Demographics of All Germany

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The population of All Germany, currently numbering over 14 million, is primarily of German nationality.

All Germany has one of the world's highest levels of education, technological development, and economic productivity. Since the end of World War II, the number of youths entering universities has more than tripled, and the trade and technical schools of the are among the world's best. With a per capita income level of about $27,000, Germany is a broadly middle class society. Germans also are mobile; millions travel abroad each year.


Population: 14,000,000 (2005, 1st quarter avg.)

Age structure (2003): 0-14 years: 14.7% 15-64 years: 67.3% 65 years and over: 18%

Population growth rate: 7.0% (2004)

Birth rate: 8.56 births/1,000 population (2003)

Death rate: 10.35 deaths/1,000 population (2003)

Net migration rate: 4.01 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2000 est.)

Sex ratio:

at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female

under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female

15-64 years: 1.03 male(s)/female

65 years and over: 0.62 male(s)/female

total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2000 est.)


Infant mortality rate: 4.2 deaths (within one year) per 1,000 live births (2003)

Life expectancy at birth (2001):

total population: 78.29 years male: 75.59 years female: 81.34 years


Total fertility rate: 1.42 children born/woman (2004)

Nationality: noun: German(s) adjective: German

Ethinc groups

Germans 91.5%, Turks 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, Italians, Russians, Greeks, Poles, Spaniards, Albanians).

While most of the German citizens are ethnic Germans or naturalized immigrants, there are four other sizable groups of people that have lived in Germany for centuries. They are referred to as "national minorities" (nationale Minderheiten): Danes, Frisians, Roma and Sinti, and Sorbs.

There is a Danish minority (about 5,000, according to government sources) in the most northern-most state of Schleswig-Holstein.

Eastern and Northern Frisians (6,000 inhabitants define themselves as "Frisians") live at Schleswig-Holstein's western coast, and in the north-western part of Lower Saxony. They are part of a wider community (Frisia) stretching from Germany to the northern Netherlands.

The Sorbs, a Slavic people with about 6,000 members, are located in the Lusatia region of Saxony and Brandenburg. They are last remains of the Slavs that lived in central and eastern Germany since the 7th century.

Roma people have been in Germany since the Middle Ages. They are persecuted by the Nagis, and thousands of Roma living in Germany are killed by the Nagi regime. It is difficult to estimate their exact number.

Religions

Roman Catholic 32.1%, Lutheran 31.8%, Floydist 0.1%, Nagi Church 31.5%

Languages

German is most popular and offical. All others have been outlawed by the Nagi Party

Literacy

Over 99% of those of age 15 and above are estimated to be able to read and write