Brandenburg–Statistik 2012

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Die kleine Brandenburg–Statistik 2012

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Contents

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Brandenburg-Statistik

1 12 22 General Information Environment Construction Prices

2 13 23 Population Transport Earnings 3 14 24 Livelihood National Accounts Public Finances 4 15 25 Households and Business Notifications, Judicature Families Insolvencies 26 5 16 Political Parties Culture and Sports Employment and 27 Compensation of 6 Elections Employees, Education Labour Market 28 7 The administrative 17 Agriculture districts of Construction, Housing Brandenburg 2011 8 18 Public Health System 29 Industry Brandenburg 9 19 1990 to 2011 Public Social Benefits Retail Trade, 30 10 Hotels and Restaurant The Region Facilities for Child Care, Industry, Tourism Berlin / Brandenburg Youth Welfare 20 2011 11 Foreign Trade Care 21 Consumer Prices Introduction

»DIE kleine BRANDENBURG- With 18,279 live births 675 children STATISTIK 2012« (statistics for the were born less than in 2010. In 2011 federal state of Brandenburg 2012, 27,851 Brandenburg inhabitants key facts and figures) offers infor- died, 43 less than in 2010. Thus, mation on the development in the there was a deficit of births by 9,572 federal state Brandenburg based on people. Due to the surplus dying the most important statistical and a migration surplus of 1,847 results. people, the federal state of Brandenburg has lost 7,638 inhabi- This brochure is divided into chap- tants, or nearly 0.3 percent of its ters on different topics. Chapters population in the course of 2011. 1 – 27 present figures on Branden- At the end of 2011 the population burg’s demographic, economical, was 2,495,635 people, and had the social, agricultural and political lowest level, that has determined structures. As far as possible, devel- the official population statistics for opments have been highlighted by the federal state of Brandenburg comparing with the figures for the since the reunification of Germany. years 2003, 2007 and 2011. The observed decrease in popula- The brochure also contains in tion since 2001 continued. formation on the administrative districts (Chapter 28), data on On 31 December 2011 in Branden- Brandenburg‘s development since burg lived 69,346 foreigners. This 1990 (Chapter 29) and accumulated represents a population share of figures for the region of Berlin/ 2.8 percent. Brandenburg (Chapter 30). 2011 there were in Brandenburg On 31 December 2011 the area of 1.26 million households. Nearly the federal state Brandenburg cov- 38 percent of them were Single- ered 29,484 km². The proportion of person households. the agricultural area was 49 percent. The forest area comprised At the end of 2011, there were 35 percent. 1.29 million dwellings in Branden- burg, 3,725 more than in 2010. Most of them were added in the district of Potsdam-Mittelmark (725) and in the state capital Potsdam (618). 50.9 percent of dwellings in Brandenburg are located in buildings with three or more dwellings.

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With 11.1 million overnight stays »DIE kleine BRANDEN- Brandenburg-Statistik in accommodation establishments BURG-STATISTIK 2012« in the federal state of Brandenburg gives an initial overview of in 2011, the previous year was ex- the data provided by official ceeded again. With 4.05 million statistics. A similar brochure arrivals, the guest numbers also has been published for the slightly increased. The average state of Berlin (»DIE kleine length of stay was 2.7 days. BERLIN-STATISTIK 2012«). Those interested can also Adjusted for price changes, the find a similarly structured gross domestic product for Bran selection of figures and data denburg increased in 2011 by for the Federal Republic of 2.4 percent. The medium-term Germany as well as bench- analysis of price-adjusted economic mark figures for all German development shows that the fed- federal states in »Pocket- eral state of Brandenburg steadily book: Germany«, published upward since 1991 developed, by the Federal Statistical though sometimes only slightly. Office and under www. statistikportal.de. In 2009 there were three large elections in the federal state of Brandenburg. Beside the members to the European parliament and the German Parliament (Deutscher Bun- destag) also were elected the members to the Parliament of Branden- burg. The SPD with 33.0 percent of the secondary votes is again the strongest party, followed by the party DIE LINKE with 27.2 percent and the CDU with 19.8 percent. FDP and GRÜNE/B90 just moved into the parliament of Brandenburg.

01.1 General Information

Length of border Adjoining Lands of the Federal Republic of Germany and States: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 448 km Berlin 234 km Sachsen-Anhalt 379 km Sachsen 242 km Niedersachsen 30 km Poland 267 km Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Uckermark Prignitz

Niedersachsen

Ostprignitz-Ruppin PolandPolen Oberhavel Barnim

Havelland Märkisch-Oderland

Brandenburg Potsdam an der Havel Sachsen-Anhalt Frankfurt Potsdam- (Oder) Mittelmark Oder-Spree

Teltow-Fläming Dahme-Spreewald Largest expansion 244 km, north – south Cottbus 291 km, east – wes Spree-Neiße Elbe-Elster Oberspreewald- 0 10 20 30 40 km Lausitz Sachsen

Local time Landkreis (Rural district) 12 o’clock CET = 11:58 :13 Kreisfreie Stadt (Urban district) Frankfurt (Oder) 12 o’clock CET = 11:52:16 Potsdam (Observatory) 01.2 General Information ha metre above sea level Total area ...... 2,948,398 Börnickenberg ...... 129 Krugberg ...... 129 Land use % Kronsberge ...... 125 Buildings and Wietkikenberg ...... 124 associated open spaces ...... 4.6 Freiberge ...... 121 Industrial ...... 1.3 Sassenberge ...... 120 Recreational ...... 0.7 Eichberge ...... 117 Traffic area ...... 3.6 Krähenberge...... 116 Agricultural ...... 49.3 Kleiner Ravensberg ...... 114 Forest land...... 35.5 Rießener Berge ...... 112 Lakes and waterways ...... 3.4 Marienberg ...... 110 Other uses ...... 1.5 Blocksberge ...... 110 Gollenberg ...... 110 Herrnberge ...... 108 Elevations metre above sea level Kutschenberg...... 201 Hagelberg ...... 200 Bigger lakes ha Hoher Berg ...... 186 Schwielochsee ...... 1,327 Golmberg ...... 178 Scharmützelsee ...... 1,210 Brandberg ...... 175 Unteruckersee ...... 1,031 Wache Berge...... 172 Speicher Niemtsch / Hutberg ...... 162 (Senftenberger See) ...... 1,082 Kesselberg ...... 161 Parsteiner See ...... 1,009 Wachtelberge ...... 159 Ruppiner See...... 807 Semmelberg ...... 158 Beetzsee ...... 801 Rauensche Berge ...... 153 Werbellinsee ...... 795 Babbener Berge...... 152 Grimnitzsee ...... 783 Hutberg ...... 145 Schwielowsee ...... 783 Krausnicker Berge...... 144 Talsprerre Spremberg ...... 683 Schwarzer Berg ...... 144 Oberuckersee...... 618 Blocksberg ...... 139 Großer Stechlinsee ...... 412 Hirschberge...... 135 Rauhberge ...... 130 02.1 Population

The censuses taking place in Unit 2003 2007 2011 several years’ distance, provide the basis of data on the popula- Inhabitants 1000 2,575 2,536 2,496 tion as well as for regional and of which female % 50.6 50.5 50.4 demographic structure of the Foreigners 1000 68 66 69 population. Their results serve of which female % 39.2 41.9 43.1 as basis for the updating the official total population, which is Age in years shown here (as of 31 Decem- 0 to 5 % 4.3 4.5 4.7 ber). 6 to 17 % 11.6 9.1 9.1 18 to 24 % 9.3 9.0 6.6 25 to 34 % 10.9 10.5 11.3 35 to 44 % 17.9 15.9 12.6 45 to 54 % 15.7 17.7 18.8 55 to 64 % 12.4 12.0 14.5 65 and over % 17.9 21.3 22.4 Foreigners as of 31 December 2011 by age groups Age in years 0 to 19 20 to 39 40 to 59 60 and over

Marital status Men 1000 1,273 1,256 1,237 single % 43.3 43.1 43.2 married % 46.9 46.1 45.1 widowed % 2.8 3.1 3.3 divorced % 6.9 7.7 8.4 Women 1000 1,302 1,280 1,259 single % 34.2 33.8 33.9 married % 45.3 44.8 44.1 widowed % 12.3 12.3 12.3 divorced % 8.3 9.1 9.7 02.2 Population

Updated age Pyramid on 31 December 2011 by age and marital status

single married widowed Age in yearsiiiiiii divorced 100 100 surplus of women surplus of men 95 95 90 90 85 85 80 80 75 75 70 70 65 65 60 60 55 55 50 50 45 45 40 40 35 35 30 30 25 25 20 20 15 15 10 10 5male 5 female 0 0 40 30 20 10 0 0 10 20 30 40 thousand thousand 02.3 Population

Marriage Unit 2003 2007 2011 Marriages number 9,974 11,430 12,115 Divorces number 6,107 5,127 5,344

Birth Live births number 18,148 18,589 18,279 rate ¹ 35.1 39.5 46.3 viz. outside marriage number 10,398 11,046 11,513 % 57.3 59.4 63.0 foreigners ² number 577 385 405 % 3.2 2.1 2.2

Death Deaths number 25,859 26,666 27,851 rate ³ 10.0 10.5 11.1 of which deaths under 1 year number 76 58 67 rate 4 4.2 3.1 3.6 Excess of deaths number 7,711 8,077 9,572 rate ³ 3.0 3.2 3.8

30 thousand 20 10 0 Lebendgeborene 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Gestorbene Marriages Live births Divorces Deaths

1 Per 1000 women 2 Both parents foreigners 3 Per 1000 inhabitants 4 Per 1000 live births at the age from 15 to or the mother only when under 45 years unmarried 02.4 Population

Unit 2003 2007 2011 Migration across the border of Brandenburg Arrival number 68,098 60,903 63,387 of which foreigners ¹ number 11,721 9,299 13,108 Departure number 67,064 64,871 61,540 of which foreigners ¹ number 10,907 9,561 10,250 Balance of migration number 1,034 – 3,968 1,847

Internal migration ² number 72,992 60,652 62,099

Unit 2001 2005 2008 Members of religious denominations Protestant ³ 1000 461.6 450.5 427.6⁴ Catholic 1000 79.6 79.8 77.2⁴

60 thousand 50 40 Migration 30 across the border 20 of Brandenburg 10 In-migrants 0 Germans Out-migrants -10 Foreigners -20 Balance -30 -40 -50 -60 -70 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

1 Incl. statelessness and 3 Incl. inhabitants, who Sources: Consistory of the Prot- burg-schlesische Oberlausitz) citizenship inexplicably belong to other protestant estant Church Berlin-Branden- and Office of the German 2 Across the municipality regional churches burg-schlesische Oberlausitz Conference of Catholic Bish- border 4 Data of 2010 (Konsistorium der Evange- ops (Sekretariat der deut- lischen Kirche Berlin-Branden- schen Bischofskonferenz) 02.5 Population

