And in all the states of former East Germany the figure is less than 5%.
Yet outside the former East Germany, nostalgia for the past plays no part in politics.
In former East Germany, by contrast, nine out of ten women of working age had a full-time job.
Even without saddling the former East Germany with silly labour policies, the costs of monetary union would have been huge.
Tourism is struggling in a part of the former East Germany whose economy was shrinking even before the latest downturn.
The northern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerian region, which sits along the coast of the Baltic Sea, was a part of former East Germany.
Knut was hand-reared by zoo keepers after being rejected by his mother, a former circus bear from the former East Germany.
After qualifying as a mechanical engineer in the former East Germany, Mr Odinga had a short stint as a lecturer at the University of Nairobi.
In the former East Germany, far from the country's football powerbase, one lowly team's fortunes are being transformed by Austrian soft drink company Red Bull's takeover.
To see how daunting a turnaround would be, look no further than the former East Germany, which is still struggling, despite a massive stimulus by Germany's more prosperous western half.
Instead, Kohl's government mistakenly imposed an absolutely unaffordable welfare- state structure, including too-heavy taxes, on the former East Germany, making impossible the kind of resurgence West Germany experienced after Erhard's reforms.
Indeed, the population in the state of Thuringia, which was part of former East Germany, is forecast to plunge more than 40% to 1.3 million residents by 2060, according to government statistics.
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Noakes, a sports medicine researcher at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, draws on what little study there has been in performance-enhancing drugs, including some just-revealed data compiled by the former East Germany.
It is no exaggeration to say that the freedom and economic opportunity that is now enjoyed by the citizens of former East Germany is the direct result of forces unleashed in the society by the sudden opportunity for free emigration.
She's a former physicist from East Germany and a firm believer in free-market capitalism.
The latest, launched on September 3rd, features Katarina Witt, East Germany's former Olympic ice-skating champion and Henry Maske, a boxing world champion.
Merkel, the first former East German to lead the reunified country, praised Germany's strides toward accepting multiculturalism, despite tense relations with the Muslim community across Europe.
The social exclusion of such a large, permanent minority is potentially a bigger problem for Germany even than that of integrating 16m former East Germans.
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