Germany's Economy 

It is the fifth largest in the world and it is the strongest one in Europe. It produces machinery, vehicles, chemicals and household equipment. It s working force is highly skilled. Some of the challenges it faces are the low fertility rates and declining immigration which they are trying to restructure. Germany is trying to close all of their nuclear plants by 2022. Germany hopes to replace this nuclear power with renewable energies, the reason why they want to close all of the nuclear plants is due to what happened in Fukushima.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$3.227 trillion (2013 est.) country comparison to the world:  5 $3.211 trillion (2012 est.) $3.182 trillion (2011 est.) note: data are in 2013 US dollars taken from the CIA world factbook