Data on the nationality Foreigners, Unit 2003 2007 2011 of foreigners are avail- as of 31 December able from the Foreigner Europe 1000 33.2 30.0 33.0 Central Register. The of which Poland 1000 8.2 6.4 8.2 number of the foreign- Russian Federation 1000 4.2 4.1 4.1 ers may deviate from Ukraine 1000 3.9 4.1 3.7 current population up- Turkey 1000 2.5 2.3 2.2 dating (chapter 02.1) Africa 1000 3.4 2.6 2.5 because of the differ- America 1000 1.9 1.9 2.1 ent sources of data. Asia 1000 12.6 10.8 10.5 of which Vietnam 1000 5.4 4.4 3.5 Australia and Oceania 1000 0.1 0.1 0.1

Uckermark

Prignitz Ostprignitz- ... staateless, Ruppin Ober- Barnim uncleared havel 1,7 % ...European ...Australia a nd Union Märkisch- Oceania excluding Poland Havelland Oderland 0,2 % 21,8 % Berlin ...Afric a BrandenburgPotsdam Frankfurt (Oder) 5,2 % an der Havel Potsdam- Oder-Spree Mittelmark Teltow- Fläming Dahme- Spreewald

Cottbus Ober- spree- Spree-Neiße Elbe-Elster Foreigners wald- 0 to 2 % Lausitz 2 to 2,5 % ...Asia 2,5 to 3 % 21,4 % ...Poland 3 % and over 16,6 % ... America ... other Europe 4,3 % 28,9 % 03 Livelihood

Unit 2003 2007 2011 The microcensus is a household survey Population 1000 2,576.8 2,541.1 2 ,498.8 conducted annually, … by labour force participation comprising 1 percent Labour Force 1000 1,371.3 1,395.0 1,359.7 of households. It pro- employed 1000 1,116.9 1,203.0 1,239.9 vides information on unemployed 1000 254.4 192.0 119.8 the economic and so- Non-Labour Force 1000 1,205.5 1,146.1 1,139.1 cial situation of the … by main source of livelihood population. Employment 1000 1,047.0 1,137.6 1,150.5 Unemployment benefit/assistance – ALG I/II ¹ 1000 258.2 46.9 34.4 Benefits according Hartz IV (ALG II, social benefit) 1000 – 178.1 148.1 Pension 1000 689.9 672.9 685.2 Livelihood by family members ² 1000 505.3 455.4 419.4 Own fortune, letting etc. 1000 / / 6.4 Social welfare assistance/ current assistance to living costs 1000 32.5 11.0 15.4 Parental benefit, child-raising benefit ³ 1000 – 11.0 12.4 Other support 1000 39.7 23.9 27.0

EUR Private households 0 to 500 by monthly net income, 500 to 900 2011 900 to 1,300 1,300 to 1,500 1,500 to 2,000 Single-person households 2,000 to 2,600 2,600 to 3,200 Multi-person households 3,200 and over 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 thousand

1 With implementation of introduction of new 2 Since 2008 income by 3 Since 2009 only parental SGB II omission of the achievement forms family members benefit unemployment relief and 04 Households and Families

Every community of per- Privat households Unit 2003 2007 2011 sons living together and by size of household forming an economical unit Private households 1000 1,202.3 1,242.9 1,264.6 as well as persons who live Single-person households 1000 389.4 445.1 477.1 alone and, nevertheless, Multi-person households 1000 812.9 797.8 787.5 manage for themselves are with 2 persons 1000 442.5 463.0 486.9 counted as a household with 3 persons 1000 215.1 203.6 184.4 (private household). A with 4 persons 1000 126.3 107.2 94.4 household may include rel- with 5 or more persons 1000 29.1 24.1 21.8 atives and persons who do not belong to the family as Married couples such (e.g. partners in life). without children 1000 320.6 338.5 352.9 Married couples with children as well as single par- Families 1000 430.6 394.6 355.5 ents and unmarried couples Married couples 1000 273.0 242.2 205.2 with their unmarried chil- Single parents dren living in the same and consensual unions 1000 157.5 152.4 150.3 household are counted as of which families with children families. less than 18 years of age 1000 289.4 240.7 226.7 Married couples 1000 174.9 140.3 124.2 Single parents and consensual unions 1000 114.5 100.4 102.5

Average monthly 3,000 EUR net income of families 2,500 with children under 2,000 18 years 1,5003,000 EUR 1,0002,500 Married couples 2,000500 Single parents 1,5000 1,000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Married couples 500 Single parents 0 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 05 Culture and Sports

Unit 2003 2007 2011 In the fields of culture and Public theatres ¹ sports in the official statis- Locations number 26 32 28 tics do not own surveys are Events ² number 1,593 1,683 1,631 conducted. The following of which stage plays number 535 645 594 information has been pro- operas number 63 53 42 vided by other facilities musicals number 86 53 55 available, are to provide a Visitors at the location ³ 1000 400 396 427 brief overview. Public libraries number 241 223 212 Stock of media 1000 4,381 4,692 4,408 Sources: Deutscher Users 1000 234 202 187 Bühnenverein, Bundesverband Visitors 1000 3,004 2,794 2,750 der Theater und Orchester, Borrowings 1000 9,862 9,308 9,312 Landesfachstelle für Archive und öffentliche Bibliotheken Screens ⁴ number 147 152 138 im Brandenburgischen Visitors 1000 3,728 2,612 2,695 Landeshauptarchiv, Museums ⁵ number 347 343 336 ⁶ Filmförderungsanstalt, of which with data Institut für Museumskunde, Landessportbund for the visitors number 265 239 234 ⁶ Brandenburg e.V. Visitors 3,592 3,368 3,287 ⁶ Sports clubs number 2,767 2,877 2,983 Members 1000 279 293 316 of which female 1000 95 105 117 Children and youth until 21 years 1000 111 109 111 Adult, starting from 22 years 1000 168 184 205 Popular sports by Football /Soccer number of club members Gymnastics in 2011 Volleyball Handball Shooting competitors Horse riding Bowl Disability Sport Table tennis Athletics 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 thousand

1 Season, e.g 2 Own events at the 3 Incl. appearances of 4 Incl. mobil cinemas 2002/2003 ≙ 2003 location outside ensembles 5 Museums asked for data 6 Data from 2010 06.1 Education

Pupils at / in Unit 2003 2007 2011

an / in Primary schools number 84,397 103,667 105,745 Comprehensive schools number 79,422 18,825 14,631 Secondary school number – 32,303 36,486 Intermediate school number 23,249 – – Grammar school number 70,793 56,006 51,482 Vocational grammar school (Berufliches Gymnasium ) ¹ number 4,303 4,070 2,454 Special schools number 13,834 10,538 9,633 Establishment of the second education number 1,528 2,436 2,283 Vocational schools (dual system) number 56,642 53,217 35,046 Full-time vocational schools number 12,095 12,123 3,697 Advanced vocational schools number 3,783 4,016 2,378 Technical colleges number 3,634 4,453 6,271 Health care training institutes ² number 3,588 4,236 4,629 Schoolleavers ³ Without final certificate number 3,024 3,024 1,411 of which female % 32.5 33.2 38.9 With general secondary school certificate / Occupation-educational-maturities number 1,383 1,168 776 of which female % 36.7 38.2 37.9 With extended general secondary school certificate / extended Occupation-educational-maturities number 5,689 3,540 1,988 of which female % 39.9 38.3 37.7 With intermediate school-leaving certificate / Compartment-secondary school-maturities number 16,228 12,148 5,757 of which female % 52.9 50.0 50.8 With general university-level graduation number 11,037 12,299 7,306 of which female % 58.7 58.6 55.1 Teaching staff ⁴ … General education schools number 22,192 18,827 17,664 Vocational schools number 3,004 3,024 2,372 Health care training institutes number 236 309 316

1 To 2006 Grammar school 2 Since 2006 incl. Elder 3 Of schools of 4 Full- and part-time sixth form of the College care education general education teaching staff of Further Education (Gymnasiale Oberstufe des Oberstufenzentrums) 06.2 Education

Schools ¹ Unit 2003 2007 2011 Primary schools number 464 475 475 Comprehensive schools number 222 42 31 Secondary school number – 140 151 Intermediate school number 79 – – Grammar school number 111 101 99 Vocational grammar school (Berufliches Gymnasium ) ² number x x 17 Special schools number 132 123 116 Establishment of the second education number 15 17 17 Vocational schools (dual system) number 37 41 38 Full-time vocational schools number 53 59 47 Advanced vocational schools number 29 33 29 Technical colleges number 25 31 35 Health care training institutes ³ number 28 36 32

Automotive mechanic Trainees Trained retail salewoman in the ten most Industrial Mechanic - mechanical and system engineering Office administrator frequent training Cook occupations, Shop assistant 31 December 2011, Mechatronics specialist total: Office communications administrator 38,358 trainees Trained retail saleman Hairdresser Warehouse logistics specialist Male Administration assistent Female Electronic technican Medical assistant Metal fitter Qualified hotel assistant Paint fitter (sanitary heating and air-conditioning engineering) Cook Electronics - Industrial Engineering Dental Assistant 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000

1 Educational institutions 2 To 2006 Grammar school from 2010 as educational sixth form of the College of establishment Further Education (Gymna- 3 Since 2006 incl. specialized siale Oberstufe des Ober- seminar for Elder care stufenzentrums); counted 06.3 Education

All recognized by Unit 2003 2007 2011 national law universi- Students ¹ number 39,614 44,032 51,676 ties, art schools and of which female % 49.7 50.2 50.7 colleges to submit At universities number 26,302 29,093 34,077 their data on the ba- of which female % 53.8 55.1 54.9 sis of the Higher Edu- At art colleges number 704 524 551 cation Statistics Act. of which female % 43.2 45.8 47.9 At specialised colleges of higher education (Fachhochschulen) number 11,942 13,866 16,282 of which female % 41.1 40.0 42.1 At administrative professional colleges number 666 549 766 of which female % 48.2 51.2 44.9 First-year student ² viz. in the first university term number 7,933 8,571 9,530 in the first specialized term number 10,923 12,386 15,394 Academic and arts staff ³ (without student auxiliary workers) number 3,841 4,494 6,237 as primary occupation number 2,557 2,886 3,786 as secondary occupation number 1,284 1,608 2,451 Passed examinations ⁴ number 3,896 5,622 8,656 University degree number 1,405 2,462 3,942 of which Bachelor number 168 499 1,740 Master number 59 382 792 Doctor degree number 194 323 386 State second teaching profession examination ⁵ number 501 370 927 Artistic final examination number 98 127 98 Specialised university conclusions number 1,683 2,334 3,262 Other number 15 6 41

