GERMANY: Building the Future...
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The Federal Republic of Germany is entering the new millennium as one of the world's five most powerful technological economies and trading nations (see below). New environmental technology is just one example of its cutting-edge products. By the turn of the century, Germany had factories capable of delivering one third of the world’s supply of photovoltaic cells for solar energy.

GERMANY: A WORLD-CLASS, HI-TECH ECONOMY

Key Producers	GDP*	Population	Area (sq mi)
USA	$10.08 trillion	280,562,000	3,675,031
Japan	$3.45 trillion	126,975,000	145,882
GERMANY	$2.17 trillion	82,433,000	137,803
France	$1.51 trillion	59,766,000	211,208
UK	$1.47 trillion	59,778,000	94,525

Key Traders	Exports	Imports	Key Trade Partners
USA	$723 billion	$1,148 billion	Canada, Mexico, Japan
GERMANY	$561 billion	$473 billion	France, USA, UK, Italy
Japan	$405 billion	$332 billion	USA, China, South Korea
UK	$287 billion	$337 billion	USA, Germany, France
France	$293 billion	$293 billion	Germany, Bel-Lux, Italy

* Germany's gross domestic product (GDP) is reported in terms of its purchasing-power parity (ppp). That's the dollar value of the universal "basket" of goods and services that Germany's GDP earnings could buy (within Germany, at German prices) in 2001. On the other hand, the official exchange rate between the euro and the U.S. dollar in 2001 would have put Germany's GDP earnings at $1.8 trillion. Other nations' GDP data are in ppp values, too.
Sources: The World Factbook, 2002. German Information Center in New York City.