statistics Berlin Brandenburg Berlin-Brandenburg Amt für Statistik : Berlin–Statistik 2016 Die kleine English edition ha city area million inhabitants million economically active population Editor 89,168 ໠3.5 ໠1.8 2.0 million privat households ໠166 museums ໠175,917 students ໠81 hospitals 49,654 asylum seekers ໠94.7 percent of children in age from 3 until under 6 years in day care centres 34,813 places in nursing homes ໠17.4 million EUR investment in environmental protection ໠21.0 million air passengers 124.2 billion EUR gross domestic product ໠42,124 business registrations ໠39,786 EUR compensation of employees per employee 320 thousand residential buildings ໠24.9 billion EUR turnover in manufacturing ໠12.4 million guests of Berlin 14.1 billion EUR exports ໠107.7 index of consumer prices based on 2010 60.5 billion EUR dept level ໠170 convicts because of offences dangerous to the public 66.9 percent turnout in the election to the House of Representatives of Berlin on 18.09.2016 Information management Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg Behlertstraße 3 a 14467 Potsdam Telephone: +49 331 8173-1777 Telefax: +49 30 9028-4091 E-Mail: [email protected] www.statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de Explanation of symbols – no figures … data will be available later • numerical value unknown or not to be disclosed x cell blocked for logical reasons ( ) limited informational value because numerical value is of limited statistical reliability / no data because Imprint Photograph credits the numerical value is not sufficiently reliable Published »The Berlin Bear« in December 2016 (heraldic beast) Design and Layout The photo was created Abbreviation of units Amt für Statistik with the kind support of bn billion Berlin-Brandenburg Mrs. Kutzner (District Office EUR euro Printed by Berlin-Mitte) in October ha hectare TASTOMAT GmbH 2011. hrs hours © AfS Berlin-Brandenburg km kilometre © Amt für Statistik km2 square kilometre Berlin-Brandenburg l litre Potsdam, 2016 m2 square metre Reproduction and m3 cubic metre distribution, also of MJ mega joule parts, are permitted mm millimetre provided that the source mn million is mentioned. t ton Contents Die kleineDie Berlin-Statistik 1 City Area | 6 16 Employment and compensation of employees, Labour Market | 32 2 Population | 8 17 Construction, Housing | 34 3 Livelihood | 13 18y Industr | 35 4 Households and Families | 14 19 Retail Trade, Hotel and 5 Culture | 15 Restaurant Industry, Tourism | 38 6 Education | 16 20 Foreign Trade | 41 7 Sports, Leisure | 19 21 Consumer Prices | 42 8 Public health system | 20 22 Construction Prices | 43 9 Public social benefits | 22 23 Earnings | 44 10 Facilities for child care, 24 Public Finances | 46 youth welfare | 23 25 Judicature | 48 11 Care | 25 26 Political Parties | 49 12 Environment | 26 27 Elections | 50 13 Transport | 28 28 The Boroughs of Berlin 2015 | 56 14 National Accounts | 30 29 Berlin 1871 to 2015 | 58 15 Business notification, Insolvencies | 31 30 The Region Berlin/Brandenburg 2015 | 60 Introduction »Die kleine BERLIN-STATISTIK On December 31, 2015 the area of Berlin 2016« (statistics for the City of Berlin covered 892 km². More than 41 percent of 2016, key facts and figures) offers infor- it were building and adjacent open area mation on the development of the German and nearly 15 percent transport area. Rec- capital, based on the most important reation area covered 12 and production statistical results. area 0.6 percent. Key figures to demographic, economic, In 2015 more than 38 thousand children social, cultural and political structures of were born alive in Berlin. The number of Berlin are shown in Chapter 1 to 27. The deaths was more than 34 thousand, which results are compared to previous years. The leads to a surplus of births of 4 thousand brochure also contains information on the people. Berlin registered in 2015 a migra- city’s boroughs (Chapter 28), data on Ber- tion surplus of approximately 43 thousand lin‘s development since 1871 (Chapter 29) people. At the end of 2015 Berlin had and figures for the region of Berlin/ nearly 3.5 million inhabitants, 50 thousand Brandenburg (Chapter 30). persons more compared to the beginning of the year. About 546 thousand foreigners lived in Berlin at the end of 2015. In 2015 nearly 2.0 million private house- holds has been counted, with a share of 55 percent single-person households. 340 thousand families with children under the age of 18 lived in Berlin. In the school year 2015/16 approximately 336 thousand pupils attended general education schools, including 10 percent at private schools. In the winter semester 2015/16 there were about 176 thousand students in Ber- lin, of which were 50 percent female stu- dents. 67 percent of the students were en- rolled at universities. 