A GUIDE TO THE GERMAN GAMES INDUSTRY
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• With France, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Belgium,<br />
the Czech Republic, Denmark, Luxembourg and the<br />
Netherlands, Germany has a total of nine neighboring<br />
countries – more than any other European nation.<br />
• The supply in Germany is characterized by an efficient<br />
communication and energy network.<br />
3. HIGH PRODUCTIVITY<br />
The international competitiveness of the German<br />
economy is characterized by outstanding quality<br />
and a high performance level – despite decreasing<br />
unit wage costs. Hence, Germany boasts an excellent<br />
price-performance ratio within Europe.<br />
4. GLOBALITY<br />
Germany as a business and investment location benefits<br />
greatly from its traditionally close economic relations<br />
with Central and Eastern Europe, especially with<br />
the markets in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary.<br />
This long-standing East-West integration ensures<br />
a correspondingly good economic expertise and lets<br />
Germany play a leading role as a platform for the<br />
growing domestic markets in the European region.<br />
5. OUTSTANDING PROFESSIONALS<br />
"Made in Germany" is considered a seal of quality<br />
for exceptionally high product and service quality<br />
throughout the world. Germany has a broad range<br />
Gross domestic product and population:<br />
Germany compared with the rest of Europe<br />
GDP<br />
(in Bn EUR)<br />
GDP-Share<br />
(EU-28)<br />
Population<br />
(in M)<br />
Germany 3.026 21% 82<br />
France 2.181 15% 67<br />
United Kingdom 2.576 18% 65<br />
Italy 1.636 11% 61<br />
Spain 1.081 7% 46<br />
Netherlands 677 5% 17<br />
Sweden 444 3% 10<br />
Poland 428 3% 38<br />
Czech Republic 167 1% 11<br />
Hungary 109 1% 10<br />
Note: Reference year 2015.<br />
Sources: Eurostat (2016)/ World Bank (2016)<br />
of excellently trained and highly qualified professionals,<br />
setting international standards. The basis for<br />
this is Germany's excellent education system; 81% of<br />
the German population have completed some sort of<br />
vocational training or have a high-school diploma,<br />
which is well above the OECD average.<br />
Thanks to its high density of banking<br />
institutions and being an important stock<br />
exchange location, Frankfurt/Main ranks on<br />
top of Germany's finance industry, making<br />
Frankfurt one of the most important international<br />
financial centers in the world.<br />
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