven. D.C. is a federal district, not a state.
German boundaries: BKG via geoBoundaries (2021), dl-de/by-2-0. Geometry simplified and projected for display. U.S. map: U.S. Census / U.S. Atlas.
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