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Facts

Population: 82,400,996 (July 2007 est.).

Age structure: 0-14 years: 13.9% (male 5,894,724/female 5,590,373) 15-64 years: 66.3% (male 27,811,357/female 26,790,222) 65 years and over: 19.8% (male 6,771,972/female 9,542,348) (2007 est.).

Population growth rate: -0.033% (2007 est.).

Birth rate: 8.2 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Death rate: 10.71 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Net migration rate: 2.18 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.054 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.038 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.71 male(s)/female total population: 0.966 male(s)/female (2007 est.).

Infant mortality rate: total: 4.08 deaths/1,000 live births male: 4.51 deaths/1,000 live births female: 3.62 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 78.95 years male: 75.96 years female: 82.11 years (2007 est.).

Total fertility rate: 1.4 children born/woman (2007 est.).

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.1% (2001 est.).

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 43,000 (2001 est.).

HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 1,000 (2003 est.).

Nationality: noun: German(s) adjective: German.

Ethnic groups: German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish).

Religions: Protestant 34%, Roman Catholic 34%, Muslim 3.7%, unaffiliated or other 28.3%.

Languages: German.

Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.).

GDP (purchasing power parity): $2.63 trillion (2006 est.).

GDP - real growth rate: 2.7% (2006 est.).

GDP - per capita (PPP): $31,900 (2006 est.).

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 0.9% industry: 29.1% services: 70% (2006 est.).

Labor force: 43.66 million (2006 est.).

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 2.8% industry: 33.4% services: 63.8% (1999).

Population below poverty line: 11% (2001 est.).

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 3.6% highest 10%: 25.1% (1997).

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.7% (2006 est.).

Unemployment rate: 7.1% note: this is the International Labor Organization's estimated rate for international comparisons; Germany's Federal Employment Office estimated a seasonally adjusted rate of 10.8% (2006 est.).

Budget: revenues: $1.277 trillion expenditures: $1.344 trillion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).

Agriculture - products: potatoes, wheat, barley, sugar beets, fruit, cabbages; cattle, pigs, poultry.

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: 4.4% (2006 est.).

Electricity - production: 566.9 billion kWh (2004).

Electricity - consumption: 524.6 billion kWh (2004).

Electricity - exports: 50.8 billion kWh (2004).

Electricity - imports: 48.2 billion kWh (2004).

Exports: $1.133 trillion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Exports - commodities: machinery, vehicles, chemicals, metals and manufactures, foodstuffs, textiles.

Exports - partners: France 10.2%, US 8.8%, UK 7.9%, Italy 6.9%, Netherlands 6.1%, Belgium 5.6%, Austria 5.4%, Spain 5.1% (2005).

Imports: $916.4 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Imports - commodities: machinery, vehicles, chemicals, foodstuffs, textiles, metals.

Imports - partners: France 8.7%, Netherlands 8.5%, US 6.6%, China 6.4%, UK 6.3%, Italy 5.7%, Belgium 5%, Austria 4% (2005).

Debt - external: $3.904 trillion (30 June 2006).

Economic aid - donor: ODA, $5.6 billion (1998).

Currency (code): euro (EUR) note: on 1 January 1999, the European Monetary Union introduced the euro as a common currency to be used by financial institutions of member countries; on 1 January 2002, the euro became the sole currency for everyday transactions within the member countries.

Exchange rates: euros per US dollar - 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004), 0.886 (2003), 1.0626 (2002).

Fiscal year: calendar year.