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Age-Gender Distribution in Germany
In the early 1990s, an age-gender distribution pyramid of unified Germany's
population displayed at its apex the legacy of heavy war casualties: a
preponderance of elderly women too great to be explained by women's greater
longevity. Official statistics show that in 1990 there were approximately
2.7 million more females than males (41.2 million versus 38.5 million)
in Germany. In the same year, so many wives had outlived their husbands,
either because of war deaths or because of the lower life expectancy of
males, that the 4.9 million elderly widows in the country accounted for
approximately 6 percent of the total population. Population specialists
have forecast the transformation of the pyramid into a mushroom, as the
effect of slackening birth rates pushes the population bulge higher up
the age categories. In 1990 about 50 percent of the population was under
thirty-seven years of age.
The progressive aging of Germany's population has been rapid. In 1970
those aged seventeen or younger made up 27.2 percent of the population,
those aged eighteen to sixty-five accounted for 59.1 percent, and those
aged sixty-five and older were 13.7 percent. By 1990 these shares had
changed to 19.2 percent, 65.8 percent, and 15 percent, respectively. The
implications of this trend for social welfare and security are a cause
of concern. In the early 1990s, one pensioner was financed by three employees.
If present trends continue, forecasts indicate that by 2030 as much as
28 percent of Germany's population will be elderly, and there will be
a 1:1 ratio between pensioners and workers.
- Population
- Immigration
- Women In Society
- Marriage
- Fertility
- Mortality
- Age-Gender Distribution
- Social Structure
- Religion
- Urbanization
- Geography (lands and
capitals, climate)
- Society (population, religion,
marriage, urbanization, social structure, immigration)
- Education (elementary,
junior, senior, vocational, higher)
- Economy (the Economic
Miracle, financial system, Bundesbank, business culture)
- Politics (government,
the Chancellor, the President, parties, Bundestag)
- Mass Media (newspapers,
radio and TV)
- Armed Forces (army,
navy, air forces, police)
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