Germany

Across all 12 NATO member countries, a median of 61% approved of the alliance last spring. Many Americans say NATO does too little to solve global problems.

American women are waiting longer to have children than in the past, but they are still starting their families sooner than women in many other developed nations.

The differences over immigration policy between Germany’s Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union are also evident among backers of the parties.

Nationalist and anti-immigrant attitudes in Western Europe have been an issue in a number of recent national elections around the region. But Western Europeans vary by country when it comes to having positive or negative views about immigrants and religious minorities.

This sortable table provides data for levels of internet use, smartphone ownership and social media usage from 2013 to 2017 by country.

As people in advanced economies reach the upper bounds of internet penetration, the digital divide continues to narrow between wealthy and developing countries.

Take a look at six charts on how Germans and Americans see one another and how German attitudes toward the United States have shifted in the Trump era.

The United States runs a far larger merchandise trade deficit with China than with any other nation. But when the trade deficit is measured in other ways, the U.S. actually has a larger imbalance with countries outside of China.

Americans and Germans also have different views on which element of their countries' relationship is most important – economy, defense or shared democratic values.