- Population......................................................................82,369,552
(July 2008 est.)
- Population growth rate ..................................................................0.044%
(2008 est.)
- Birth rate.......................................................8.18
births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
- Death rate.................................................10.8
deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.)
- Net migration rate................................2.19
migrant(s)/1,000 population (2008 est.)
- Ethnic groups..........German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish)
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Member of what is now the European Union since 1952. |
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