Some key facts and figures about Germany's population.
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KEY FIGURES
Population: 82.2 million
Life expectancy
Men: 76 years
Women: 82 years
Population over 65: 19 percent
Population under 15: 14 percent
Annual Births 2007: 685,000
Annual Deaths 2007: 827,000
Net migration 2007: +48,000
Population Growth 2007: - 97,000
Urban population: 75 percent
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10 FACTS ABOUT DEMOGRAPHICS IN GERMANY
01. Germany has the world's 14th largest population, but by 2050, it is expected to have only the world's 26th largest.
02. Around 165,000 Germans moved abroad in 2007. Favorite destinations included Switzerland (20,000 people), the United States (14,000), Poland (10,000), and Austria (10,000).
03. The average age of German women having their first child (29 years old) is the highest in Europe.
04. By next year, 2009, an estimated 390,000 empty residences will have been torn down in eastern Germany since 1990.
05. With current birthrates and without immigration, Germany's population would drop to 24 million people by 2100.
06. An estimated 37 percent of the German population will be 60 and older by 2050.
07. The largest numbers of foreign citizens living in Germany come from Turkey (1.7 million), Italy (528,000), and Poland (384,000).
08. An average of 120,000 people per year become naturalized German citizens. The biggest countries of former citizenships are Turkey, Serbia, and Poland. Around 800,000 people of Turkish origin are German citizens.
09. Around 96 percent of Germany's over 15 million people with a "migration background" - immigrants and their descendants - live in the former West Germany or Berlin. They make up around 40 percent of the populations of the western cities of Stuttgart and Frankfurt.
10. Germany's annual average ratio of 8 births per 1,000 inhabitants is the world's lowest. The world's highest ratios are in Mali and Niger, both with over 49 births per 1,000 people.
Sources: German Federal Statistical Office, Federal Institute for Population Research, Berlin Institute for Population and Development, German Foundation for World Population, Rostock Center for the Study of Demographic Change, UN World Population Prospects, Population Reference Bureau
editor: Valdis Wish
publishing date: July 21, 2008
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