Country comparison: Belgium / Spain

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

General information

	Belgium	Spain
Region:	Western Europe	Southern Europe
Area:	30,530 km²	505,935 km²
National language:	Dutch	Spanish
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic (under constitutional monarchy)	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	1830 AD	1492 AD
Capital:	Brussels	Madrid

Population

Details for Belgium and Spain

	Belgium	Spain
Population:	11,593,000	47,416,000
Inhabitants/km²:	379.7	93.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 80 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 41.6 years	Ø 43.9 years
Birth rate:	9.90 ‰	7.10 ‰
Death rate:	11.00 ‰	10.40 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.38 ‰	4.35 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Belgium	Spain
Political stability:	76	67
Civil rights:	88	73
Health:	89	87
Climate:	20	74
Cost of Living:	32	43
Popularity:	40	68

Economy

Details for Belgium and Spain

	Belgium	Spain
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	6.4 %	14.7 %
Inflation rate:	2.44 %	3.09 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.97 %	82.93 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	55.40 %	47.00 %
Average income:	50,490 US$	29,690 US$
Corruption index:	27 (good)	40 (moderate)

	BEL: total	per 1000 inh.	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	594,104 M US$	51.25 M US$	1,427,381 M US$	30.10 M US$
Gross national product:	585,375 M US$	50.49 M US$	1,407,936 M US$	29.69 M US$
Exported goods:	515,625 M US$	44.48 M US$	497,868 M US$	10.50 M US$
Imported goods:	509,018 M US$	43.91 M US$	476,678 M US$	10.05 M US$
Gross debt:	648,951 M US$	55.98 M US$	1,687,991 M US$	35.60 M US$
Budget deficit:	33,075 M US$	2.85 M US$	97,950 M US$	2.07 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Belgium and Spain

	BEL: total	per 1000 inh.	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	118,414 km	10.21 km	683,175 km	14.41 km
Railways:	3,592 km	0.31 km	15,718 km	0.33 km
Waterways:	2,043 km	0.18 km	1,000 km	0.02 km
Harbours:	201	0.0173	478	0.0101
Passenger airports:	5	0.0004	42	0.0009

Energy balance

Details for Belgium and Spain

	BEL: total	per 1000 inh.	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	82.16 bn kWh	7.09 m kWh	239.50 bn kWh	5.05 m kWh
Energy production:	79.83 bn kWh	6.89 m kWh	258.60 bn kWh	5.45 m kWh
Energy export:	8.47 bn kWh	730,185.03 kWh	14.18 bn kWh	299,056.75 kWh
Energy imports:	14.65 bn kWh	1.26 m kWh	21.85 bn kWh	460,817.34 kWh
CO2 emissions:	93.01 m t	8,022.98 t	239.98 m t	5,061.19 t

Telecommunication

Details for Belgium and Spain

	Belgium	Spain
International dialing:	+32	+34
Internet domain:	.be	.es

	BEL total	BEL per 1000 inh.	ESP total	ESP per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	3,293,420	284	19,075,931	402
Mobile cellulars:	11,740,118	1013	56,805,348	1198
Internet server:	5,192,000	448	4,228,000	89
Internet users:	10,756,947	928	44,522,214	939
Broadband Internet:	4,920,679	424	16,392,286	346

Healthcare system

Details for Belgium and Spain

	Belgium	Spain
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.58	2.97
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.32	4.07
Diabetes:	4.6 %	6.9 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.08 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	67.0 %	53.0 %
Smokers:	23.4 %	27.7 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Belgium and Spain

	Belgium	Spain
Daytime temperatures:	14.9 °C	21.1 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.3 °C	11.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	82 %	68 %
Rain days:	10.6	5.9
Sunshine hours per day:	4.7	7.0

Native languages

	Belgium	Spain
Spanish:	n/a	74.0 %
Dutch:	54.2 %	n/a
French:	41.1 %	n/a
Catalan:	n/a	17.0 %
Galician:	n/a	7.0 %
Italian:	2.1 %	n/a
Basque:	n/a	2.0 %
German:	0.7 %	n/a
other:	1.9 %	0.0 %

Religions

	Belgium	Spain
Christianity:	75.0 %	94.0 %
Jewry:	0.3 %	n/a
other:	24.7 %	6.0 %

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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