32 percent were students in the fields of legal, economic, and social sciences faculties, and 27 per- cent students of engineering. Die kleineDie In 2015 more than 21 thousand physicians The gross domestic product (GDP) in Berlin and 4 thousand dentists practiced in Ber- increased by 3.0 percent, compared to Berlin-Statistik lin. 2.1 percent in 2014. 81 hospitals in Berlin has nearly 20 thou- sand beds in. The average length of stay In 2016, the election to the House of Repre- was 7.4 days. sentatives of Berlin (Abgeordnetenhaus) had been held. The Social Democratic Party In 2015 there were approximately 22 (SPD) with 21.6 percent of the secondary thousand recipients of continual subsis- votes is the strongest party in Berlin, fol- tence payment, 74 thousand recipients lowed by the Christian Democratic Union of basic security benefits in old age and in (CDU) with 17.6 percent. The third-strongest cases of reduced earning capacity and political force was The Left (DIE LINKE) with 60 thousand recipients of benefits from 15.6 percent. the 5th to 9th Chapter to the Sozialgesetz- buch XII (SGB XII). »Die kleine BERLIN-STATISTIK 2016« gives an initial overview of the data The number of visitors and overnight stays provided by official statistics. A similar steadily increased over the course of 13 brochure is available for the federal state of years. Overnight stays even exceeded the Brandenburg (»Die kleine record of 2014, with more than 30.2 mil- BRANDENBURG-STATISTIK lion nights in total. Also the total number 2016«). Both booklets are also published of visitors increased up to 12.4 million, in German. Comparative figures for the whereas the the average length of stay of federal states can be found in the common tourists in Berlin was 2.4 days statistics portal of the statistical offices of Germany and the federal states Nearly 11 thousand dwellings were built in www.statistikportal.de. Berlin in 2015, nearly 25 percent more than in the previous year. Most dwellings were built in in the boroughs of Pankow, Mitte and Treptow-Köpenick. About 42 thousand business registrations were registered in 2015 for Berlin. This was 6.2 percent less than in previous year. With approximately 35 thousand business deregistrations were at previous year‘s level. 01.1 City Area Geographical location City centre - Berlin Town Hall - 52° 31‘ 12“ north latitude 13° 24‘ 36“ east longitude Local time 6 minutes 22 seconds behind Central European Time 12 o‘clock CET = 11:53:38 Berlin local time Length of border 234 km Largest expansion 45 km, east-west 38 km, north-south Oberhavel Barnim Reinickendorf Pankow Havelland Spandau Märkisch- Mitte Lichten- Marzahn- Oderland Hellersdorf Charlottenburg- Friedrichshain-berg Wilmersdorf Kreuzberg Tempelhof- Schöne- Steglitz-Zehlendorf berg Potsdam Neukölln Treptow-Köpenick Oder- Potsdam- Spree Mittelmark Dahme-Spreewald Teltow-Fläming 6 | 01.2 City Area City area (ha) 89,168 Land use % Bigger lakes ha Buildings and associated open spaces ............ 41.5 Großer Müggelsee .......................... 743.3 Industrial ................................. 0.6 Tegeler See ..................................... 384.3 Recreational ............................. 12.0 Langer See ..................................... 290.3 Traffic area ............................... 14.9 Großer Wannsee ............................. 276.4 Agricultural .............................. 4.3 Seddinsee ...................................... 258.0 Forest land ............................... 18.4 Zeuthener See ................................ 228.4 Lakes and waterways ��������������� 6.7 including in Köpenick .................. 131.0 Other uses ................................ 1.6 Jungfernsee ................................... 124.2 metre including in Zehlendorf ............... 31.4 Elevations above sea level Dämeritzsee ................................... 93.5 Müggelberge ........................... 115 including in Köpenick .................. 46.3 Teufelsberg .............................. 115 Niederneuendorfer See .................. 76.6 Ahrensfelder Berge .................. 112 including in Reinickendorf ���������� 55.5 Schäferberg .............................. 103 Kienberg .................................. 102 Rivers (within Berlin) Length in km Havelberg ................................. 97 Spree .............................................. 45.1 Stolper Berge ........................... 97 Havel .............................................. 27.1 Mülldeponie Wannsee .............. 92 Panke ............................................. 17.6 Prenzlauer Berg ........................ 91 Dahme ............................................ 16.4 Hahneberg ............................... 88 Wuhle ............................................ 15.7 Humboldthöhe