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Total | Female | Male | |
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Inhabitants: | 577,026 | 291,756 (50.6 %) | 285,270 (49.4 %) |
As of: Dec 31, 2023 |
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Inhabitants/km²: | 0.0 | |
As of: Dec 31, 2023 |
€ per inhabitant (City of Bremen) |
National comparison (Germany=100 %) |
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Gross domestic product 2022: | 57,549 | 125 % |
€ per employed person (City of Bremen) |
National comparison (Germany=100 %) |
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Gross value added 2022 | ||
- Production sector: | 124,868 | 129 % |
- Service sector: | 68,899 | 97 % |
€ per inhabitant (City of Bremen) |
State comparison (State=100 %) |
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Net revenue from local business tax 2023: | 622.55 | 106 % |
Municipal share of income tax 2023: | 353.03 | 104 % |
Total | Female | Male | |
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Employed persons: | 299,039 | 130,063 (43.5 %) | 168,976 (56.5 %) |
Change over previous year: | 443 (0.1 %) | ||
As of: Jun 30, 2024 |
Employed persons acc. to economic sectors: |
Other educational facilities¹: | Education and research Bremen has a complex scientific network and focuses on practical application orientation in its research. With its university and many research institutions, Bremen has a highly complex scientific network. Practical application orientation is the principle of all Bremen's research contributions. The international format of Bremen's research is characterized by the successful transfer of knowledge gained into concrete applications. Research institutions of the Free Hanseatic City Institutions closely associated with the university, such as the Bremen Institute for Industrial Engineering and Applied Work Sciences (BIBA), the Institute for Materials Technology (IWT), the Center for European Legal Policy (ZERP), the Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) and the Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine (BIPS), ensure that the knowledge gained is quickly put into practice. Top addresses in their respective fields, with others not lagging behind. Bremen's leading position in the fields of environmental, marine and geosciences is established by the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and the Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, among others, while the Fraunhofer Institute for Materials Research and the renowned Fiber Institute set standards in the research of future-oriented materials. In the fields of aerospace and robotics, the efficiency of Bremen as a science location is also demonstrated by the DFKI Institute; German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and an institute of the DLR; German Aerospace Center. The BITZ is also committed to success orientation that is tangible. In the immediate vicinity of the university, the Bremen Innovation and Technology Center has made a name for itself as a launch pad for young companies. Here, ideas and technologies that have grown out of the university laboratories are put into practice. More than 40 high-tech companies have established themselves here in recent years and have now created more than 2,000 new jobs requiring particularly high qualifications. Bremen's most remote outpost is located at the South Pole. In the cold of the eternal ice, people are freezing for science. Specifically for the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany's central large-scale research facility for polar and marine research based in Bremerhaven. As part of a worldwide network of observation systems, the institute researches global change, the effects of the hole in the ozone layer, greenhouse effects and the shifting of the continents. |
Hospitals: | 10 |
Leisure facilities: | City of culture and attractions Around 40 million day tourists and 1.3 million overnight visitors experience the Hanseatic City of Bremen year after year. Because the Town Hall and Roland statue are on the UNESCO World Heritage List, because the city has a host of cultural offers and leisure facilities. And because Bremen is the Short Way City that links all these different experiences and attractions with one another. Bremen is a city of exquisite delights. Fine cuisine in a good atmosphere. You'll find ideal conditions here for conducting negotiations in an appropriate setting. The hotels in Bremen also provide excellent quality and range right up to world-class level. You can receive and entertain your business partners here in a conducive atmosphere. One can live very well in Bremen. The city has lifestyle! |
Cultural facilities: | culture Theater and Opera House (Theater am Goetheplatz) 6 Theater Concert hall "Die Glocke" Musical theater Weser Stadium 12 Museums Science Center "Universum" Music school University Library Trade fairs & congresses 7 exhibition halls Congress Centrum Bremen AWD Dome Bremen (Stadthalle) World Trade Center Bremen Hotels 78 hotels, with approx. 7,880 beds of which 3 ***** star hotels 13 **** star hotels 19 *** star hotels |
Sport facilities: | Sport & Leisure 427 Sports clubs Tennis clubs Yacht clubs 7 indoor swimming pools 4 outdoor pools Golf clubs Soccer league club Horse racing track Paradice ice rink |
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Further info on living space: | Housing subsidies![]() |
Comment on the transport infrastructure: | Logistics – Growth in the business location of Bremen The prominent location on the River Weser, the immediate proximity to the North Sea, the key position in the middle of Europe – large quantities of goods are generated and to a large extent commissioned or further processed in the high-performance container terminals in Bremerhaven. Accordingly, the property turnover is showing impressive growth rates. The local logistics specialists are profiting from the large goods flows and the logistics networks in various different ways. Transport-geographical location Bremerhaven enjoys a favourable geographical position for transport where the River Weser flows into the North Sea and offers good preconditions for transport and traffic: - Situation by the open sea with direct access for ships without time-consuming channel navigation - Good transport links via the A 27 motorway, the inland waterways, the rail network, and the Luneort regional airport - Information highway (ATM technology) - Container terminal The high sailing frequencies of container services enables worldwide distribution. Bremen's ports Bremen has been living from its ports for centuries and does so today as well, being Germany's port city number 2. The ports today – in the sober language of economic data, they still make up a third of the aggregate social product generated in Bremen. Almost a third of the more than 30,000 jobs in Bremen depend directly or indirectly on what goes on in the ports. The merits of Bremen's ports can be seen in two unbeatable advantages. With the sea 60 kilometres away, the city of Bremen ports are the transhipment centres in Germany that lie the deepest inland with the correspondingly shortest connections to the hinterland. At the same time, Bremerhaven also recommends itself to the world's largest ships as a port of call thanks to its coastal location on waters deep enough for sea-going vessels. In the Fischereihafen (Fisheries Harbour), a complete distribution system with railway, RoRo facility, Truck Service Centre, returnable container pool and fish handling centre guarantees smooth and efficient logistics. Qualified providers of logistics services provide customised complete solutions, and optimised logistical process chains are coordinated with an efficient electronic data interchange (EDI) system. Bremen Airport - One of the most modern airports in Germany - Flights several times a day to all the European hubs of world air travel - 2 park-houses with around 4,500 spaces - 2.49 million passengers recorded in 2008 - Service infrastructure with car rental companies, airport transfer services, bank, post office, hairdresser, restaurant businesses, shopping facilities, hotel, travel agencies and operators, VIP rooms, government offices, and much more. |
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Link to promotion info: | Funding programmes in Bremen![]() |
Phone: | +49 421 9600 10 |
Fax: | +49 421 9600 810 |
Homepage: | http://www.wfb-bremen.de![]() |
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Sources: | ¹ | Own Survey (Last update on Nov 30, 2015) |
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The statistical data have been updated to include the most recent available figures on Feb 28, 2025 |