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By: Sarah E. Boslaugh
In: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Pharmacology and Society
Edited by: Sarah E. Boslaugh
Subject:Pharmacology (Clinical)

Germany is a northern European country with a population of 81.0 million (July 2014 estimate), of whom 75.1 percent live in urban areas. Berlin is the capital and largest city, with a population of 3.5 million. Germany is classified as a high-income country by the World Bank, with a per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of U.S. $44,700 in 2014, 27th-highest in the world. The German economy is the largest in Europe, and the German population is the second-largest in Europe, after Russia.

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Life expectancy at birth in Germany is 80.7 years, ranked sixth in the world in 2013. Total fertility is low, at 1.4 children per woman, and the population growth rate is slightly negative, at −0.2 percent annually, with net migration (1.06 migrants per ...

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  Boslaugh, S. (2016). Germany. In S. Boslaugh (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of pharmacology and society (Vol. 1, pp. 655-656). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483349985.n178
  
  Boslaugh, Sarah E. "Germany." In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Pharmacology and Society, edited by Boslaugh, Sarah E., 655-56. Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2016. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483349985.n178.
  
  Boslaugh, S. 2016. Germany. In: Sarah E. Boslaugh Editor, 2016. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Pharmacology and Society, Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 655-656 Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483349985.n178> [Accessed 15 Aug 2022].
  
  Boslaugh, Sarah E. "Germany." The SAGE Encyclopedia of Pharmacology and Society. Edited by Sarah E. Boslaugh. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks,: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2016, pp. 655-56. SAGE Knowledge. 15 Aug 2022, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483349985.n178.
  
  Boslaugh, Sarah E. (2016). Germany In: Boslaugh, Sarah E. (Ed.),Germany The SAGE encyclopedia of pharmacology and society Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.; 2016:655-656. doi:10.4135/9781483349985.n178
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