EU member state. Compliance scores reflect the regulatory advantages of EU single market membership and are not directly comparable to non-EU sourcing countries.
Europe
Germany
EU Compliance · Geopolitical Risk · Sourcing Attractiveness · Intra-EU Risk
Why these scores
EU Compliance, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Geopolitical Risk, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Attractiveness, by dimension
9 = most attractive · methodology & sources
Analyst scores, last reviewed June 2026; each dimension's sources and cadence are on its methodology page.
Data layers
Germany on the world stage
Total imports
$3.0tn
2023 annual
Total exports
$3.5tn
232 partners
#1 import source
China
5.5%
#1 export dest.
USA
5.0%
2023 annual, UN Comtrade (HS TOTAL, all partners). Line colour: coverage (exports/imports per partner).
Intra-EU trade: Germany
EU imports from
€873.8bn
intra-EU flow
EU exports to
€914.4bn
intra-EU flow
Intra-EU rank
#1
by import value
EU trade balance
balanced or surplus
coverage 1.05
2025 annual totals, Eurostat COMEXT.
Electricity & grid
National sources · carbon from Ember
Industrial
182.8
EUR/MWh
Consumer
370
EUR/MWh, all-in
Grid carbon
344
gCO₂e/kWh
Renewables
59%
of generation
Wholesale 89.3 EUR/MWh · market market
Power market
● Transmission bottleneckMarket model
Liberalised wholesale market (EPEX SPOT)
Direct PPA
Allowed
grid access: open
Reserve margin
–
Regulator
Independent
Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA)
Europe's largest power market faces a persistent north-south grid bottleneck: offshore and onshore wind concentrates in the north while industrial demand sits in the south, requiring billions in annual redispatch costs.…
Tracked infrastructure
187 gas plants
24.9 GW · 20 building
65 coal plants
29.7 GW
1,921 wind farms
43.8 GW · 9 building
184 solar farms
7.3 GW · 4 building
26 hydro plants
6.7 GW
16 steel plants
33,460 ktpa
10 coal mines
capacity n/a
Operating assets tracked by Global Energy Monitor (CC BY 4.0); counts are tracked facilities, not exhaustive totals. Energy overview →
Metal mining
Tagged mines
1,087
none in the merged layer
Acid-drainage prone
234
high water-risk ore class
Main commodities
Iron, Zinc, Other mine
Mine-water verifiability
Independent ambient only
EU member: EEA Waterbase ambient + Länder water portals;…
Water risk is inferred from the ore class, not site measurements. Global mines: full layer →
Intra-EU sourcing risk
EU · 1 = lowest riskMonitored ports (12)
Source: IMF PortWatch. Port count reflects monitoring coverage, not economic significance.
Demographics
UN World Population Prospects 2024 · medium variant
Median age
45.3
→ 47.9 by 2050
Fertility
1.45
below replacement
Working-age
62.9%
aged 15–64
Old-age dep.
36.9
→ 53.5 by 2050
Median age 1990–2050
Population 84.6M · peaks 2024
By 2050: -7% (78.3M)