There is only one thing in common between the Germany of yesterday and today: the federation was and is “the locomotive of Europe”. For the rest, in a little over half a century, everything changed. In the ’50s, marriage was the natural culmination of love. The couples spent 46% of salary to buy food. And in most cases, both he and she were working in industries that contributed to 50% of the GDP. A portrait diametrically opposed to the Teutonic society of the Third Millennium. Where getting married, in fact, has become an exception. Exactly like the choice of having a baby. the number of children, compared to 60 years ago, has almost halved: in 2009, just passed the threshold of 650 thousand. The present and the future of Germany, therefore, is made of a few young and many older people. The over -65 Germans are 17 million (1 of 5) against the 7 million registered in the mid-900. In the end, today, the tertiary sector is the sector that produces more. And now that the narrowness of the war are gone, families spend only 14% of monthly income for food.
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