Germany

Facts

Population:  83,029,536 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:  0-14 years:  15.57% (male 6,635,328; female 6,289,994) 15-64 years:  67.82% (male 28,619,237; female 27,691,698) 65 years and over:  16.61% (male 5,336,664; female 8,456,615) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:  0.27% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:  9.16 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:  10.42 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:  4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth:  1.06 male(s)/female under 15 years:  1.05 male(s)/female 15-64 years:  1.03 male(s)/female 65 years and over:  0.63 male(s)/female total population:  0.96 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:  4.71 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population:  77.61 years male:  74.47 years female:  80.92 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:  1.38 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  0.1% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  37,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  600 (1999 est.)
Nationality:  noun:  German(s) adjective:  German
Ethnic groups:  German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Serbo-Croatian, Italian, Russian, Greek, Polish, Spanish)
Religions:  Protestant 38%, Roman Catholic 34%, Muslim 1.7%, unaffiliated or other 26.3%
Languages:  German
Literacy:  definition:  age 15 and over can read and write total population:  99% (1977 est.) male:  NA% female:  NA%
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $1.936 trillion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:  3% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $23,400 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  1.2% industry:  30.4% services:  68.4% (1999)
Population below poverty line:  NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):  2% (2000 est.)
Labor force:  40.5 million (1999 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:  industry 33.4%, agriculture 2.8%, services 63.8% (1999)
Unemployment rate:  9.9% (2000 est.)
Budget:  revenues:  $996 billion expenditures:  $1.036 trillion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1999 est.)
Industries:  among the world's largest and most technologically advanced producers of iron, steel, coal, cement, chemicals, machinery, vehicles, machine tools, electronics, food and beverages; shipbuilding; textiles
Industrial production growth rate:  4.7% (2000)
Electricity - production:  531.377 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:  fossil fuel:  63.29% hydro:  3.59% nuclear:  30.3% other:  2.82% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:  495.181 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:  39.5 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:  40.5 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:  potatoes, wheat, barley, sugar beets, fruit, cabbages; cattle, pigs, poultry
Exports:  $578 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:  machinery, vehicles, chemicals, metals and manufactures, foodstuffs, textiles
Exports - partners:  EU 55.3% (France 11.3%, UK 8.3%, Italy 7.3%, Netherlands 6.3%, Belgium/Luxembourg 5.1%), US 10.1%, Japan 2.0% (1999)
Imports:  $505 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:  machinery, vehicles, chemicals, foodstuffs, textiles, metals
Imports - partners:  EU 52.2% (France 10.5%, Netherlands 7.6%, Italy 7.4%, UK 6.9%, Belgium/Luxembourg 5.6%), US 8.1%, Japan 4.9% (1999)
Debt - external:  $NA Economic aid - donor: ODA, $5.6 billion (1998)
Currency:  deutsche mark (DEM); euro (EUR) note:  on 1 January 1999, the EU introduced the euro as a common currency that is now being used by financial institutions in Germany at a fixed rate of 1.95583 deutsche marks per euro and will replace the local currency for all transactions in 2002
Currency code:  DEM; EUR
Exchange rates:  euros per US dollar - 1.0659 (January 2001), 1.0854 (2000), 0.9386 (1999); deutsche marks per US dollar - 1.69 (January 1999), 1.7597 (1998), 1.7341 (1997), 1.5048 (1996)
Fiscal year:  calendar year

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.

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