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Surprises emerge in German census data  Germany's population is
smaller than people expected. Fewer foreigners live in Germany
than many thought, which has implications for pensions and the
labor market.  The stereotype goes that Germans have to measure
and record everything with perfect exactitude. So it comes as a
bit of a shock to some that a number as essential as the
country's population turned out to be much lower than previously
assumed.  With 80.2 million people, Germany remains the largest
EU country by a significant margin. However, compared with
previously held estimates, that number represents a sudden drop
of 1.5 million residents. In a sense, a metropolis the size of
Munich now vanished overnight.  The new information comes by way
of the 2011 census, for which one third of the total population
was polled personally or in writing. The comprehensive survey
cost over 700 million euros ($908