1 Winter semester 2 Academic year (summer 3 At 1 December 4 Examination year 5 Incl. Bachelor, Mas- semester and the follow- (winter semester ter and additional ing winter semester) and the following examinations summer semester) 07 Agriculture

Unit 2003 2007 2011 The agricultural Agriculturally used area of the statistics include agricultural enterprises, total 1000 ha 1,328.5 1,328.1 1,319.4 the structure of which arable land 1000 ha 1,030.4 1,034.9 1,029.3 surveys of agricul- permanent grassland 1000 ha 293.1 288.1 285.2 tural and forestry Orchard, fuit and berry enterprises and plantations producer statistics. (without strawberries) 1000 ha 3.5 3.3 3.0 Yields Cereals (without grain maize and CCM ¹) 1000 t 1,616.4 2,097.0 1,922.7 Vegetable (open-grown and under glass) 1000 t 125.4 128.4 122.1 Fruit (Tree fruit in the cultivation of market) 1000 t 49.0 18.8 8.0 Livestock population on 3 May Cattle, total 1000 614.3 566.4 564.7 of which dairy cows 1000 181.5 163.7 159.3 nurse and mother cows ² 1000 90.5 92.0 96.7 Pigs, total 1000 769.1 808.2 813.8 of which fattening pigs 1000 235.6 254.0 244.2 breeding pigs 1000 102.3 102.9 98.0 Sheep, total 1000 140.3 129.1 78.0 ³ Poultry, total 1000 8,273.5 8,480.5 9,517.7 ⁴ of which hens, total 1000 6,513.9 6,639.3 7,007.5 ⁴ Agricultural holdings, total 1000 6.7 6.7 5.5 therefrom legal status: Holdings with the legal form of sole proprietorship 1000 5.1 5.1 • Holdings with the legal form of partnership ⁵ 1000 0.6 0.7 • Holdings with the legal form of legal person 0.9 1.0 • Agricultural workers, total 1000 39.4 38.6 • of which permanently employed workers 1000 18.6 17.4 •

1 Corn-Cob-Mix 2 Starting from 2008 3 3 November 4 1 March 2010 5 Incl. community incl. battle cows and personss mast cows

08.1 Public Health System

The statistics of the public health system are based on reports by the public health authorities and the hospitals. Unit 2003 2007 2011 Selected causes of death Diseases of the circulatory system number 12,769 12,046 11,663 Neoplasms number 7,486 7,027 7,591 Injury and poisoning number 1,239 947 971 AIDS/HIV diseases number 3 5 6 Diseases of the respiratory system number 1,767 1,912 2,003

Died infants number 61 58 67 rate ¹ 3.4 3.1 3.6

Diseases of the respiratory system 2,000 1,500 1,000 500 0 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

1 Per 1000 live births 08.2 Public Health System

Unit 2003 2007 2011 Hospitals number 49 47 53 Beds provided number 15,664 15,342 15,242 Admissions number 519,166 522,679 543,445 Dismissals number 506,808 510,176 532,867 Inpatient treatments ² number 519,341 522,746 544,582 Deaths number 12,707 12,637 12,852 Average length of stay days 9.0 8.5 8.1 Full-time hospital doctors ³ number 3,236 3,516 4,026 Nursing staff number 9,839 9,553 10,261 Medical laboratory staff number 3,376 3,150 3,324 Functional staff number 2,695 2,750 3,026 Other non-medical staff number 4,656 3,718 3,289

Selected causes for treatment 2003 2007 2010 (main diagnoses) ⁴ Diseases of the circulatory system number 90,018 88,295 92,863 Neoplasms number 59,818 58,264 56,532 Injury and poisoning number 54,018 51,565 54,567 Diseases of the digestive system number 52,398 51,237 51,579

12 days Average length of stay 9 6 3 0 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

2 Incl. same-day cases 3 Incl. junior doctors 4 Incl. deaths and hourly cases

09 Public Social Benefits

Information about social ben- assistance, housing allowance efits is taken from different and severely disabled person official statistics (e.g. social statistics).

Unit 2003 2007 2011 Public assistance ¹ Recipients of continual subsistence payment number 76,389 9,626 9,168 Recipients of basic security in old age and disability number 11,872 18,805 20,730 Recipients of benefits under the 5th to 9th Chapter of SGB XII number 30,950 28,486 32,353 Gross expenditures EUR mn 616.7 474.5 552.4 Asylum seekers Recipients, end of year number 7,673 3,551 3,655 Gross expenditures EUR mn 34.6 20.0 18.1 Housing allowance 1 Recipients (households) number 140,376 24,959 32,730 Severely handicapped persons number 190,681 219,434 237,747 rate ³ 74 86 95

2002 2006 2010 Assistance for war victims Recipients of current benefits 2 number 1,423 989 780 Recipients of unique benefits number 1,839 879 334 Gross expenditures EUR mn 4.4 3.2 4.3

1 Since 2005 methodical changes 2 Multiple counting possible 3 Per 1000 inhabitants

10.1 Facilities for Child Care

Unit 2002 2007 2011 Day care centres number 1,972 1,700 1,768 Places number 163,387 152,303 169,683 Cared children number • 135,495 151,502 Staff number 16,675 15,418 18,626 Public institutions number 1,602 1,047 965 Places number 132,750 96,429 97,929 Cared children number • 84,425 85,524 Staff number 12,834 8,945 9,627 Independent institutions number 370 653 803 Places number 30,637 55,874 71,754 Cared children number • 51,070 65,978 Staff number 3,841 6,473 8,999 Percentage attending of children under 3 years number ¹ • 38.1 44.3 of children 3 until under 6 years number ¹ • 93.6 95.2

Children in daily care number • 3,554 4,863 of which under 3 years number • 2,980 4,232 Daily care staff number • 1,042 1,283 Percentage attending of children under 3 years number ¹ • 5.4 7.3 of children 3 until under 6 years number ¹ • 0.9 0.9

1 Number of children in child day care ever 100 of children in the same age group

10.2 Youth Welfare

Unit 2003 2007 2011 ¹ Closed cases, in the course of the year Adoptions number 171 119 101 Complaint the complete or partial removal of parental custody number 304 565 580 Court actions complete or partial removal of parental custody number 257 306 411 Descent of custody of persons in whole or in part, to the Youth Welfare Office number 207 239 330 Take of children in care number 1,614 1,225 1,509

Cases, as of end of year Assistance / counselling for young people Help for education number • 127 432 Family counselling number • 2,497 3,383 Social group work number 88 69 130 One-to-one care number • 703 767 Day group education number 495 422 510 full time care number 1,738 1,643 1,875 Care in residential homes; other forms of supported housing number 3,746 2,365 2,788 Individual intensive socio-educational assistance number 119 84 78 Adaption support for mentally disordered young people number • 1,033 1,586 Family-oriented assistance/counselling Help for education number • 199 333 Social educational family assistance number 1,207 1,663 2,570

1 Methodical changes since 2007

11 Care

Unit 2003 2007 2011 This data is provided Benefits from by the institutions of nursing care insurances ¹ outpatient and inpa- Recipients of care number 69,266 85,129 98,902 tient care facilities in nursing homes number 18,519 21,378 25,156 and the care funds. with ambulatory care number 18,689 22,662 27,892 cared for exclusively by family members at home number 32,058 41,089 45,854

with nursing care stage I ² number 18,819 25,080 30,790 with nursing care stage II number 10,244 12,592 12,373 with nursing care stage III number 2,995 3,417 2,691

Nursing homes number 282 339 400 private number 77 93 122 non-profit number 190 234 267 public number 15 12 11

Nursing home places number 20,109 22,909 26,147

Ambulatory care services number 502 548 598 private number 303 350 378 non-profit number 195 194 216 public number 4 4 4

Staff number 17,703 22,651 28,885 Nursing homes number 10,838 13,578 16,429 Ambulatory care services number 6,865 9,073 12,456

1 As of 15 December 2 Incl. those for whom the extent of needed care has not yet been determined

12.1 Environment

The environmental data The weather information is are collected in annual or provided by the German Weather multi-year cycle. Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst).

Meteorological data for Potsdam Unit 2003 2007 2011 Temperature (annual average) ° C 9.7 10.5 10.2 Duration of sunshine (annual total) hrs 2,081 1,784 2,009 Precipitation (annual total) mm 428 798 607 Summer days (at least 25 ° C) number 68 48 47 Frosty days (minimum below 0 ° C) number 107 50 71 Waste disposal 2004 2007 2010 Collection of wastes within public waste disposal ¹ 1000 t 991.2 1 001.1 981.8 of which domestic and bulky waste 1000 t 558.1 557.9 533.3 In waste disposal facilities processed waste quantities 1000 t 8,955.0 9,530.7 7,881.4 viz. delivered from Brandenburg 1000 t 5,769.8 5,986.5 4,835.9 stored in landfills 1000 t 3,474.1 2,004.8 823.8

Height of precipitation 210 mm 180 150 120 90 60 30 0 JF MA MJ JA SO ND JJ FM AM JJ AS ON DF MA MJ JA SO ND 2009 2010 2011

1 Reporting of the waste balance (Abfallbilanz) Brandenburg 12.2 Environment

Public water supply Unit 2004 2007 2010 Withdrawal of water m³ mn 126.0 125.4 126.3 Provison of water to final consumers in Berlin m³ mn 108.6 108.7 111.9 of which households and small businesses m³ mn 92.3 90.1 94.6 Connection rate to public water supply % 98.4 98.6 98.7 Water consumption per inhabitant and day litre 100.0 98.4 104.7 Public sewage disposal In facilities in Berlin treated sewage, total m³ mn 235.5 241.4 245.4 viz. waste water m³ mn 214.6 214.9 214.7 treated in biological facilities m³ mn 235.3 241.3 245.3 Connection rate to public sewage treatment facilities % 82.5 83.4 86.7

Investment in environmental protection Enterprises ² with investments number 845 841 881 of which enterprises with investments in environmental protection number 62 61 127 Investments, total EUR mn 1,171.8 1,046.3 804.2 of which investment in environmental protection, total EUR mn 30.6 38.5 46.0 Share of the investments, total % 2.6 3.7 5.7

Umsatz Land- und Forstwirtschaft Beschäftigte Bodensanierung Handel,Gastgewerbe und Verkehr Klimaschutz Investments for Produzierendes Gewerbe environmental protection of the enterprises of the mining industry and 2004 manufacturing

2007 Refuse disposal Prevention of 2010 water pollution 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100% Noise control Air pollution control Nature protection and landscape conservation Ground redevelopment Climate protection 2 Companies of the Mining and Quarrying and the manufacturing 13.1 Transport

