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Germany / Deutschland


Population: 83 million

Age structure: 0-14 years: 16 %; 15-64 years: 68% ;65 years and over: 16%

Population growth rate: 0.27%

Birth rate: 9.16 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 10.42 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 4 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 4.71 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy: 77 years

Total fertility rate: 1.38 children born/woman

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.)

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%

Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99%

GDP: purchasing power parity - $2 trillion

GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $23,400

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture - 1.2%; industry - 30.4% ; services - 68.4%

Labor force: 40.5 million; by occupation: industry 33.4%, agriculture 2.8%, services 63.8% (1999) ; Unemployment rate: 9.9%

Budget: revenues: $996 billion expenditures: $1.036 trillion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1999 est.)

Exports: $578 billion; commodities: machinery, vehicles, chemicals, metals and manufactures, foodstuffs, textiles; 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; commodities: machinery, vehicles, chemicals, foodstuffs, textiles, metals; 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)