World Enivironmental Issues Brief

  • LARGE AREAS SUBJECT TO OVERPOPULATION
  • INDUSTRIAL DISASTERS
  • POLLUTION (air, water, acid rain, toxic substances)
  • LOSS OF VEGETATION (overgrazing, deforestation, desertification)
  • LOSS OF WILDLIFE
  • SOIL DEGRADATION
  • SOIL DEPLETION
  • EROSION
  • GLOBAL WARMING

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Germany

— Current Environmental Issues —
emissions from coal-burning utilities and industries contribute to air pollution; acid rain, resulting from sulfur dioxide emissions, is damaging forests; pollution in the Baltic Sea from raw sewage and industrial effluents from rivers in eastern Germany; hazardous waste disposal; government established a mechanism for ending the use of nuclear power over the next 15 years; government working to meet EU commitment to identify nature preservation areas in line with the EUs Flora, Fauna, and Habitat directive

— Health Indicators —
HIV / AIDS prevalancy rate: 0.1
Fertility Rate: 1.4
Infant Mortality Rate: 4.1
Life Expectancy at Birth: Male: 76.0
Life Expectancy at Birth: Female: 82.0
Life Expectancy at Birth: Total Population: 79.0

— Population —
Population Total: 82,400,996
Population Growth Rate: -0.0

— Economic Indicators —
GDP Real Growth Rate: 2.2
Military Expendatures Percent of GDP: 1.5
Unemployment Rate: 7.1
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.7
GDP Per Capita PPP: 31,400
Population Below Poverty Line: N/R
    (Definitions of poverty vary considerably among nations.)

— Education and Communications —
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Bordering country: Austria
Bordering country: Belgium
Bordering country: Czech Republic
Bordering country: Denmark
Bordering country: France
Bordering country: Luxembourg
Bordering country: Netherlands
Bordering country: Poland
Bordering country: Switzerland

— Background —
As Europes largest economy and second most populous nation, Germany is a key member of the continents economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the Communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring Eastern productivity and wages up to Western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the euro.