The information on the Unit 2003 2007 2011 traffic that come from Public roads km 12,550 12,477 12,364 official statistics. of which federal motorways km 792 790 795 Additional information provided by other bodies. Tram line length km 220 ¹ 208 ² • Bus route length km 46,730 ¹ 46,305 ² • Passengers Railroad mn 2.7 ¹ 5.2 ² 2.9 Bus mn 102.2 ¹ 91.0 ² 92.3 Tram mn 41.2 ¹ 43.1 ² 42.6 Air traffic ³ Aircraft flights ⁴ 1000 24.9 57.8 65.9 Passengers mn 1.6 6.3 7.1 Motor vehicles 5 Total, as of 1 January 1000 1,653.6 1,737.6 1,585.5 of which passenger/estate cars 1000 1,394.9 1,465.4 1,321.1 goods vehicles 1000 118.9 120.1 109.9 motorcycles 1000 82.1 97.9 100.5 buses 1000 2.8 2.7 2.4

Existence of passenger car

not reduced pollutant 2003 pollutant-reduced with petrol engine 6 2007 pollutant-reduced with diesel engine 2011 0 200 400 600 800 1,000 1,200 1,400 thousand

1 Data from 2004 4 Passenger, freight 5 Since 2008 according 6 Including vehicles that 2 Data from 2009 and training flights to the new regulaion can not be assigned to 3 At Schönefeld airport for vehicle registration any group of pollutants without temporary de-registered vehicles 13.2 Transport

Unit 2003 2007 2011 Road traffic accidents number 85,663 84,105 80,574 of which involving personal injury number 11,179 9,581 8,395 serious accidents involving material demage ¹ number 3,766 3,187 3,370

Involved in accidents with personal injury number 20,628 17,875 15,657 Passenger cars number 13,033 10,976 9,334 Goods road motor vehicles ² number 1,573 1,411 1,268 Motorcycles, scooters number 1,123 918 853 Mopeds, motor-assisted bicycles number 331 396 246 Other vehicles ³ number 215 171 204 Bicycles number 3,329 3,088 2,775 Pedestrians number 932 771 773 Other vehicles and road users number 92 144 204 Killed in road accidents number 330 264 187 of which children number 5 5 5 Injured in road accidents number 14,018 11,927 10,325 of which children number 1,262 912 896

Road casualities 1,500

1,000

500

0 Jan. Febr.März April Mai Juni Juli Aug.Sept. Okt. Nov. Dez. 2003 2011

1 Incl. Serious accidents involving volving material demage 2 Incl. articulated lorries 3 Incl. buses material demage and other and other intoxicated- and tractors drunk-driving accidents; since driving accidents 2008 incl. Serious accidents in- 14 National Accounts

National accounts (VGR) Unit 2009 2010 2011 ¹ are a statistical system for Gross domestic product presenting a comprehen- in current prices EUR bn 51.7 53.1 55.1 sive, overall view of the economic activities of all Gross value added business entities in all sectors EUR bn 46.1 47.5 49.2 Brandenburg. They are Agriculture, forestry and based on the European fishing EUR bn 0.8 0.9 1.0 System of national ac- Industry, including energy EUR bn 9.3 9.8 10.8 counts (ESA 1995) and the Construction EUR bn 3.0 3.0 3.2 Classification of Industries Trade, transport, (WZ 2008). At the centre accommodation and food of national accounts is services, Information and the origin of the gross do- communication EUR bn 7.9 8.1 8.5 mestic product (GDP) as a Financial, insurance measure of performance and Business services, in Brandenburg. Real estate activities EUR bn 11.3 11.5 11.6 Public and other services, education, health EUR bn 13.9 14.1 14.1

1 Provisional result 15 Business notifications, Insolvencies

Unit 2003 2007 2011 The reports of traders are Business registrations delivered monthly from the Registrations number 24,012 23,555 20,521 trading supervision depart- of which ments. Information about new establishments ¹ number 20,790 19,356 16,606 payment problems and Business deregistrations number 17,058 22,040 19,371 insolvency of companies, of which consumers and other closing downs ² number 13,659 17,958 15,863 groups of borrowers provide the district courts.

Financial difficulties Insolvencies number 3,378 6,776 5,759 Enterprises number 1,195 801 629 Other debtors number 2,183 5,975 5,130 of which consumer insolvencies ³ number 923 4,563 4,102

Insolvency proceedings by type of debtor Enterprises Consumer Former self-employed person Other debtors 2003 2011 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 4,000 4,500

1 Establishment of businesses, 2 Without relocations; incl. (ie including »partial 3 Excl. small industries without moving closure of a branch office task of continuing opera- or dependent branch tions«)

16.1 Employment and Compensation of Employees

The number of em- Unit 2009 2010 2011 ¹ ployed persons along Persons engaged in with their wages and economic activity 1000 1,061.0 1,067.8 1,072.2 salaries are determined Self-employed and within the scope of na- family workers 1000 136.7 137.7 139.5 tional account based on Employees 1000 924.4 930.1 932.7 the Klassifikation der Wirtschaftszweige Employees WZ2003 (Classification by economic sectors of Industries). The fig- Agriculture, forestry and fishing 1000 31.1 30.0 30.3 ures on the number of Industry, including energy 1000 140.3 140.0 144.5 employed persons cor- Construction 1000 97.2 95.9 98.3 respond to the work- Trade, transport, accommodation place concept; that is, and food services, Information all employed persons and communication 1000 267.5 268.0 272.1 who have their job in Financial, insurance and Business Brandenburg are taken services, Real estate activities 1000 159.2 167.2 169.3 into consideration. In Public and other services, the result for income education, health 1000 365.7 366.8 357.7 creation the figure for employee earnings re- 2001 2005 2009 Compensation of employees flects all of the cash and per employee EUR 28,394 28,878 29,741 non-cash benefits ac- Agriculture, forestry and crued to employees fishing EUR 21,436 22,358 22,308 working in Brandenburg Industry, including energy EUR 35,471 36,735 37,567 from work or other em- Construction EUR 27,399 27,732 28,354 ployment relationships. Trade, transport, accommodation and food services, Information and communication EUR 23,816 24,335 24,767 Financial, insurance and Business services, Real estate activities EUR 24,081 24,058 24,735 Public and other services, education, health EUR 31,151 31,576 33,033

1 Provisional result 16.2 Labour Market

The Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit) calculates the labour market data (here annual averages). Unit 2003 2007 ¹ 2011 ¹ Unemployed persons number 252,967 198,066 143,146 viz. female number 120,715 97,189 65,604 foreign number 4,509 5,184 4,096 at the age of … 15 to 19 years number 4,437 3,789 1,543 20 to 24 years number 26,151 19,741 11,899

Announced positions ² number 5,840 6,937 10,201 Short-time workers number 5,675 2,878 6,247

Unemployment rate ³ % 17.5 17.0 11.1

Unemployment rate 14 %

JF MA MJ JA SO ND JF MA MJ JA SO ND JF MA MJ JA SO ND 2009 2010 2011

1 The annual averages since 2005 2 Retroactive corrections 3 Unemployed persons as % ficials and unemployed are not fully comparable with due to conversion of the of all civilian employees persons additionally self- the previous years because of statistics of announced (employees subject to so- employed persons and the introduction of the Code of positions with the Federal cial insurance and em- family workers), as of 30 Social Law II (SGB II) Employment Agency ployees at a low level, of- June on previous year 17 Construction, Housing

In the area of construction Construction Unit 2003 2007 2011 activity and housing con- work completed ¹ struction activity statistics Dwellings, total number 12,376 6,999 6,381 and the updating of the with … rooms ² residential buildings and 1 number 445 -3 185 housing stock are located. 2 number 599 339 448 The building and housing 3 number 1,403 798 991 inventory is updated be- 4 number 2,202 1,433 1,207 tween the building and 5 or more number 7,727 4,432 3,550 housing censuses, with living floor space per the construction statistics. dwelling (new buildings) m² 108 115 114 Apply the results for 2011, Non-residential buildings, due to the reporting date usable area, total 1000 m² 593 606 735 09.05.2011 has recently carried out building and housing census, prelimi- Building and dwelling stock nary. Residential buildings 1000 580 608 625 Dwellings 1000 1,265 1,275 1,285 with … Rooms 1 % 0.8 0.7 0.8 2 % 6.6 6.3 6.3 3 % 23.3 22.6 22.3 4 % 35.8 35.4 35.1 5 and more % 33.5 35.0 35.6 living floor space per dwellings m² 76 78 79

Construction work completed ¹ Dwellings, total 15,000

10,000

5,000

0 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

1 Incl. structural modifica- 2 Negative figures are structural modifi- tions to existing buildings due to joining of dwelling cations to existing units as a result of buildings 18.1 Industry

Manufacturing, Unit 2009 2010 2011 Industry includes the supply mining and quarrying of water and energy, min- Establishments ¹ number 1,099 1,099 1,180 ing and quarrying, and Employees ¹ 1000 90,271 91,479 98,592 manufacturing and con- Wages and salaries EUR mn 2,717 2,823 3,103 struction. Unless otherwise Turnover EUR mn 20,198 22,511 25,787 indicated, data is based on of which with foreign countries EUR mn 4,600 5,735 6,995 the data provided by companies with generally 20 or Turnover of selected more employees in accord- economic sections ance with the classification Manufacture of food products EUR mn 2,723 3,024 3,395 of Economic branches, valid Manufacture of wood and of since 2008 (Klassifikation products of wood and cork, der Wirtschaftszweige). except furniture; manufacture Crafts businesses are also of articles of straw and plaiting included. materials EUR mn 1,066 1,161 1,383 Manufacture of paper and paper products EUR mn 1,128 1,287 1,732 Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products EUR mn 1,397 1,701 1,830 Manufacture of rubber and plastic products EUR mn 998 1,011 1,175 Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products EUR mn 968 923 1,142 Manufacture of basic metals EUR mn 1,398 1,666 1,934 Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment EUR mn 1,067 1,180 1,425 Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products EUR mn 890 1,155 1,479 Manufacture of motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts EUR mn 691 836 1,036 Manufacture of other transport equipment EUR mn 1,107 1,441 • Repair and installation of machinery and equipment EUR mn 978 1,118 1,314

1 as of September 18.2 Industry

Production of selected goods Unit 2009 2010 2011 Stone, sand and clay 1000 t 12,535 12,616 12,951 Processed fruit and vegetables 1000 t 191 157 148 Cucumber made with vinegar or preserved 1000 t 66 56 55 Soft drinks, mineral waters and other water, bottled l mn 2,199 2,371 2,354 Paper, carton and cardboard 1000 t 954 1,012 1,606 Plastics in primary forms 1000 t 391 471 477 Biofuels, diesel substitute (diester) for use in traffic 1000 t 487 583 503 Fresh concrete (ready-mixed concrete) 1000 m³ 1,000 893 1,146 Iron, steel and ferro-alloys 1000 t 4,065 5,756 6,010 Automobile and automobile parts EUR mn 616 777 915 Medical and dental instruments and supplies EUR mn 202 226 238

