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Germany has one of the world's highest levels of education, technological development, and economic productivity.

Since the end of World War II, the number of students entering universities has more than tripled, and the trade and technical schools are among the world's best.

With a per capita income of about $ 36, 850 Purchasing power parity ( in 2009 ), Germany is a broadly middle class society.

However there has been a strong increase in the children living in poverty in Germany.

While in 1965 one in 75 children was on the welfare rolls in 2007 one in 6 was.

Those children live in relative poverty, but not in absolute poverty however.

Germans also are very mobile ; millions travel abroad each year.

The social welfare system provides for universal health care, unemployment compensation, child benefits and other social programmes.

Due to Germany's aging population and struggling economy, the welfare system came under a lot of strain in the 1990s.

This led the government to adopt a wide-ranging programme of belt-tightening reforms, Agenda 2010, including the labour market reforms known as Hartz I-IV.