U.S. per capita trade deficit with Germany has outpaced that with China
Among the top five nations with which the U.S. runs a trade deficit, Germany has a $912 per capita trade advantage with the U.S. (total deficit divided by Germany’s total population), compared with China’s $266 per capita imbalance. This is largely because China’s large workforce churns out a high volume of low-value products for export to the U.S., while Germany’s smaller workforce largely produces high-value products, such as automobiles, to sell to Americans.
U.S per capita trade deficit with  | Germany has outpaced that with China  | U.S per capita trade deficit with  | 2009  | 2015  | 107  | 170  | $250  | 266 China  | 345  | --338 Vietnam  | --349  | 423  | 482 Mexico  | $500  | --542 Japan  | --$7750  | 912 Germany  | $1 000  | Note: 2009 figures not adjusted for inflation. dividing Goods trade  | only. Per capita trade deficit is calculated by dividing the U, S  | total goods trade deficit with another country dividing by that  | country's total population.  | Source: U S. Census (value of trade); International Monetary  | Fund (population).  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 