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Consumer prices in January 2010: +0.8% on January 2009

Press release No. 044 / 2010-02-09 
Larger view of the chart consumer price index
As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the consumer price index for Germany in January 2010 rose 0.8% on January 2009 (December 2009: +0.9% on December 2008). Hence the inflation rate, measured by the change of the consumer price index, remained just under one percent at the beginning of the year. Compared with December 2009, the consumer price index was down by 0.6%. The estimate for January 2010 was confirmed.

Total exports declining 18.4% in 2009on 2008

Press release No. 045 / 2010-02-09 
Larger view of the chart foreign trade (special trade)
According to provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), Germany exported commodities to the value of Euro 803.2. billion and imported commodities to the value of Euro 667.1 billion in 2009. German exports in 2009 thus were 18.4% and imports 17.2% below the respective 2008 levels. This was the highest decline recorded in foreign trade in relation to both imports and exports since 1950.

Every tenth Canadian has German roots

Press release No. 046 / 2010-02-09  About 3.2 million of the total of 32.6 million Canadians indicated in the last Canadian population census in 2006 to be of ethnic German origin. Those data of the Canadian statistical office are published by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the occasion of the Olympic winter games to take place in Vancouver from 12 to 28 February 2010. According to those figures, German was the fifth most frequent foreign ethnic origin, following English (6.6 million), French (4.9 million), Scottish (4.7 million) and Irish (4.4 million).


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Most striking price changes in January 2010

Here you find products with especially remarkable price changes in January 2010 compared to January 2009.


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Winter Olympics: Country Profile Canada 2010

The Federal Statistical Office Germany has compiled a new country profile with statistics on the Canadian economy and society to mark the beginning of the winter games on 12th February in Vancouver. The statistical country profile Canada 2010 is part of a publication series on the G20-states.
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Hands-on basket of goods – the price kaleidoscope

How does the price trend of a single product influence the index?
With the new price kaleidoscope of the Federal Statistical Office, you will get an overview of the price trends and weights of various product groups in the consumer price index. It allows getting a more intuitive impression of the complex connections.

New: Statistical Yearbook 2009

Every sixth recipient of parental allowance in Berlin is a man +++ Internet chats used more frequently by men than by women +++ The type of school attended by children depends, among other things, on their parents’ educational attainment +++ Every eighth household cannot afford a full meal every two days +++
Getting curious?
The new Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany will give you a lot of information on social and economic structures in Germany – also in an international context.
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Economic and Financial Data for Germany

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The actual data  corresponding to the data described on the International Monetary Fund's Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (DSBB) is available here. 
For a fuller explanation of the DSBB and the statistical standards to which Germany has committed, please click on DSBB Home Page.

Interactive Applications

We are offering interaction and communication applications typical of online environments, such as our interactive applications of the Animated population pyramids on the population forecast, the Regional Atlas, the Personal inflation calculator, the Atlas of foreign trade data and the Air transport atlas (some interactive applications only in German). Get an easy overview of complex matters by using the new forms of presentation you can alter as required.





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