Population: 16,586,490 (July 1989), growth rate - 0.1% (1989)

Birth rate: 13 births/1,000 population (1989)

Death rate: 13 deaths/1,000 population (1989)

Net migration rate: - 1.0 migrants/1,000 population (1989)

Infant mortality rate: 10 deaths/1,000 live births (1989)

Life expectancy at birth: 70 years male, 76 years female (1989)

Total fertility rate: 1.8 children born/woman (1989)

Nationality: noun--German(s); adjective--German

Ethnic divisions: 99.7% German, 0.3% Slavic and other

Religion: 47% Protestant, 7% Roman Catholic, 46% unaffiliated or other; less than 5% of Protestants and about 25% of Roman Catholics active participants

Language: German

Literacy: 99%

Labor force: 8,960,000; 37.5% industry, 21.1% services, 10.8% agriculture and forestry, 10.3% commerce, 7.4% transport and communications, 6.6% construction, 3.1% handicrafts, 3.2% other (1987)

Organized labor: 87.7% of labor force

NOTE: The information regarding German Democratic Republic on this page is re-published from the 1989 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of German Democratic Republic People 1989 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about German Democratic Republic People 1989 should be addressed to the CIA.