Country comparison: United Arab Emirates / Germany

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for the United Arab Emirates and Germany. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	United Arab Emirates	Germany
Region:	Western Asia	Western Europe
Area:	83,600 km²	357,580 km²
National language:	Arabic	German
Government form:	Federation of autonomous monarchies	Federal parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1971 AD	1991 AD
Capital:	Abu Dhabi	Berlin

Population

Details for the United Arab Emirates and Germany

	United Arab Emirates	Germany
Population:	9,365,000	83,196,000
Inhabitants/km²:	112.0	232.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 77 years	Ø 79 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 81 years	Ø 83 years
Average age:	Ø 38.4 years	Ø 47.8 years
Birth rate:	10.62 ‰	9.30 ‰
Death rate:	1.77 ‰	11.90 ‰
Migrationrate:	-3.45 ‰	1.78 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	United Arab Emirates	Germany
Political stability:	85	84
Civil rights:	64	95
Health:	66	96
Climate:	62	22
Cost of Living:	68	45
Popularity:	28	42

Economy

	United Arab Emirates	Germany
Currency:	Arabic dirham (1 AED = 100 Fils)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	3.4 %	3.5 %
Inflation rate:	-2.08 %	3.14 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	72.35 %	92.29 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	15.90 %	48.80 %
Average income:	41,770 US$	51,660 US$
Corruption index:	33 (moderate)	21 (good)

	ARE: total	per 1000 inh.	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	415,022 M US$	44.32 M US$	4,259,935 M US$	51.20 M US$
Gross national product:	387,961 M US$	41.43 M US$	4,298,325 M US$	51.66 M US$
Exported goods:	308,500 M US$	32.94 M US$	2,003,740 M US$	24.08 M US$
Imported goods:	229,200 M US$	24.47 M US$	1,775,164 M US$	21.34 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for the United Arab Emirates and Germany

	ARE: total	per 1000 inh.	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	4,080 km	0.44 km	625,000 km	7.51 km
Railways:	261 km	0.03 km	33,422 km	0.40 km
Harbours:	623	0.0665	599	0.0072
Passenger airports:	8	0.0009	37	0.0004

Energy balance

Details for the United Arab Emirates and Germany

	ARE: total	per 1000 inh.	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	113.20 bn kWh	12.09 m kWh	536.50 bn kWh	6.45 m kWh
Energy production:	121.80 bn kWh	13.01 m kWh	612.80 bn kWh	7.37 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	78.86 bn kWh	947,881.22 kWh
Energy imports:	1.14 bn kWh	121,834.74 kWh	28.34 bn kWh	340,641.06 kWh
CO2 emissions:	188.86 m t	20,166.27 t	657.40 m t	7,901.82 t

Telecommunication

Details for the United Arab Emirates and Germany

	United Arab Emirates	Germany
International dialing:	+971	+49
Internet domain:	.ae	.de

	ARE total	ARE per 1000 inh.	DEU total	DEU per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	2,242,982	240	38,600,000	464
Mobile cellulars:	18,237,084	1947	106,400,000	1279
Internet server:	337,804	36	20,043,000	241
Internet users:	9,365,145	1000	76,066,681	914
Broadband Internet:	3,573,055	382	36,880,564	443

Healthcare system

Details for the United Arab Emirates and Germany

	United Arab Emirates	Germany
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	1.38	8.00
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.39	4.21
Diabetes:	16.3 %	10.4 %
HIV:	0.22 %	0.06 %
Tuberculosis:	0.01 ‰	0.05 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	77.0 %	74.0 %
Smokers:	18.2 %	22.0 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: United Arab Emirates and Germany

	United Arab Emirates	Germany
Daytime temperatures:	34.3 °C	13.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	23.0 °C	5.6 °C
Water temperature:	27.1 °C	9.9 °C
Rel. humidity:	61 %	79 %
Rain days:	1.0	9.8
Sunshine hours per day:	8.4	4.7

Native languages

	United Arab Emirates	Germany
German:	n/a	90.1 %
Arabic:	42.0 %	n/a
Russian:	n/a	3.6 %
Turkish:	n/a	2.6 %
South Slavic languages:	n/a	1.4 %
Italian:	n/a	0.7 %
Greek:	n/a	0.4 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
other:	58.0 %	0.9 %

Religions

	United Arab Emirates	Germany
Islam:	76.0 %	4.7 %
Christianity:	9.0 %	58.5 %
Nondenominational:	n/a	31.0 %
Hinduism:	3.6 %	0.1 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.3 %
Yazidism:	n/a	0.3 %
Jewry:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	11.4 %	5.1 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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