Country comparison: China / Spain

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for China and Spain. For further information and explanations, we provide many details per country that go far beyond this comparison. For example, there are separate sub-pages for both countries on economy, climate, energy, refugees, inflation, population and much more.
In addition, we offer several international comparisons on individual topics, which are also linked on this page.

General information

	China	Spain
Region:	East Asia	Southern Europe
Area:	9,562,910 km²	505,935 km²
Official language:	Chinese	Spanish
Government form:	People's republic (communist one-party system)	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	1523 BC	1492 AD
Capital:	Beijing	Madrid

Population

Details for China and Spain

	China	Spain
Population:	1,412,360,000	47,327,000
Inhabitants/km²:	147.7	93.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 75 years	Ø 80 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 79 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 38.4 years	Ø 43.9 years
Birthrate:	8.52 ‰	7.10 ‰
Deathrate:	7.07 ‰	10.40 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.11 ‰	4.35 ‰

Quality of life

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

	China	Spain
Political stability:	69	68
Civil rights:	36	73
Health:	67	87
Climate:	54	74
Cost of Living:	38	43
Popularity:	73	68

Economy

Details for China and Spain

	China	Spain
Currency:	Renminbi yuan (1 CNY = 100 Fen)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	4.8 %	14.7 %
Inflation rate:	0.98 %	3.09 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	63.16 %	82.93 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	59.20 %	47.00 %
Average income:	11,890 US$	29,740 US$
Corruption index:	55 (bad)	39 (moderate)

	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	17,734,063 M US$	12.56 M US$	1,425,277 M US$	30.12 M US$
Gross national product:	16,789,239 M US$	11.89 M US$	1,407,504 M US$	29.74 M US$
Exported goods:	3,554,296 M US$	2.52 M US$	496,963 M US$	10.50 M US$
Imported goods:	3,091,488 M US$	2.19 M US$	475,429 M US$	10.05 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for China and Spain

	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	5,200,000 km	3.68 km	683,175 km	14.44 km
Railways:	68,141 km	0.05 km	15,718 km	0.33 km
Waterways:	110,000 km	0.08 km	1,000 km	0.02 km
Harbours:	6,662	0.0047	478	0.0101
Passenger airports:	214	0.0002	42	0.0009

Energy balance

Details for China and Spain

	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	5,564.00 bn kWh	3.94 m kWh	239.50 bn kWh	5.06 m kWh
Energy production:	5,883.00 bn kWh	4.17 m kWh	258.60 bn kWh	5.46 m kWh
Energy export:	18.91 bn kWh	13,388.94 kWh	14.18 bn kWh	299,619.54 kWh
Energy imports:	6.19 bn kWh	4,379.20 kWh	21.85 bn kWh	461,684.55 kWh
CO2 emissions:	10.71 bn t	7,581.08 t	239.98 m t	5,070.71 t

Telecommunication

Details for China and Spain

	China	Spain
International dialing:	+86	+34
Internet domain:	.cn	.es

	CHN total	CHN per 1000 inh.	ESP total	ESP per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	181,908,000	129	19,455,658	411
Mobile cellulars:	1,718,411,000	1217	55,647,705	1176
Internet server:	20,602,000	15	4,228,000	89
Internet users:	994,368,886	704	44,111,146	932
Broadband Internet:	483,549,500	342	16,188,502	342

Healthcare system

Details for China and Spain

	China	Spain
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	4.31	2.97
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.79	4.07
Diabetes:	9.2 %	6.9 %
Tuberculosis:	0.59 ‰	0.07 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	94.0 %	47.0 %
Smokers:	25.6 %	27.7 %

Climate

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

	China	Spain
Daytime temperatures:	19.0 °C	21.0 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	9.2 °C	11.1 °C
Water temperature:	17.9 °C	16.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	69 %	68 %
Rain days:	6.4	5.9
Sunshine hours per day:	5.9	7.0

Native languages

	China	Spain
Chinese:	92.0 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	74.0 %
Catalan:	n/a	17.0 %
Galecian:	n/a	7.0 %
Basque:	n/a	2.0 %
Hakka:	1.8 %	n/a
Zhuang:	1.4 %	n/a
Mantšu:	0.9 %	n/a
Hui:	0.8 %	n/a
Uighur:	0.6 %	n/a
Yi:	0.6 %	n/a
Tujia:	0.5 %	n/a
Mongolian:	0.4 %	n/a
Tibetan:	0.4 %	n/a
Dong:	0.2 %	n/a
Puyi:	0.2 %	n/a
other:	0.2 %	0.0 %

Religions

	China	Spain
Christianity:	2.3 %	94.0 %
Nondenominational:	58.5 %	n/a
Local chinese beliefs:	17.5 %	n/a
Buddhism:	6.2 %	n/a
Taoism:	4.4 %	n/a
Islam:	1.7 %	n/a
Hinduism:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	9.3 %	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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