2003 2007 2010 Energy consumption Total MJ mn 169,236 195,993 183,629 Gas MJ mn 30,880 41,341 43,274 Electricity MJ mn 27,069 31,239 29,630

Public energy supply Gross generation of electricity MJ mn 132,700 134,071 130,093 Electricity consumption ¹ MJ mn 51,300 51,988 51,314 Gas consumption MJ mn 113,347 107,539 104,134

1 Excl. own consumption and losses 18.3 Industry

Site preparation, Unit 2003 2007 2011 civil engineering Establishments ¹ number 4,469 4,782 4,702 Employees ² number 40,656 33,288 33,396 Hours worked ² mn 50.1 42.3 43.6 of which in house building ² mn 18.4 15.2 16.7 Turnover in construction work ² EUR mn 3,645.4 3,219.9 3,867.5

Building installation ³ Establishments ¹ number 688 452 582 Employees number 15,493 10,651 13,197 Turnover in construction work for previous year EUR mn 1,086.3 848.9 1,224.2

Turnover in construction work within the construction industry by type of construction, 2011

Housing Commercial and industrial public buildings Public buildings Commercial and industrial civil engineering Road construction Other construction 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 EUR mn

1 Results of the annual supplemen- 2 Projected results on the basis of 3 Establishments with generally tary survey (Site preperation, civil the supplementary survey 10 and more employees engerneering) or annual survey (building installation) – as of end of June 19.1 Retail Trade, Hotels and Restaurant Industry, Tourism

The index for the retail Unit 2003 2007 2011 trade and the hotel and Retail sale restaurant industry are Turnover relative • 116.9 135.9 calculated on the basis Employees relative • 115.7 121.7 2005 ≙ 100. The data on Food and beverage tourism come from the service activities statistics on accommoda- Turnover relative • 112.1 108.5 tions. Only accommoda- Employees relative • 107.0 96.0 tion establishments with more than eight beds Tourism and camping sites are Accomodation surveyed. establishments ¹ number 1,666 1,585 1,695 Beds 2 number 77,878 77,232 82,802 Guests, total 1000 3,253 3,627 4,053 Guests from Germany 1000 3,023 3,306 3,716 Guests from other countries 1000 229 322 337 of which Netherlands 1000 39 53 42 Poland 1000 21 31 50 Sweden 1000 15 22 21 Denmark 1000 15 17 22 Norway 1000 5 14 15 Overnights 1000 9,288 9,935 11,057

1 As of July 2 As of July, excl. campgrounds 19.2 Retail Trade, Hotels and Restaurant Industry, Tourism

Bed capacity in accommodation establishments

Uckermark July 2003 Uckermark July 2007 Prignitz July 2011 July 2003 July 2007 OsPrignitztprignitz–Ruppin 6,000 Oberhavel Barnim 4,000 July 2011 Ostprignitz–Ruppin 6,000 Oberhavel 2,000 Barnim 4,000 Märkisch–Oderland 0 Bed capacity Havelland 2,000 Märkisch–Oderland 0 Bed capacity Havelland Potsdam Frankfurt (Oder) Brandenburg an der Havel Potsdam Frankfurt (Oder) Brandenburg an der Havel Potsdam–Mittelmark Oder–Spree Teltow–Fläming Oder–Spree Potsdam–MittelmarDahme–Spreewalk d Teltow–Fläming Dahme–Spreewald Cottbus

Spree–NeißCottbe us Elbe–Elster Oberspreewald–Lausitz Spree–Neiße Elbe–Elster Oberspreewald–Lausitz 19.3 Retail Trade, Hotels and Restaurant Industry, Tourism

Unit 2003 2007 2011 Overnights 1000 9,288 9,935 11,057 … by type of accommodation 1000 Hotels and similar accommodation 1000 4,694 5,195 5,664 Hotel 1000 3,398 3,961 4,329 Hotel garni (hotel, breakfast only) 1000 535 480 576 Gasthof (inn) 1000 342 332 324 Pension 1000 419 422 435 Other accommodation 1000 4,594 4,740 5,393 Cottages, youth hostels 1000 714 786 895 Rest home, holiday home, training home 1000 1,040 1,135 926 Holiday centers, Holiday houses, Apartments 1000 531 663 1,168 Campsites 1000 836 752 896 Screening clinics and rehabilitation clinics 1000 1,472 1,404 1,508

Overnights 10,000 thousand by guest origin 9,000 8,000 7,000 6,000 Inland 5,000 4,000 Ausland 3,000 2,000 Germany 1,000 Other countries 0 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20 Foreign Trade

Unit 2003 2007 2011 Unit 2003 2007 2011 ¹ The foreign trade statistics Overnights 1000 9,288 9,935 11,057 Exports EUR mn 5,098.1 10,302.8 13,463.9 provide figures with regard … by type of accommodation 1000 Food industry EUR mn 294.1 482.4 950.7 to the movement of goods Hotels and similar of which food EUR mn 260.0 424.5 870.0 across the frontiers (export accommodation 1000 4,694 5,195 5,664 luxury articles and import) between Hotel 1000 3,398 3,961 4,329 (Genußmittel) EUR mn 25.6 44.0 35.4 Brandenburg and foreign Hotel garni (hotel, breakfast only) 1000 535 480 576 Trade and industry EUR mn 4,689.5 9,611.3 12,294.8 countries. The basis for the Gasthof (inn) 1000 342 332 324 raw materials EUR mn 40.3 77.0 117.1 results is provided by the Pension 1000 419 422 435 semi-finished customs documents of im- products EUR mn 432.0 1,470.0 1,187.1 porters and exporters in the Other accommodation 1000 4,594 4,740 5,393 finished products EUR mn 4,167.2 8,064.3 10,990.0 trading industry with coun- Cottages, youth hostels 1000 714 786 895 tries outside of the Europe- Rest home, holiday home, Important an Union (extra trade) as training home 1000 1,040 1,135 926 exporting countries well as the statistical regis- Holiday centers, Holiday houses, France EUR mn 358.6 1,221.3 2,077.5 trations of acquisitions and Apartments 1000 531 663 1,168 USA EUR mn 662.8 806.1 1,486.9 deliveries within the com- Campsites 1000 836 752 896 Poland EUR mn 464.2 1,450.1 1,699.0 munity within the meaning Screening clinics and United Kingdom EUR mn 348.0 695.4 644.7 of the Value-Added Tax Law rehabilitation clinics 1000 1,472 1,404 1,508 Italy EUR mn 329.7 626.2 798.6 (intra trade). Netherlands EUR mn 303.2 722.5 647.4 Imports EUR mn 5,718.0 11,601.0 18,479.4 Food industry EUR mn 474.4 846.3 1,481.5 of which food EUR mn 429.6 745.6 1,219.9 luxury articles (Genußmittel) EUR mn 36.5 74.3 229.7 Trade and industry EUR mn 5,135.5 10,495.9 16,359.5 raw materials EUR mn 2,363.6 4,691.0 7,613.1 semi-finished products EUR mn 387.4 766.7 1,165.2 finished products EUR mn 2,384.5 5,038.2 7,581.2 Important importing countries Russian Federation EUR mn 2,223.7 4,277.9 7,081.1 Poland EUR mn 633.8 1,053.8 2,434.7 USA EUR mn 179.9 649.7 909.5 Netherlands EUR mn 302.3 512.2 836.6 France EUR mn 308.7 564.9 639.6 United Kingdom EUR mn 207.0 697.2 932.8

1 Provisional result 21 Consumer Prices

The consumer price index, Index of consumer prices Unit 2003 2007 2011 shows the price develop- for Brandenburg ment of all goods and serv- Total cost of living index 96.4 104.0 110.0 ices purchased by private Food and non-alcoholic beverages index 99.0 106.7 116.2 households for consump- Alcoholic beverages, tobacco index 86.3 106.2 115.1 tion purposes, relative to a Clothing and footwear index 98.7 102.8 109.6 base year (here: 2005). The Housing, water, electricity, gas change in the consumer and other fuels index 96.1 104.1 110.0 price index compared to the Furnishings, household equipment same month last year is also and routine maintenance of the house index 100.1 103.1 106.6 known as »inflation«. Health index 79.8 101.0 105.9 Transport index 93.9 106.5 115.7 Communication index 102.7 94.9 85.6 Recreation and culture index 101.8 100.9 104.7 Education index 92.6 108.7 119.7 Restaurants and hotels index 100.1 104.0 111.6 Miscellaneous goods and services index 97.1 104.8 110.6

Index of consumer prices change on same month of previous year

4 % 3 2 1 0 -1 -2 -3 JF MA MJ JA SO ND JF MA MJ JA SO ND 2010 2011 22 Construction Prices

Price index Unit 2003 2007 2011 The price indices for new for the construction of new … buildings of selected con- Residential buildings index 96.2 114.0 127.2 struction types, shows the one-familiy buildings index 96.3 113.8 126.6 development of prices for multi-family buildings index 95.7 114.8 129.4 construction work Branden- Non-residential buildings burg Contractors achieved office buildings index 94.7 114.8 128.5 inpendent of the location of industrial buildings index 94.7 115.7 130.6 services compared to a base year (here: 2005). This in- Price index … cludes building and civil Road construction index 98.2 111.4 121.1 engineering as well as plant Bridges in connection maintenance of multi- with road construction index 93.8 112.2 126.7 family buildings. Local channels index 97.7 109.4 118.6 Price index for maintenance of … Multi-family buildings without decorative repairs index 96.4 111.5 125.6 Decorative repairs in a dwelling index 104.0 104.1 110.0

11 % Price index for the 10 construction of new 9 residential buildings 8 Change on previous year 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

23.1 Earnings

The described gross Fully employed workers ¹ annual and gross in industry and services Unit 2009 2010 2011 monthly earnings are Gross annual earnings averages from the without bonuses ² EUR 31,404 32,059 32,845 Quarterly Survey of ... of male employees EUR 31,626 32,341 33,148 earnings. The sample ... of female employees EUR 31,043 31,600 32,341 survey contains num- Gross monthly earnings bers of full-time, part- without bonuses ² EUR 2,617 2,672 2,737 time and marginally ... of male employees EUR 2,635 2,695 2,762 employed workers of ... of female employees EUR 2,587 2,633 2,695 nearly all industries Paid weekly working hours hrs 39.2 39.4 39.5 according to the WZ 2008.

