The population of Germany. Basic data

After the unification of the country in 1919, the population of Germany was about eighty million people. The number of people living in Germany today has increased to 82 million.

The bulk of the country's citizens (79%) is in the western federal states. The density of the population of Germany is distributed unevenly across the territory of the state. If in the areas with developed industry (agglomerations of the Ruhr and the Rhine) there are one thousand one hundred people per square kilometer, then in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania there are only seventy-six citizens per km2. At the same time, Germany ranks fourth in Europe in terms of population density (231 people per km2).

Most of the citizens of Germany live in small towns and villages. These settlements are located throughout the country. And in the western lands there are more of them than in the eastern lands. Only a third of the population is in large cities.

The population of Germany is constantly growing. This process is not carried out at the expense of natural growth (it is not in the country), but due to the excess of immigration flows over emigration. There is an influx of two categories of citizens:

- foreigners;

- immigrants with German nationality.

The immigration flow of foreigners occupies the predominant position.

The population of Germany on average lives 74.5 years (men) and 80.8 years (women). Characteristics of the age structure is characterized by a tendency to increase citizens over sixty-five years and reduce the population of children and adolescents (up to fifteen years).

The population of Germany has basically a homogeneous national composition. The bulk of the inhabitants of Germany are Germans. In the country there are registered small ethnic integrated groups of descendants of Slavic tribes - Lusatian sorbs (about sixty thousand people), Danish minority (fifty thousand) and friezes (twelve thousand). According to state and nationality, the German population of Germany is about seventy-five million people. Recently, the number of foreign nationals in the country is relatively stable and does not change.

The official language of Germany is German. However, in Germany there is a large number of dialects. They are: Bavarian and Swabian, Frisian and Mecklenburg, and many others. According to statistics, almost six million people in various degrees speak Russian in Germany. Half of them are immigrants from the former USSR.

Most of the inhabitants of Germany (about fifty-five million people) adhere to the Christian faith. Almost half of them are Catholics, and the remaining citizens are Protestants, and only a small number (1 million) profess Orthodoxy. In addition, the country is home to Muslims (2.6 million), as well as adherents of Judaism (88 thousand).

The population of Germany has a high standard of living. It is on the tenth place among the states of the world community. The unemployment rate according to official bodies is seven percent of the number of able-bodied citizens.