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 GermanyMore Facts & FiguresNational name:
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Current government officials
Language:
German
Ethnicity/race:
German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, Italian 0.7%, Greek
0.4%, Polish 0.4%, other 4.6%
Religions:
Protestant 34%, Roman Catholic 34%, Islam 4%,
Unaffiliated or other 28%
National Holiday:
Unity Day, October 3 Literacy rate: 99% (2003 est.) Economic summary GDP/PPP (2007 est.):
$2.81 trillion; per capita $34,200. Real growth rate: 2.5%.
Inflation: 2.3%. Unemployment: 8.4%. Arable land:
34%. Agriculture: potatoes, wheat, barley, sugar beets,
fruit, cabbages; cattle, pigs, poultry. Labor force: 43.63
million; industry 33.4%, agriculture 2.8%, services 63.8% (1999).
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. Natural resources: iron ore, coal,
potash, timber, lignite, uranium, copper, natural gas, salt, nickel,
arable land. Exports: $1.361 trillion f.o.b. (2007 est.):
machinery, vehicles, chemicals, metals and manufactures, foodstuffs,
textiles. Imports: $1.21 tillion f.o.b. (2007 est.): machinery,
vehicles, chemicals, foodstuffs, textiles, metals. Major trading
partners: France, U.S., UK, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria,
Spain, China (2006). Communications:
Telephones: main lines in use: 54.2 million (2006); mobile
cellular: 84.3 million (2006). Radio broadcast stations: AM 51,
FM 767, shortwave 4 (1998). Television broadcast stations: 373
(plus 8,042 repeaters) (1995). Internet hosts: 16.494 million
(2007). Internet users: 38.6 million (2006). Transportation: Railways: total: 48,215 km
(20,278 km electrified) (2006). Highways: total: 231,581 km;
paved: 231,581 km (including 12,200 km of expressways); unpaved: 0 km
(2002). Waterways: 7,467 km (2006); note: Rhine River carries
most goods; Main-Danube Canal links North Sea and Black Sea (2004).
Ports and harbors: Bremen, Bremerhaven, Brunsbuttel, Duisburg,
Frankfurt, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Mainz, Rostock, Wilhemshaven.
Airports: 550 (2006). International
disputes: none.
Major sources and definitions
Rulers of Germany and Prussia
The Berlin Wall (1961–1990)
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