Country comparison Bulgaria : Germany

General information

	Bulgaria	Germany
Region:	Eastern Europe	Western Europe
Area:	111,000 km²	357,580 km²
Official language:	Bulgarian	German
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1908 AD	1955 AD
Capital:	Sofia	Berlin

Population

	Bulgaria	Germany
Population:	6,899,000	83,129,000
Inhabitants/km²:	62.2	232.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 70 years	Ø 79 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 83 years
Average age:	Ø 43.7 years	Ø 47.8 years
Birthrate:	8.50 ‰	9.30 ‰
Deathrate:	18.00 ‰	11.90 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.29 ‰	1.78 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Bulgaria	Germany
Political stability:	68	82
Civil rights:	51	94
Health:	81	96
Climate:	50	21
Cost of Living:	62	44
Popularity:	40	42

Economy

	Bulgaria	Germany
Currency:	Bulgarian Lev (1 BGN = 100 Stotinki)	Euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	5.4 %	3.5 %
Inflation rate:	3.30 %	3.14 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	47.52 %	92.29 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	28.30 %	48.80 %
Average income:	10,720 US$	51,040 US$
Corruption index:	58 (bad)	20 (good)

	BGR: total	per 1000 inh.	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	80,271 M US$	11.63 M US$	4,223,116 M US$	50.80 M US$
Gross national product:	73,940 M US$	10.72 M US$	4,242,859 M US$	51.04 M US$
Exported goods:	51,457 M US$	7.46 M US$	2,003,462 M US$	24.10 M US$
Imported goods:	50,003 M US$	7.25 M US$	1,774,553 M US$	21.35 M US$
Gross debt:	20,123 M US$	2.92 M US$	2,737,158 M US$	32.93 M US$
Budget deficit:	3,285 M US$	0.48 M US$	171,782 M US$	2.07 M US$

Infrastructure

	BGR: total	per 1000 inh.	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	19,512 km	2.83 km	625,000 km	7.52 km
Railways:	4,030 km	0.58 km	33,422 km	0.40 km
Waterways:	470 km	0.07 km	7,467 km	0.09 km
Harbours:	79	0.011	599	0.007
Airports:	68	0.010	539	0.006

Energy balance

	BGR: total	per 1000 inh.	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	32.34 bn kWh	4.69 m kWh	536.50 bn kWh	6.45 m kWh
Energy production:	42.29 bn kWh	6.13 m kWh	612.80 bn kWh	7.37 m kWh
Energy export:	9.19 bn kWh	1.33 m kWh	78.86 bn kWh	948,642.83 kWh
Energy imports:	4.57 bn kWh	662,112.95 kWh	28.34 bn kWh	340,914.76 kWh
CO2 emissions:	39.14 m t	5,673.18 t	657.40 m t	7,908.16 t

Telecommunication

	Bulgaria	Germany
International dialing:	+359	+49
Internet domain:	.bg	.de

	BGR total	BGR per 1000 inh.	DEU total	DEU per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	872,757	127	38,300,000	461
Mobile cellulars:	7,945,739	1152	107,400,000	1292
Internet server:	976,277	142	20,043,000	241
Internet users:	4,840,426	702	74,660,856	898
Broadband Internet:	2,115,053	307	36,215,303	436

Healthcare system

	Bulgaria	Germany
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	7.45	8.00
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.99	4.21
Diabetes:	6.0 %	10.4 %
HIV:	0.08 %	0.06 %
Tuberculosis:	0.2 %	0.1 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	82.0 %	69.0 %
Smokers:	39.0 %	22.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Bulgaria and Germany

	Bulgaria	Germany
Daytime temperatures:	18.1 °C	13.6 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.6 °C	5.5 °C
Water temperature:	13.3 °C	9.9 °C
Rel. humidity:	74 %	79 %
Rain days:	6.3	9.8
Sunshine hours per day:	6.3	4.7

Native languages

	Bulgaria	Germany
German:	n/a	90.1 %
Bulgarian:	76.8 %	n/a
Turkish:	8.2 %	2.6 %
Romany:	3.8 %	n/a
Russian:	n/a	3.6 %
Macedonian:	2.6 %	n/a
South Slavic languages:	n/a	1.4 %
Italian:	n/a	0.7 %
Greek:	n/a	0.4 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
other:	8.6 %	0.9 %

Religions

	Bulgaria	Germany
Christianity:	77.9 %	58.5 %
Nondenominational:	11.8 %	31.0 %
Islam:	10.0 %	4.7 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.3 %
Yazidism:	n/a	0.3 %
Jewry:	n/a	0.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	0.3 %	5.1 %