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Facts about the German Language
Apart from Germany, German is spoken in Switzerland, Austria, and 38 other countries, for a total of 120 million speakers.German is spread mainly in Europe and is the official language of Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and Denmark.
Statistics:
- Germany - 75,300,000
- Austria - 7,500,000
- United States - 6,093,054
- Brazil - 1,500,000
- Poland - 1,400,000
- Kazakhstan - 958,000
- Russia - 896,000
- Romania - 500,000
- Argentina - 400,000
- Luxembourg - 10,900
- Hungary - 250,000
- Czech Republic - 200,000
- Belgium - 150,000
- Australia - 135,000
- Kyrgyzstan - 101,057
- South Africa - 45,000
- Uzbekistán - 40,000
- Chile - 35,000
- Ecuador - 32,000
- Liechtenstein - 30,000
- Uruguay - 28,000
- Namibia - 20,000
- Slovenia - 20,000
- Moldova - 7,000
- Puerto Rico - 1,453
- United Arab Emirates - 1,300
- Finland (?)
- France (?)
- Serbia and Montenegro (?)
- Slovenia (?)
- Switzerland (?)
- Tajikistan (?)
- Total - 95,453,764
Age structure:
0-14 years: 14.7% (male 6,197,490; female 5,879,052)
15-64 years: 67% (male 28,119,536; female 27,132,713)
65 years and over: 18.3% (male 6,096,106; female 8,999,712) (2004 est.)
Ethnic groups: German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish)
Religions: Protestant 34%, Roman Catholic 34%, Muslim 3.7%, unaffiliated or other 28.3%