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August 19, 2021

Voter demographics – is Germany a gerontocracy?

Region:
Germany
Chart in Focus
Topic:
Economic and european policy, Germany's super election year 2021
Analyst:
Barbara Boettcher, Ursula Walther
For the German federal elections in September, about 60m voters are called to cast their ballot. Despite more than half of voters being 50 years and above, it would still be too far-fetched to say that Germany has become a so-called gerontocracy, where the interests of the older dominate the political process. Moreover, the pandemic could curb participation among all age groups. [more]
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December 16, 2020

Returns from residential real estate: Red and orange predominate

Region:
Germany
Chart in Focus
Topic:
Real estate
Analyst:
Jochen Moebert
The COVID-19 crisis has intensified the lack of profitable low-risk investments, which is why numerous investors probably regard the German residential market as an attractive alternative to the bond markets. Rental returns have been trending downwards for ten years now, and the development looks set to continue until the spread between rental returns and low-risk bond yields has narrowed significantly further. [more]
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July 14, 2020

Youth unemployment pre and post COVID-19

Region:
International
Chart in Focus
Topic:
Macroeconomics
Analyst:
Jochen Moebert
The unemployment rates of teenagers and young adults were already attracting attention during the financial and euro crisis. The corona crisis has again led to massive distortions on the labour markets in many countries. However, the initial development of the official youth unemployment rate was fairly diverse internationally. In some countries the unemployment rate has even fallen sharply. [more]
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January 27, 2020

Prosperous countries – high CO₂-emissions

Region:
International
Chart in Focus
Topic:
Sectors and resources
Analyst:
Eric Heymann
A country’s prosperity is still closely linked to its energy consumption. As 80% of the global energy consumed is based on fossil fuels, high prosperity (measured as GDP per capita) tends to imply high per-capita CO₂ emissions. France is the G20 country which is closest to the goal of being quite prosperous on the one hand and keeping its per-capita carbon emissions relatively low on the other. Nevertheless, France is far from being a climate-neutral economy (which is the political goal). [more]
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January 21, 2020

The ECB’s Strategic Review in 2020 may (slightly) change the inflation target

Region:
Europe
Chart in Focus
Topic:
Macroeconomics
Analyst:
Jochen Moebert, Nils Burkhard
The global map shows the inflation targets of developed and emerging markets. In emerging economies central banks tend to have higher inflation targets than the central banks in their developed counterparts. The difference generally arises from their stronger inflation rates partly due to lower productivity in tradeable goods production in emerging markets. This key feature is likely to persist as the catch-up process of many emerging markets will continue for some time. [more]
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November 1, 2019

German energy imports decline – but only slightly

Region:
Germany
Chart in Focus
Topic:
Sectors and resources, Sustainability
Analyst:
Eric Heymann, Josef Auer
Between 2000 and 2018, German net energy imports declined by almost 12%. Oil and nuclear energy imports were down considerably as oil heating becomes less popular and the German government has decided to give up nuclear energy. In contrast, net natural gas imports are trending upwards. Coal imports did not start to decline until 2016 and were still considerably higher in 2018 than in 2000 because domestic coal mining was abandoned. Germany’s dependence on energy commodity imports has not declined much over time. In 2018, almost 71% of the necessary energy commodities were imported (2000: 72.6%). [more]
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September 30, 2019

Distance to local bank branch does matter for Germans

Region:
Germany
Chart in Focus
Topic:
Banking and financial markets
Analyst:
Orçun Kaya
The future of bank branches has been under scrutiny for some time due to the increased usage of online and mobile banking. On top of the general trend, regional differences in demand for branch services may have important implications for the future of branch networks. Structurally fewer client visits in certain regions may exacerbate the pressure to close branches. Within Germany, the number of bank branches has declined sharply from around 40,000 in 2007 to some 28,000 in 2018. [more]
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