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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:82,928,000 327,167,000
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 km²:231.9 33.3
Life expectancy males:78.6 years 76.1 years
Life expectancy females:83.5 years 81.1 years
Birthrate:9.50 ‰ 11.80 ‰
Deathrate:11.30 ‰ 8.50 ‰
Migrationrate:1.50 ‰ 3.00 ‰


Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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Political stability:83 75
Civil rights:100 97
Health:98 68
Security:94 63
Climate:22 64
Cost of Living:45 36
Popularity:87 92


Economy

Currency: Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent) US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:3.2 % 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:42,063 € 56,347 €
Corruption index:80 (good) 71 (good)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:3,526,235 Mio €42.52 M € 18,351,356 M €56.09 M €
Gross national product:3,488,452 Mio €42.07 M € 18,433,513 M €56.34 M €
Exported goods:1,670,186 M €20.14 M € 2,234,305 M €6.83 M €
Imported goods:1,457,408 M €17.57 M € 2,794,991 M €8.54 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:625,000 km7.54 km 6,586,610 km20.13 km
Railways:33,590 km0.41 km 293,564 km0.90 km
Waterways:7,467 km0.09 km 41,009 km0.13 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 kWh6.47 m kWh 3,902.00 bn kWh11.93 m kWh
Energy production:612.80 bn kWh7.39 m kWh 4,095.00 bn kWh12.52 m kWh
Energy export:78.86 bn kWh950,946.29 kWh 9.70 bn kWh29,633.14 kWh
Energy imports:28.34 bn kWh341,742.56 kWh 72.72 bn kWh222,271.51 kWh
CO2 emissions:719.88 m t8,680.83 t 5.25 bn t16,059.91 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+49 +1
Internet domain:.de .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:42,500,000512 109,961,000336
Mobile phones:107,500,0001,296 422,000,0001,290
Internet server:20,043,000242 505,000,0001,544
Internet users:74,418,788897 285,506,302873



Climate

Detailed info for: Germany and United States

Daytime temperatures:13.7 °C 18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:5.6 °C 7.1 °C
Water temperature:10.0 °C 19.1 °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:4.6 7.2


Native languages

German:91.3 % 0.7 %
English:n/a 82.1 %
Spanish:n/a 10.7 %
Turkish:2.6 % n/a
South Slavic languages:1.4 % n/a
French:n/a 0.7 %
Italian:0.7 % 0.6 %
Chinese:n/a 0.6 %
Tagalog:n/a 0.4 %
Greek:0.4 % n/a
Korean:n/a 0.3 %
Polish:0.3 % 0.3 %
Portuguese:n/a 0.2 %
Japanese:n/a 0.2 %
Vietnamese:n/a 0.2 %
other:3.3 % 3.0 %


Religions

Christianity:58.5 % 78.5 %
nondenominational:31.0 % n/a
Islam:4.7 % 0.6 %
Jewry:0.1 % 1.8 %
Buddhism:0.3 % 0.7 %
Yazidism:0.1 % n/a
Hinduism:0.1 % n/a
other:5.2 % 18.4 %