Gross monthly earnings ² of fully employed people ¹ Executives in industry and service for 2011 Complex, varied assignments

Difficult professional assignments

Simple, semiskilled assignments

Unskilled, standardised assignments Men Women 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 EUR

1 Incl. civil servants 2 Weighted average of data reported for all four quarters 23.2 Earnings

Gross annual earnings of the full-time employees ¹ Unit 2009 2010 2011 in selected economic sectors Mining and quarring EUR 40,483 42,029 43,637 Manufacturing EUR 28,538 29,758 30,897 Energy supply EUR 42,025 43,131 44,270 Water supply ³ EUR 28,628 29,669 29,959 Construction EUR (26,065) 26,601 27,234 Retail Trade 4 EUR 26,689 26,861 27,558 Transport EUR 27,981 27,958 27,935 Hotels and restaurants EUR 18,011 17,993 18,529 Communication EUR (40,379) (40,092) (42,112) Provision of finance and insurance services EUR 38,713 39,754 40,545 Real estate and housing EUR 35,766 36,211 37,192 Provision of freelance, scientific and technical services EUR 35,742 35,892 36,832 Provision of other economic services EUR 21,034 21,244 21,843 Upbringing and education EUR 42,795 45,090 43,980 Health and social services EUR 35,916 35,805 36,865 Art, entertainment and recreation EUR • • • Provision of other services EUR 24,072 25,281 26,483

3 Incl. sewage and waste dispos- 4 Incl. maintenance and repair al, disposal of environmental of motor vehicles pollution 24.1 Public Finances

Annual financial statements Unit 2003 2007 2010 1 municipalities / municipal associations Expenditures on current account EUR mn 3,920 4,955 • of which staff expenditure EUR mn 1,497 1,490 1,683 current material expenditure EUR mn 1,032 1,071 • social benefits for including Hartz IV EUR mn 870 1,782 1,790 interest expenditure EUR mn 93 102 66 Capital expenditure EUR mn 1,086 993 • of which capital investments EUR mn 942 833 826 Adjusted expenditures without specified financial transactions EUR mn 5,007 5,948 6,416 Revenues on current account EUR mn 3,799 5,384 • of which taxes, parafiscal charge (net) EUR mn 760 1,249 1,380 key allocations EUR mn 1,119 1,506 1,170 requirements and other general assignments by land EUR mn 280 470 469 fees, earmarked levies EUR mn 524 539 553 Capital revenue EUR mn 910 927 • of which assignment for investments (federal and Land) EUR mn 615 665 657 Adjusted revenues without specified financial transactions EUR mn 4,709 6,311 6,395 Financial balance EUR mn – 298 363 – 21 Specified financial transactions Revenues EUR mn 372 189 • of which remove from reserves EUR mn 209 75 • credit market borrowing EUR mn 163 114 117 Expenditure EUR mn 537 1,213 • of which credit market repayment revenues EUR mn 176 196 191 building up of reserves EUR mn 83 247 • cover deficits from previous years EUR mn 277 770 • Debt level (as of 31 Dec.) 2 EUR mn 1,784 1,634 1,471 Public service employees of the 2003 2007 2011 municipalities /association of municipalities number 46,838 41,679 43,823 of which female number 33,835 29,932 31,429 of which core budget number 42,479 39,667 41,834 of which special funds, hospitals number 4,359 2,012 1,989 Special purpose association number 192 1,759 1,818

1 Provisional data 2 At credit market, without Loans for strengthening cash resources 24.2 Public Finances

Annual financial statements Unit 2003 2007 2009 of the state budget Expenditures on current account EUR mn 8,040 8,344 8,432 of which staff expenditure EUR mn 2,396 2,043 2,046 current material expenditure EUR mn 564 528 584 interest expenditure EUR mn 850 879 789 Capital expenditure EUR mn 1,832 1,741 1,760 of which capital investments EUR mn 361 231 113 Adjusted expenditures without specified financial transactions EUR mn 9,872 10,085 10,192 Revenues on current account EUR mn 8,034 9,468 8,748 of which taxes, parafiscal charge EUR mn 4,289 5,488 5,006 assignments and assessments EUR mn 2,325 2,673 2,476 Capital revenue EUR mn 790 923 916 Adjusted revenues without specified financial transactions EUR mn 8,824 10,391 9,663 Balance of budgetary allocations EUR mn 0 16 16 Financial balance EUR mn -1,048 322 -513 Specified financial transactions Revenues EUR mn 3,199 3,317 3,990 of which remove from reserves EUR mn 83 262 226 credit market borrowing EUR mn 3,116 3,054 3,764 Expenditure EUR mn 2,153 3,647 3,612 of which credit market repayment revenues EUR mn 1,846 2,968 3,380 building up of reserves EUR mn 107 679 232 Surplus / shortfall EUR mn – 2 – 8 – 135 Debt level (as of 31 Dec.) ¹ EUR mn 16,264 17,280 17,433

Public service employees of the 2003 2007 2011 Land Brandenburg number 69,720 61,437 57,995 of which female number 41,172 36,263 34,366 Core budget number 66,632 57,834 46,006 Special funds, hospitals number 3,088 3,603 11,989 Legally independent institutions in the form of public law number 1,146 1,882 2,712 Social insurance institutions number 4,374 5,399 8,654

1 At credit market, strengthening cash without Loans for resources 25 Judicature

The data on courts, Unit 2003 2007 2011 convict and the Courts number 48 46 46 enforcement of Judges 1 number 710 850 814 sentences are Public prosecutors 1 number 309 309 307 taken from the Lawyers number 1,998 2,266 2,345 statistics on Judi- Notaries number 85 83 77 cature which are maintained at the First-instance proceedings national level as (New acquisitions) the business statis- Local Court (Amtsgericht) number 119,406 107,436 105,412 tics of the adminis- Regional Court (Landgericht) number 12,996 10,188 8,897 tration of justice. Social Court 11,827 15,728 24,188 Labour Court number 20,128 12,353 12,454 Administrative Court number 12,718 7,687 6,535 Financial Court ² number 2,715 4,848 4,760 Convict number 34,077 31,725 22,048 of which because of offences … against public order and offences in office number 879 965 689 against sexual self-determination number 214 267 172 other offences against the person, except in road traffic number 3,541 3,820 2,883 theft and misappropriation number 6,426 5,734 4,216 robbery and extortion number 314 301 215 other offenses against property and forgery of documents number 5,098 5,572 5,283 offences dangerous to the public number 290 223 136 road traffic offences number 9,144 8,683 5,556 according to other federal or state laws number 8,171 6,160 2,898 Prisoners ³ number 1,965 1,791 1,317 viz. men number 1,926 1,734 1,278 women number 39 57 39 juveniles and adolescents number 191 161 180

1 Staff positions, 2 Since 2007 common 3 As on 31 March according to budget Tax Court Berlin / excl. imprisonment Brandenburg on remand 26 Political Parties

Members of selected political parties ¹

GRÜNE / Administrative district SPD CDU DIE LINKE B 90 FDP 1 Brandenburg an der Havel 168 215 206 30 38 2 Cottbus 256 219 x ² 33 x ² 3 Frankfurt (Oder) 125 107 350 16 31 4 Potsdam 735 505 901 181 189 5 Barnim 345 310 548 73 74 6 Dahme-Spreewald 376 394 605 51 70 7 Elbe-Elster 170 543 280 10 89 8 Havelland 492 506 363 81 109 9 Märkisch-Oderland 364 321 778 61 87 10 Oberhavel 596 448 524 66 112 11 Oberspreewald-Lausitz 196 365 257 11 36 12 Oder-Spree 438 318 562 68 80 13 Ostprignitz-Ruppin 218 283 242 34 71 14 Potsdam-Mittelmark 732 726 454 116 154 15 Prignitz 120 282 190 19 44 16 Spree-Neiße 232 390 897 ² 14 119 ² 17 Teltow-Fläming 425 415 379 32 76 18 Uckermark 273 285 425 39 71 Brandenburg 6,261 6,632 7,961 935 1,450

1 According to data of the 2 Merged to district political parties; as at the chapter Lausitz end of 2011 27.1 Elections

In voting for the Parliament of to one of the 44 constituencies. Brandenburg (Brandenburger Further 44 candidates were Landtag), the first vote was cast elected by the second vote for for direct election of a candidate a party list.

Results of the election to the Parliament of Brandenburg on 27 September 2009 – second vote in percent –

DIE GRÜNE / Administrative district Turnout SPD LINKE CDU B 90 FDP Others Brandenburg an der Havel 60.1 35.9 27.4 21.8 4.3 5.2 5.5 Cottbus 63.4 33.5 29.3 18.5 5.3 6.6 6.8 Frankfurt (Oder) 64.1 29.5 34.1 18.9 5.4 6.2 5.9 Potsdam 72.2 34.8 28.7 13.9 11.2 6.8 4.6 Barnim 66.3 29.6 31.5 18.0 6.1 6.8 8.0 Dahme-Spreewald 70.2 33.0 26.0 20.8 5.4 7.3 7.5 Elbe-Elster 67.5 31.2 25.1 24.1 2.9 7.1 9.7 Havelland 67.9 33.8 23.1 21.4 6.8 8.2 6.7 Märkisch-Oderland 66.7 29.2 32.4 18.0 5.3 7.1 8.0 Oberhavel 68.0 34.4 23.2 20.8 6.6 8.0 6.9 Oberspreewald-Lausitz 64.2 31.7 27.0 22.5 3.2 6.6 9.0 Oder-Spree 67.7 31.7 29.8 18.7 5.1 7.3 7.5 Ostprignitz-Ruppin 61.7 35.1 27.6 19.0 4.9 6.6 6.8 Potsdam-Mittelmark 71.6 35.5 22.1 21.0 7.4 8.2 5.7 Prignitz 64.5 37.1 26.8 20.4 3.1 6.6 6.1 Spree-Neiße 66.8 32.2 26.8 21.1 4.3 7.2 8.4 Teltow-Fläming 68.0 33.8 25.5 19.7 5.5 8.2 7.3 Uckermark 63.5 34.6 28.1 19.9 3.6 6.2 7.6 Brandenburg 67.0 33.0 27.2 19.8 5.7 7.2 7.1 27.2 Elections

The parties received parliamen- share of the second votes in the many compensatory seats as were tary seats in accordance with their entire polling area was authorised required for allocation of the par- share of the valid second votes. A to retain such seats won in addi- liamentary seats in accordance party which won more direct par- tion to the number gained with the proportion of the second liamentary seats than it was enti- through proportional representa- votes. tled to in accordance with its tion. The other parties received as

