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The Federation of German Industries (BDI) forecasts the German economy to contract by 0.1% in 2025. That would follow a 0.2% decline in 2024 and a 0.3% contraction in 2023.
The German economic crisis is a significant downturn of Germany's economy that marked a dramatic reversal of its previous "labour market miracle" period of 2005–2019. The country, which had been considered to be Europe's economic powerhouse in prior decades, became the worst-performing major economy globally in 2023 with a 0.3% contraction, followed by minimal growth in 2024 leaning on ...
China is Germany’s fourth-biggest export market but it is facing a cocktail of economic problems — including slowing growth and record youth unemployment — that have crimped demand for ...
In the first half of 2021, coal, natural gas, and nuclear energy comprised 56% of the total electricity fed into Germany's grid in the first half of 2021. Coal was the leader out of the conventional energy sources, comprising over 27% of Germany's electricity. Wind power's contribution to the electric grid was 22%. [149]
Germany’s challenges span the structural and cyclical, domestic and geopolitical, creating a perfect storm for the country’s economy that most economists see little way out of in the short run.
[7] [8] Since China's transition to a socialist market economy through controlled privatisation and deregulation, [9] [10] the country has seen its ranking increase from ninth in 1978, to second in 2010; China's economic growth accelerated during this period and its share of global nominal GDP surged from 2% in 1980 to 18% in 2021.
Map of metropolitan regions in the European Union in 2018. A metropolitan region 's gross domestic product , or GDP , is one of several measures of the size of its economy. Similar to GDP , GMP is defined as the market value of all final goods and services produced within a metropolitan region in a given period of time.
Now, Germany is the world’s worst-performing major developed economy, with both the International Monetary Fund and European Union expecting it to shrink this year.