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Germany

 

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 Germany
All information: Germany
 		 United States
All information: United States
 
Area:357,580 km² 9,831,510 km²
Population:83,133,000 328,240,000
Official language:German English

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Government

Government form:Federal parliamentary republic Federal presidential republic
Independent since:1955 n.Chr. 1776 n.Chr.
Capital:Berlin Washington, D.C.


Population

Inhabitants per km²:232.5 33.4
Life expectancy males:78.6 years 76.1 years
Life expectancy females:83.3 years 81.1 years
Average age:45.5 years 37.4 years
Birthrate:9.50 ‰ 11.60 ‰
Deathrate:11.50 ‰ 8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:1.50 ‰ 3.00 ‰


Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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Political stability:83 74
Civil rights:95 83
Health:96 74
Climate:22 64
Cost of Living:34 38
Popularity:62 85


Economy

Currency: Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent) US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:3.0 % 3.9 %
Inflation rate:1.45 % 1.81 %
Cost of Living:100.00 % 110.20 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:48.80 % 36.60 %
Average income:43,394 € 58,821 €
Corruption index:80 (good) 69 (moderate)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:3,448,971 Mio €41.49 M € 19,145,356 M €58.33 M €
Gross national product:3,607,437 Mio €43.39 M € 19,308,457 M €58.82 M €
Exported goods:1,617,621 M €19.46 M € 2,258,389 M €6.88 M €
Imported goods:1,418,203 M €17.06 M € 2,773,678 M €8.45 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:625,000 km7.52 km 6,586,610 km20.07 km
Railways:33,590 km0.40 km 293,564 km0.89 km
Waterways:7,467 km0.09 km 41,009 km0.12 km
Harbours:6090.007 3,6730.011
Airports:5390.006 13,5130.041


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:536.50 bn kWh6.45 m kWh 3,902.00 bn kWh11.89 m kWh
Energy production:612.80 bn kWh7.37 m kWh 4,095.00 bn kWh12.48 m kWh
Energy export:78.86 bn kWh948,602.73 kWh 9.70 bn kWh29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:28.34 bn kWh340,900.35 kWh 72.72 bn kWh221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:727.97 m t8,756.75 t 5.01 bn t15,251.98 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+49 +1
Internet domain:.de .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:40,400,000486 107,281,000327
Mobile phones:107,200,0001,290 422,000,0001,286
Internet server:20,043,000241 505,000,0001,539
Internet users:73,268,691881 290,488,378885



Healthcare system

Hospital beds/1000 inh.:8.30 2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:4.21 2.59
Diabetes sufferers:10.4 % 10.8 %
HIV sufferers:0.06 % 0.22 %
Tuberculosis sufferers:0.1 % 0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:71.0 % 79.0 %
Smokers:28.0 % 25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Germany and United States

Daytime temperatures:13.8 °C 18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:5.6 °C 7.3 °C
Water temperature:9.9 °C 17.7 °C
Relative humidity:79 % 67 %
Absolute humidity:8 g/m³ 9 g/m³
Rain days per year:118.8 85.2
Sunshine hours per day:4.7 7.2


Native languages

German:90.1 % 0.6 %
English:n/a 82.1 %
Spanish:n/a 10.7 %
Russian:3.6 % 0.2 %
Turkish:2.6 % n/a
South Slavic languages:1.4 % n/a
Chinese:n/a 0.9 %
Italian:0.7 % 0.6 %
French:n/a 0.7 %
Tagalog:n/a 0.4 %
Greek:0.4 % n/a
Korean:n/a 0.3 %
Polish:0.3 % 0.3 %
Japanese:n/a 0.2 %
Portuguese:n/a 0.2 %
Vietnamese:n/a 0.2 %
other:0.9 % 2.6 %


Religions

Christianity:58.5 % 78.5 %
nondenominational:31.0 % n/a
Islam:4.7 % 1.1 %
Jewry:0.1 % 1.8 %
Sikhism:n/a 1.6 %
Hinduism:0.1 % 1.0 %
Buddhism:0.3 % 0.7 %
Yazidism:0.3 % n/a
other:5.1 % 15.3 %