Seats to the Parliament of Brandenburg (Brandenburger Landtag) since 1990

Seats, 1990 1994 1999 2004 2009 won in constituencies 44 44 44 44 44 SPD 30 44 37 17 19 DIE LINKE ¹ – – 5 23 21 CDU 14 – 2 4 4 FDP – – – – – GRÜNE/B 90 – – – – – DVU x x – – – won by party list 44 44 45 44 44 SPD 6 8 – 16 12 DIE LINKE ¹ 13 18 17 6 5 CDU 13 18 23 16 15 FDP 6 – – – 7 GRÜNE/B 90 6 – – – 5 DVU x x 5 6 – Seats, total 88 88 89 88 88 SPD 36 52 37 33 31 DIE LINKE ¹ 13 18 22 29 26 CDU 27 18 25 20 19 FDP 6 – – – 7 GRÜNE/B 90 6 – – – 5 DVU x x 5 6 –

1 To 2004 PDS 27.3 Elections

Results of the 14.10.90 11.09.94 11.09.99 19.09.04 27.09.09 election to the Parliament 55% of Brandenburg 50 since 1990 45 – second vote in percent – 40 35 30 SPD 25 DIELINKE 20 CDU 15 10 FDP 5 GRÜNE/B 90 Results of the 0 direct election of DVU a candidate to one of the 44 constituencies to the Parliament of Brandenburg, on 27 September 2009 SPD DIELINKE CDU

SPD CDU LNK GRN FDP DVU

SPD DIELINKE CDU

SPD CDU LNK GRN FDP DVU 27.4 Elections

Distribution of seats in the district assemblies (Kreistage) and the city councils (Stadtverordnetenversammlungen) according to the election on 28 Septmber 2008 DIE GRÜNE / Administrative district Total SPD LINKE CDU FDP B 90 DVU NPD Others Brandenburg an der Havel 46 12 11 14 3 2 x x 4 Cottbus 50 14 14 9 3 2 x 2 6 Frankfurt (Oder) 46 10 17 8 3 1 x x 7 Potsdam 56 15 17 7 3 5 1 x 8 Barnim 56 12 16 9 4 3 2 x 10 Dahme-Spreewald 56 15 13 11 4 2 x 3 8 Elbe-Elster 50 10 10 14 3 1 3 x 9 Havelland 56 16 12 12 5 4 x 2 5 Märkisch-Oderland 56 13 17 9 4 2 2 x 9 Oberhavel 56 15 13 11 4 4 x 2 7 Oberspreewald-Lausitz 50 14 11 11 2 2 2 x 8 Oder-Spree 56 17 16 8 5 2 – 3 5 Ostprignitz-Ruppin 50 12 12 9 4 3 x x 10 Potsdam-Mittelmark 56 15 11 13 5 4 1 x 7 Prignitz 46 10 9 10 4 1 1 x 11 Spree-Neiße 50 11 11 12 5 1 x 2 8 Teltow-Fläming 56 17 14 10 5 2 1 x 7 Uckermark 50 12 10 10 5 2 x 2 9 Brandenburg 942 240 234 187 71 43 13 16 138

SPD – Social Democratic Party of Germany DIE LINKE – The Left CDU –Christian Democratic Union of Germany FDP – Free Democratic Party GRÜNE / B90 – Alliance 90 / The Greens DVU – German People’s Union NPD – National Democratic Party of Germany 27.5 Elections

On 27 September 2009 new election to the German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) took place. In Brandenburg aproximately 2.1 million citizens entitled to vote from a total 62.2 million were able to cast their votes in 10 of 299 constituencies in Germany.

Results of the election to the German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) on 27 September 2009 in Brandenburg – second vote in percent – GRÜNE / Constituency Turnout SPD DIE LINKE CDU FDP B 90 Others 57 62.9 28.0 29.1 23.7 8.6 4.4 6.1 58 62.5 26.0 31.0 23.9 7.7 4.6 6.8 59 68.6 25.7 23.3 24.8 11.5 7.8 7.0 60 68.1 21.6 33.6 21.6 9.0 6.0 8.1 61 64.4 27.7 28.6 24.0 8.0 4.9 6.9 62 72.8 26.0 25.4 21.4 10.5 10.7 5.9 63 69.0 25.9 27.1 23.6 9.7 6.0 7.6 64 66.8 24.1 31.4 22.5 8.9 5.5 7.6 65 65.3 24.1 29.3 24.4 9.0 4.9 8.3 66 65.5 22.9 28.0 27.4 8.9 3.5 9.3 Brandenburg 67.0 25.1 28.5 23.6 9.3 6.1 7.4 Seats (19) x 5 6 5 2 1 – Direct seats (10) x 5 4 1 – – – List seats (9) x – 2 4 2 1 –

Constituencies 57 Prignitz – Ostprignitz-Ruppin – 62 Potsdam – Potsdam-Mittelmark II – Havelland I Teltow-Fläming II 58 Uckermark – Barnim I 63 Dahme-Spreewald – Teltow- 59 Oberhavel – Havelland II Fläming III – Oberspreewald-Lausitz I 60 Märkisch-Oderland – Barnim II 64 Frankfurt (Oder) – Oder-Spree 61 Brandenburg an der Havel – 65 Cottbus – Spree-Neiße Potsdam-Mittelmark I – 66 Elbe-Elster – Havelland III – Teltow-Fläming I Oberspreewald-Lausitz II 27.6 Elections

On 7 June 2009 the citizens of Brandenburg were able to di- rectly participate in a election for the European Parliament (Europäisches Parlament) for the fourth time.

Results of the elections to the European Parliament (Europäisches Parlament) on 7 June 2009 in Brandenburg – second vote in percent –

DIE GRÜNE / Administrative district Turnout LINKE CDU SPD B 90 FDP Others Brandenburg an der Havel 24.4 25.7 22.6 26.9 7.1 6.2 11.6 Cottbus 25.8 28.5 21.0 23.7 8.9 6.0 12.0 Frankfurt (Oder) 28.6 33.3 21.8 19.6 7.4 5.4 12.5 Potsdam 37.0 28.3 14.7 23.2 15.7 7.0 11.1 Barnim 28.5 31.4 19.9 19.7 9.0 6.7 13.3 Dahme-Spreewald 33.3 25.7 22.7 22.2 8.0 7.6 13.8 Elbe-Elster 29.6 22.1 29.3 21.0 4.3 7.2 16.1 Havelland 29.6 19.8 24.9 23.9 10.7 8.8 11.9 Märkisch-Oderland 29.2 32.8 19.3 20.0 7.2 7.2 13.5 Oberhavel 30.6 22.9 23.2 22.8 10.4 8.7 11.9 Oberspreewald-Lausitz 27.8 25.1 26.4 22.4 4.5 6.4 15.3 Oder-Spree 30.3 29.2 20.7 22.6 6.8 6.8 13.8 Ostprignitz-Ruppin 25.4 25.6 23.1 24.8 7.6 6.9 12.1 Potsdam-Mittelmark 34.0 20.6 23.4 24.1 11.6 9.0 11.3 Prignitz 27.6 24.6 26.6 24.9 4.6 7.6 11.8 Spree-Neiße 29.2 25.5 25.2 21.5 5.6 7.0 15.2 Teltow-Fläming 30.8 23.1 22.5 24.9 7.9 8.3 13.3 Uckermark 26.6 27.6 23.6 24.1 5.4 6.3 13.0 Land Brandenburg 29.9 26.0 22.5 22.8 8.4 7.4 13.0 28 The administrative districts of Brandenburg 2011

Ober - Ost - Potsdam – Land Dahme – Elbe – Havel - Märkisch – spreewald – Oder – prignitz – Mittel - Spree – Teltow – Ucker - Branden - Unit Barnim Spreewald Elster land Oderland Oberhavel Lausitz Spree Ruppin mark Prignitz Neiße Fläming mark burg

Area km² 1,472 2,262 1,889 1,717 2,150 1,798 1,217 2,243 2,509 2,575 2,124 1,648 2,092 3,058 29,484 Population 1000 177.0 161.6 110.3 155.2 189.7 203.5 120.0 182.8 102.1 205.7 80.9 124.7 161.5 128.2 2,495.6 Inhabitants/ha rate 1.2 0.7 0.6 0.9 0.9 1.1 1.0 0.8 0.4 0.8 0.4 0.8 0.8 0.4 0.8 of which female % 50.3 50.4 50.3 50.5 50.1 50.5 50.6 50.2 50.0 50.4 50.7 50.0 50.1 50.2 50.4 of which foreigners % 2.6 2.8 1.7 1.8 2.3 2.0 2.7 3.5 2.1 2.3 1.5 2.8 2.5 3.2 2.8 Age in years … 0 to 5 % 4.8 4.8 4.0 4.9 4.6 5.0 4.0 4.5 4.4 5.0 3.9 4.0 4.9 4.2 4.7 6 to 14 % 7.1 7.2 6.5 8.4 7.0 8.0 6.1 6.7 6.7 8.4 6.3 6.3 7.6 6.7 7.1 15 to 64 % 66.8 65.2 64.5 65.8 66.9 66.0 63.8 65.4 66.5 66.1 64.3 65.7 66.4 65.5 65.9 65 and over % 21.2 22.9 25.0 20.9 21.5 21.1 26.0 23.4 22.3 20.5 25.5 24.0 21.1 23.6 22.4 Live births rate ¹ 7.4 7.3 6.1 7.5 6.9 7.5 6.7 7.2 6.8 7.4 6.3 6.2 7.4 6.4 7.3 Deaths rate ¹ 10.4 11.3 13.5 10.3 10.8 10.3 13.5 11.1 11.7 10.0 14.4 12.1 10.5 12.5 11.1 Arrival ² rate ¹ 39.1 41.8 19.1 36.4 35.7 36.8 22.1 37.5 27.4 43.5 23.7 23.7 39.8 23.9 25.4 Departure ² rate ¹ 35.5 39.5 26.9 31.5 36.1 32.1 29.0 39.4 29.9 37.9 29.7 31.6 35.8 30.0 24.6 Pupils ³ number 15,019 14,655 9,121 15,913 15,905 19,537 8,692 16,017 9,057 18,531 6,274 8,933 14,657 10,983 222,714 of which foreigners % 0.9 1.3 0.4 1.9 0.9 1.0 0.9 1.4 0.8 2.4 0.9 1.6 0.8 1.2 1.4 Dwelling units ⁴ 1000 87.6 77.0 61.8 75.9 95.6 99.7 66.1 90.9 52.7 95.4 47.9 67.4 81.1 67.7 1,285.2 Day care centres number 108 112 101 119 128 117 83 128 82 147 75 95 114 94 1,768 Places number 12,069 10,898 7,533 10,440 12,915 14,003 6,892 12,269 6,591 15,641 5,253 7,813 10,546 8,061 169,683 Cared children number 11,188 9,745 6,466 9,324 11,487 12,428 6,071 10,944 5,664 13,881 4,394 6,840 9,396 7,020 151,502 Staff number 1,329 1,178 822 1,134 1,345 1,462 747 1,370 688 1,584 596 867 1,178 915 18,626 Monthly mean net household income ⁵ EUR 1,825 1,825 1,625 1,975 1,700 1,925 1,600 1,800 1,700 2,100 1,425 1,525 1,875 1,550 1,725 Manufacturing ⁶ ⁷ Establishments ⁸ number 62 92 94 73 62 89 69 80 61 100 54 65 114 65 1,180 Employees ⁸ number 3,877 5,422 6,155 6,901 2,994 8,885 6,689 7,461 4,429 5,247 4,243 8,312 12,260 6,391 98,592 Public service employees of the municipalities/municipal associations–core budget ⁹ number 2,768 2,895 2,119 2,447 2,835 3,654 2,074 3,095 2,156 3,158 1,703 2,352 2,762 2,316 41,834

