Radios: 47.1 million (1998 est.)
Television broadcast stations: 9,513 (including repeaters)
Televisions: 51.4 million (1998 est.)
Transportation
Railways:
total: 46,300 km including 18,866 km electrified and 14,768 km
double- or multiple-tracked (1996)
note: since privatization in 1994, Deutsche Bahn AG (DBAG) no longer
publishes details of the tracks it owns; in addition to the DBAG
system there are 102 privately owned railway companies which own an
approximate 3,000 km to 4,000 km of the total tracks
Highways:
total: 656,074 km
paved: 650,169 km (including 11,309 km of expressways)
unpaved: 5,905 km all-weather (1997 est.)
Waterways: 7,467 km (1997); major rivers include the Rhine and
Elbe; Kiel Canal is an important connection between the Baltic Sea
and North Sea
Pipelines: crude oil 2,460 km (1997)
Ports and harbors: Berlin, Bonn, Brake, Bremen, Bremerhaven,
Cologne, Dresden, Duisburg, Emden, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Kiel, Lubeck,
Magdeburg, Mannheim, Rostock, Stuttgart
Merchant marine:
total: 594 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 7,699,596
GRT/9,629,163 DWT
ships by type: cargo 227, chemical tanker 15, combination bulk 1,
container 306, liquefied gas tanker 5, multifunction large-load
carrier 5, oil tanker 7, passenger 3, railcar carrier 2,
refrigerated cargo 2, roll-on/roll-off cargo 14, short-sea passenger
7 (1998 est.)