Life expectancy of females at birth in West Germany rose from 71 years in 1954 to 80 years in 2000; the expectancy for boys rose from 66 to 75. Expectancy in the eastern zone was about three years less.
By the later half of 2015 more than twice as many refugees of the [[Syrian war]] entered Germany (484,000<ref>http://qz.com/567469/t/309634/ </ref>) than the size of Germany's standing army (184,000 <ref>Member_states_of_NATO#Military_personnel</ref>).
The projected population in 2050 is 76 million, down from the present 82 million. There will be more deaths than births, and that is largely offset by a net inflow of immigrants from 2000 to 2050, predicted to be about 240,000 per year.