1 Per 1000 inhabitants 4 Dwelling units in resi- 5 Source: Microcensus 2 Across the respective dential and non-resi- 6 As well as mining and boundaries dential buildings, excl. quarrying 3 At general education hostels schools

7 Establishments gener- 8 September ally employing 20 or 9 As of 30 June more employees 28 The administrative districts of Brandenburg 2011

Branden - Frank - Land burg an furt Branden - Unit der Havel Cottbus (Oder) Potsdam burg Area km² 229 164 148 188 29,484 Population 1000 71.5 102.1 60.0 158.9 2,495.6 Inhabitants/ha rate 3.1 6.2 4.1 8.5 0.8 of which female % 50.9 50.7 51.4 51.5 50.4 of which foreigners % 2.8 3.9 5.4 5.3 2.8 Age in years … 0 to 5 % 4.6 4.4 4.5 6.3 4.7 6 to 14 % 5.7 5.8 6.1 7.2 7.1 15 to 64 % 63.2 67.1 66.7 67.0 65.9 65 and over % 26.5 22.7 22.7 19.5 22.4 Live births rate ¹ 8.1 7.7 7.0 10.6 7.3 Deaths rate ¹ 12.4 10.4 11.8 8.6 11.1 Arrival ² rate ¹ 37.8 45.4 49.7 62.3 25.4 Departure ² rate ¹ 36.9 42.3 50.4 51.8 24.6 Pupils ³ number 6,123 9,203 5,772 18,322 222,714 of which foreigners % 1.5 1.8 4.0 2.4 1.4 Dwelling units ⁴ 1000 44.0 57.1 33.5 83.6 1,285.2 Day care centres number 48 63 39 115 1,768 Places number 4,418 6,355 4,274 13,712 169,683 Cared children number 4,051 5,844 3,946 12,813 151,502 Staff number 560 756 540 1,555 18,626 Monthly mean net household income ⁵ EUR 1,525 1,475 1,450 1,825 1,725 Manufacturing ⁶ ⁷ Establishments ⁸ number 36 22 15 27 1,180 Employees ⁸ number 4,538 1,727 2,268 793 98,592 Public service employees of the municipalities/municipal associations–core budget ⁹ number 1,060 1,510 1,022 1,908 41,834

1 Per 1000 inhabitants 4 Dwelling units in resi- 6 As well as mining and 8 September 2 Across the respective dential and non-resi- quarrying 9 As of 30 June boundaries dential buildings, excl. 7 Establishments gener- 3 At general education hostels ally employing 20 or schools 5 Source: Microcensus more employees 29 Brandenburg 1990 to 2011

Unit 1990 2000 2011 Area km² 29,056 29,477 29,484

Population ¹ 1000 2,542.7 2,602.0 2,495.6 Live births rate ² 6.8 7.1 7.3 Deaths rate ² 12.3 10.0 11.1 Balance rate ² – 5.5 – 2.9 – 3.8 Arrival rate ² 15.6 28.6 25.4 Departure rate ² 24.1 25.4 24.6 Balance rate ² – 8.5 3.2 0.7 Population increase or decrease rate ² – 14.0 0.3 – 3.1

Marriages ¹ rate ² 3.1 3.8 4.8

Divorces rate ² 2.0 2.3 2.1

Employed persons (workplace) 1000 1,383.1 1,077.2 1,072.2 Agriculture, forestry and fishing % 12.2 3.2 2.8 Industry % 41.4 27.4 22.6 Service industries % 46.4 69.3 74.5

Dwellings 1000 1,085.2 1,236.1 1,285.2 ³ rate ² 419 475 515 ³

Pupils ⁴ 1000 346.9 337.8 222.7 Students (winter semester) 1000 5.4 33.0 51.7

1 Data for 1990 are from 1991 2 Per 1000 inhabitants 3 Provisional result 4 At general education schools 30 The Region Berlin / Brandenburg 2011

Selected structural Berlin / data on the Lands Branden - Branden - Berlin and Unit Berlin burg burg Brandenburg Area km² 892 29,484 30,376 Population 1000 3,501.9 2,495.6 5,997.5 of which female % 51.0 50.4 50.7 Foreigners 1000 494.4 69.3 563.7 of which female % 48.6 43.1 48.0 Population density per km² 3,927 85 197 Age in years 0 to 5 % 5.4 4.7 5.1 6 to 14 % 6.9 7.1 7.0 15 to 64 % 68.7 65.9 67.5 65 and over % 18.9 22.4 20.4 Share among 18-year-old in the population % 14.6 13.8 14.2 Share of foreigners in the population % 14.1 2.8 9.4 Marriage … per 1000 inhabitants Marriages number 3.6 4.8 4.1 Divorces number 2.3 2.1 2.2 Natural population changes … per 1000 inhabitants Live Births number 9.5 7.3 8.6 Deaths number 9.0 11.1 9.9 Migrations Arrival number 158,864 63,387 172,118 ¹ Departure number 119,443 61,540 130,850 ¹ Balance number 39,421 1,847 41,268 ¹

1 Across the boundary of the region 2 Source: micro-census 4 Source: The Federal Employ- Berlin/Brandenburg, excl. migrations 3 At schools of general educa- ment Agency / yearly aver- between Berlin and Brandenburg tion and occupational schools age 30 The Region Berlin / Brandenburg 2011

Berlin / Branden - Branden - Unit Berlin burg burg Population ² 1000 3,474.6 2,498.8 5,973.3 … by labour force participation Labour force 1000 1,836.7 1,359.7 3,196.3 Persons in employment % 88.1 91.2 89.4 Unemployed persons % 11.9 8.8 10.6 Non-labour force 1000 1,637.9 1,139.1 2,777.0 Private households, by size ² Total of private households 1000 1,995.4 1,264.6 3,260.1 Single-person households 1000 1,078.8 477.1 1,555.9 Multi-person households 1000 916.6 787.5 1,704.1 with 2 persons % 63.4 61.8 62.7 with 3 persons % 19.6 23.4 21.3 with 4 persons % 12.5 12.0 12.3 with 5 and more persons % 4.5 2.8 3.7 Dwelling units per 1000 inhabitants number 543 515 532 Living floor space per dwelling m² 71 79 74 per inhabitant m² 38 41 39 Education Pupils, 2011 / 2012 school year ³ number 412,558 270,106 682,664 Students, winter semester 2011/ 2012 number 153,694 51,676 205,370 Labour market 4 Unemployment rate 5 % 13.3 10.7 12.1 Unemployed persons number 228,823 143,146 371,969 viz. female % 43.4 45.8 44.3 foreign % 21.4 2.9 14.3 age from 15 to 24 years % 9.5 9.4 9.5 age from 55 to 64 years % 13.1 20.7 16.0

5 Unemployed persons as ployment (national in- civil servants and unem- % of the dependent la- surance contributors and ployed) as of 30 June on bour force in civilian em- marginally employed, previous year 30 The Region Berlin / Brandenburg 2011

Selected structural Berlin / data on the Lands Branden - Branden - Berlin and Unit Berlin burg burg Brandenburg Public social benefits … per inhabitant Expenditure of social welfare EUR 433 221 345 … per 1000 inhabitants Recipients of continual subsistence payment, end of year number 5.5 3.7 4.7 Recipients of basic security in old age and disability number 18.0 8.3 14.0 Recipients of benefits under the 5th to 9th Chapter of SGB XII at the end of year number 16.6 13.0 15.1 Transport Motor vehicles 1 January 2011 1000 1,304.6 1,585.5 2,890.0 New registrations of motor vehicles number 97,946 76,874 174,820 Road accidents number 130,010 80,574 210,584 Tourism Accomodation establishments ¹ number 782 1,695 2,477 Beds 2 number 121,056 82,802 203,858 Guests 1000 9,866 4,053 13,919 Overnights 1000 22,359 11,057 33,416

Road accidents involving injury 22000000==100100 8080 6060 4040 2020 BerlBerlinin BrandenburBrandenburgg 00 20200202202003032020040420200505202006062020070720020088 2 20090092020101020201111

1 As of July 2 As of July, excl. campgrounds 30 The Region Berlin / Brandenburg 2011

Berlin / Branden - Branden - Unit Berlin burg burg Manufacturing ³ ⁴ Establishments ⁵ number 737 1,180 1,917 Employees ⁵ number 93,118 98,592 191,710 Turnover EUR mn 24,809 25,787 50,596 of which with foreign countries EUR mn 11,200 6,995 18,195

Construction ⁴ ⁶ Establishments number 196 327 523 Employees number 11,000 16,213 27,213

Foreign trade Exports EUR mn 12,738.8 13,463.9 26,202.7 Change on previous year % 5.8 10.0 7.9 Imports EUR mn 10,100.9 18,479.4 28,580.3 Change on previous year % 6.3 27.9 19.3

Gross domestic product price-adjusted Change on previous year % 2.3 2.4 2.3

Consumer price index (2005 ≙ 100) ⁶ index 110.5 110.0 x

Price index for residential buildings (2005 ≙ 100) ⁶ index 115.7 123.9 x

3 As well as mining and 4 Establishments generally 5 September quarrying employing 20 and more 6 Yearly average employees The northernmost, southernmost, westernmost and easternmost Brandenburg- Statistics Geographical location northernmost point – Uckerland, district Uckermark 53° 33‘ 35“ north latitude 13° 48‘ 05“ east longitude southernmost point – Ortrand, district Oberspreewald-Lausitz 51° 21‘ 32“ north latitude 13° 45‘ 48“ east longitude westernmost point – Lenzerwische, district Prignitz 53° 07‘ 25“ north latitude 11° 16‘ 05“ east longitude easternmost point – Neiße-Malxetal, district Spree-Neiße 51° 36‘ 40“ north latitude 14° 46‘ 05“ east longitude