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 n.Chr.	1955 n.Chr.
Capital:	Sofia	Berlin

Population

	Bulgaria	Germany
Population:	6,927,000	83,241,000
Inhabitants/km²:	62.4	232.8
Life expectancy males:	Ø 72 years	Ø 79 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 79 years	Ø 83 years
Average age:	Ø 43.0 years	Ø 45.5 years
Birthrate:	8.80 ‰	9.40 ‰
Deathrate:	15.50 ‰	11.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.29 ‰	1.50 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Bulgaria	Germany
Political stability:	71	84
Civil rights:	53	95
Health:	84	96
Climate:	49	21
Cost of Living:	79	27
Popularity:	41	42

Economy

	Bulgaria	Germany
Currency:	Bulgarian Lev (1 BGN = 100 Stotinki)	Euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	5.7 %	4.3 %
Inflation rate:	1.67 %	0.51 %
Cost of Living:	51.51 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	28.30 %	48.80 %
Average income:	9,540 US$	46,990 US$
Corruption index:	44 (bad)	80 (good)

	BGR: total	per 1000 inh.	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	69,105 M US$	9.98 M US$	3,806,060 M US$	45.72 M US$
Gross national product:	66,085 M US$	9.54 M US$	3,911,487 M US$	46.99 M US$
Exported goods:	39,270 M US$	5.67 M US$	1,671,655 M US$	20.08 M US$
Imported goods:	38,072 M US$	5.50 M US$	1,452,555 M US$	17.45 M US$
Gross debt:	12,380 M €	1.79 M €	2,057,166 M €	24.71 M €
Budget surplus:	1,178 M €	0.17 M €	52,470 M €	0.63 M €

Infrastructure

	BGR: total	per 1000 inh.	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	19,512 km	2.82 km	625,000 km	7.51 km
Railways:	5,114 km	0.74 km	33,590 km	0.40 km
Waterways:	470 km	0.07 km	7,467 km	0.09 km
Harbours:	83	0.012	609	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	4.67 m kWh	536.50 bn kWh	6.45 m kWh
Energy production:	42.29 bn kWh	6.10 m kWh	612.80 bn kWh	7.36 m kWh
Energy export:	9.19 bn kWh	1.33 m kWh	78.86 bn kWh	947,375.09 kWh
Energy imports:	4.57 bn kWh	659,421.12 kWh	28.34 bn kWh	340,459.17 kWh
CO2 emissions:	41.13 m t	5,937.39 t	709.54 m t	8,523.97 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:	972,255	140	40,400,000	485
Mobile phones:	8,134,580	1174	107,200,000	1288
Internet server:	976,277	141	20,043,000	241
Internet users:	4,739,820	684	73,268,677	880

Healthcare system

	Bulgaria	Germany
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	6.80	8.30
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:	86.0 %	71.0 %
Smokers:	38.9 %	28.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Bulgaria and Germany

	Bulgaria	Germany
Daytime temperatures:	18.0 °C	13.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.1 °C	5.6 °C
Water temperature:	13.4 °C	9.9 °C
Rel. humidity:	74 %	79 %
Rain days:	6.6	9.9
Sunshine hours per day:	6.2	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 %
Hinduism:	n/a	0.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	0.3 %	5.1 %