Country comparison: Germany / United Kingdom

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

General information

	Germany	United Kingdom
Region:	Western Europe	Northern Europe
Area:	357,580 km²	243,610 km²
National language:	German	English
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	1991 AD	1066 AD
Capital:	Berlin	London

Population

Details for Germany and the United Kingdom

	Germany	United Kingdom
Population:	83,196,000	67,327,000
Inhabitants/km²:	232.7	276.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 79 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 84 years	Ø 82 years
Average age:	Ø 47.8 years	Ø 40.6 years
Birth rate:	9.30 ‰	10.10 ‰
Death rate:	11.90 ‰	10.10 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.78 ‰	3.23 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Germany	United Kingdom
Political stability:	83	74
Civil rights:	95	90
Health:	97	77
Climate:	21	6
Cost of Living:	45	35
Popularity:	42	43

Economy

Details for Germany and the United Kingdom

	Germany	United Kingdom
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Sterling pound (1 GBP =100 Pence)
Unemployment rate:	3.0 %	3.6 %
Inflation rate:	6.87 %	7.92 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	83.56 %	95.54 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	48.80 %	30.60 %
Average income:	51,660 US$	44,480 US$
Corruption index:	21 (good)	27 (good)

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	GBR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	4,259,935 M US$	51.20 M US$	3,131,378 M US$	46.51 M US$
Gross national product:	4,298,325 M US$	51.66 M US$	2,994,732 M US$	44.48 M US$
Exported goods:	2,003,740 M US$	24.08 M US$	899,171 M US$	13.36 M US$
Imported goods:	1,775,164 M US$	21.34 M US$	937,734 M US$	13.93 M US$
Gross debt:	2,698,924 M US$	32.44 M US$	2,340,498 M US$	34.76 M US$
Budget deficit:	106,695 M US$	1.28 M US$	61,440 M US$	0.91 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Germany and the United Kingdom

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	GBR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	625,000 km	7.51 km	394,428 km	5.86 km
Railways:	33,422 km	0.40 km	16,837 km	0.25 km
Waterways:	7,467 km	0.09 km	3,200 km	0.05 km
Harbours:	599	0.0072	1,249	0.0186
Passenger airports:	37	0.0004	59	0.0009

Energy balance

Details for Germany and the United Kingdom

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	GBR: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	2.175 tn kWh	26.14 m kWh	991.22 bn kWh	14.72 m kWh
Energy consumption:	500.35 bn kWh	6.01 m kWh	289.69 bn kWh	4.30 m kWh
Energy production:	545.20 bn kWh	6.55 m kWh	299.52 bn kWh	4.45 m kWh
Energy export:	66.93 bn kWh	804,497.06 kWh	4.48 bn kWh	66,556.19 kWh
Energy imports:	48.05 bn kWh	577,515.20 kWh	22.39 bn kWh	332,573.01 kWh
CO2 emissions:	657.40 m t	7,901.83 t	348.92 m t	5,182.53 t

Telecommunication

Details for Germany and the United Kingdom

	Germany	United Kingdom
International dialing:	+49	+44
Internet domain:	.de	.uk

	DEU total	DEU per 1000 inh.	GBR total	GBR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	38,600,000	464	32,192,000	478
Mobile cellulars:	106,400,000	1279	79,773,000	1185
Internet server:	20,043,000	241	8,107,000	120
Internet users:	76,066,681	914	63,837,842	948
Broadband Internet:	36,880,564	443	27,738,724	412

Healthcare system

Details for Germany and the United Kingdom

	Germany	United Kingdom
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	8.00	2.46
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.21	2.81
Diabetes:	10.4 %	3.9 %
Tuberculosis:	0.05 ‰	0.06 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	74.0 %	78.0 %
Smokers:	22.0 %	15.4 %

Climate

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

	Germany	United Kingdom
Daytime temperatures:	13.9 °C	12.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	5.6 °C	7.0 °C
Water temperature:	9.9 °C	10.1 °C
Rel. humidity:	79 %	85 %
Rain days:	9.8	13.0
Sunshine hours per day:	4.7	3.8

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
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Native languages

	Germany	United Kingdom
English:	n/a	97.3 %
German:	90.1 %	n/a
Russian:	3.6 %	n/a
Turkish:	2.6 %	n/a
South Slavic languages:	1.4 %	n/a
Kymri:	n/a	0.9 %
Italian:	0.7 %	n/a
Greek:	0.4 %	n/a
Polish:	0.3 %	n/a
Gaelic:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	0.9 %	1.7 %

Religions

	Germany	United Kingdom
State religion:	none	England: Church of England (Anglican), Scotland: Church of Scotland (Calvinist)
Christianity:	58.5 %	67.0 %
Nondenominational:	31.0 %	25.7 %
Islam:	4.7 %	4.4 %
Hinduism:	0.1 %	1.3 %
Jewry:	0.1 %	0.4 %
Sikhism:	n/a	0.4 %
Buddhism:	0.3 %	n/a
Yazidism:	0.3 %	n/a
other:	5.1 %	0.8 %

Data inventory and updates

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