Bavaria Facts and Figures
These figures are dated from 2000
Area:
70548 km2 (approx. size of the US-state Missouri; area of Germany: 357022 km2;
thus largest German district)
Inhabitants: 12.2 million (Germany: 82.1 million,
Bavaria ranking 2nd after North Rhine-Westphalia 18 mio.)
Employed: 48.3 %
(Germany 44.6 %)
Self-employed: 11.6 % of work force (Germany 10 %)
Unemployed:
5.5 % of work force (Germany 9.6 %).
Gross domestic product: 688 million DM
(in comparison: Bavaria surpassed 9 out of 15 EU member states)
Gross domestic
product per inhabitant: almost 29.000 Euro
Economic performance per inhabitant:
56.560 DM (in comparison: this value clearly exceeds the German and European average;
Germany-wide only Hesse is higher due to Frankfurt)
Export: 175.2 million
DM
more than 1,000 companies from abroad