Climate | We have temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm mountain (foehn) wind |
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Revenue from forest resources | 0.03% of GDP (2018 est.) |
Revenue from coal | 0.02% of GDP (2018 est.) |
Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 51.046 million tons (2015 est.) |
Total renewable water resources | 154 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
Major rivers (by length in km) | Donau (Danube) river source (shared with Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania [m]) - 2,888 km; Elbe river mouth (shared with Czechia [s]) - 1,252 km; Rhein (Rhine) (shared with Switzerland [s], France, and Netherlands [m]) - 1,233 km note – [s] after country name indicates river source; [m] after country name indicates river mouth |
Total water withdrawal | |
Municipal | 10.4 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
Industrial | 17.68 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
Agricultural | 400 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
Air pollutants | |
Particulate matter emissions | 10.73 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
Carbon dioxide emissions | 727.97 megatons (2016 est.) |
Methane emissions | 49.92 megatons (2020 est.) |
Land Use | |
Agricultural land | 48% (2018 est.) |
Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 34.1% (2018 est.) |
Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 0.6% (2018 est.) |
Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 13.3% (2018 est.) |
Forest | 31.8% (2018 est.) |
Other | 20.2% (2018 est.) |
Urbanization | |
Urban population | 77.8% of total population (2023) |
Rate of urbanization | 0.13% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
Major urban areas (Pop) | 3.574 million BERLIN (capital), 1.788 million Hamburg, 1.576 million Munich, 1.144 million Cologne, 796,000 Frankfurt (2023). |
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