Demographics

Location: Central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark. Surface area: total 357,021 sq km land 349,223 sq km water 7,798 sq km Land use: arable land: 33.13% permanent crops: 0.6% other: 66.27% (2005) Capital city: Berlin Population: 82,422,299 (July 2006 est.) Gross domestic production (GDP) per capita: $30,400 (2005 est.) GDP composition by: agriculture 0.9% Industry 29.6% Service 69.5% (2005 est.) GDP: 0.9% (2005 est.