General Information

Official Name	Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)
Capital	Berlin
Area	357,020 Sq Km (137,846 Sq Mi)
Population 2003	82,398,326
Location	North Central Europe, on the Great North European Plain.

Geography	Bound by Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, the Baltic Sea to the northeast, Denmark to the north, the North Sea to the northwest, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France to the west, Switzerland to the south and Austria to the south and southeast.
Density  (1991)	222 persons per sq km (574 persons per sq mi)
Urban-Rural (1990)	85.3% urban 14.7% rural
Sex Distribution (1989)	48.1% male 51.9% female

Life Expectancy at Birth (1988)	70.9 years male 77.2 years female
Age Breakdown (1992)	15% under 15 21% 15 to 29 22% 30 to 44 20% 45 to 59 15% 60 to 74 7% 75 and over
Birth Rate  (1991)	10.4 per 1,000
Death Rate (1991)	11.4 per 1,000
Increase Rate (1991)	-1.0 per 1,000
Infant Mortality Rate (1992)	6.8 per 1,000 live births

 

 

Sleep Habits

 

Sleep/wake schedule

The German population goes to sleep around 10:50PM and wakes up around 6:20 AM.

They sleep on average 7 hours 8 minutes. 

On week ends or days off, they sleep about 85 minutes more than on week days.

The bedtime is varying for more than one on three individuals while the wake up time is varying for one on six individuals

 

Naps

About one on five individuals are regularly napping.

Nearly 4% of the population is napping at least two times in the same day.

 

Insomnia

• One on six individuals has difficulty falling asleep

• One on four individuals has a disrupted sleep

• One on seven individuals wake up too early in the morning

• One on seven individuals feels sleep is not refreshing

One individual on ten complained about the quality or quantity of his or her sleep.

This does not mean that all these individuals are insomniacs: only one on 16 individuals has a diagnosis of insomnia.

 

 

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