After the unification of the country in 1990, 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%) are in the western federal states. The population density of Germany is distributed unevenly across the state. If in areas with developed industry (the 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 German citizens live in small towns and villages. These settlements are located throughout the country. Moreover, there are more of them in the western lands than in the eastern ones. Only a third of the inhabitants live in largecities.
The population of Germany is constantly growing. This process is carried out not due to natural growth (it does not exist in the country), but due to the excess of immigration flows over emigration. There is an influx of two categories of citizens:
- foreigners;
- settlers with German nationality.
The predominant position is occupied by the immigration flow of foreigners.
The German population lives on average 74.5 years (men) and 80.8 years (women). The characteristics of the age structure are characterized by a tendency towards an increase in citizens over sixty-five years old and a decrease in the population of children and adolescents (up to fifteen years old).
The population of Germany has a mostly homogeneous national composition. The bulk of the inhabitants of Germany are Germans. Small ethnic integrated groups of descendants of Slavic tribes are registered in the country - the Lusatian Sorbs (about sixty thousand people), the Danish minority (fifty thousand) and the Frisians (twelve thousand). By state and nationality, the German population of Germany is about seventy-five million people. Recently, the number of foreign citizens in the country is relatively stable and does not change.
The official language of Germany is German. However, Germany has a large number of dialects. They are: Bavarian and Swabian, Frisian and Mecklenburg, as well as many others. According to statistics, the Russian language inAlmost six million people own Germany to varying degrees. 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 rest of the citizens are Protestants, and only a small number (1 million) profess Orthodoxy. In addition, Muslims live in the country (2.6 million), as well as adherents of Judaism (88 thousand).
Germany has a high standard of living. It is in tenth place among the states of the world community. The unemployment rate, according to the authorities, is seven percent of the number of able-bodied citizens.
