Country comparison: Germany / Ireland

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

General information

	Germany	Ireland
Region:	Western Europe	Northern Europe
Area:	357,580 km²	70,280 km²
National language:	German	English
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1991 AD	1921 AD
Capital:	Berlin	Dublin

Population

Details for Germany and Ireland

	Germany	Ireland
Population:	83,196,000	5,033,000
Inhabitants/km²:	232.7	71.6
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 80 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 47.8 years	Ø 37.8 years
Birth rate:	9.30 ‰	11.20 ‰
Death rate:	11.90 ‰	6.40 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.78 ‰	3.79 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Germany	Ireland
Political stability:	84	86
Civil rights:	95	93
Health:	96	82
Climate:	22	2
Cost of Living:	30	1
Popularity:	42	36

Economy

Details for Germany and Ireland

	Germany	Ireland
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	3.5 %	6.6 %
Inflation rate:	3.14 %	2.36 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	92.29 %	119.76 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	48.80 %	26.10 %
Average income:	51,660 US$	76,110 US$
Corruption index:	21 (good)	23 (good)

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	IRL: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	4,259,935 M US$	51.20 M US$	504,183 M US$	100.17 M US$
Gross national product:	4,298,325 M US$	51.66 M US$	383,084 M US$	76.11 M US$
Exported goods:	2,003,740 M US$	24.08 M US$	677,028 M US$	134.51 M US$
Imported goods:	1,775,164 M US$	21.34 M US$	477,544 M US$	94.88 M US$
Gross debt:	2,737,158 M US$	32.90 M US$	278,941 M US$	55.42 M US$
Budget deficit:	171,782 M US$	2.06 M US$	9,593 M US$	1.91 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Germany and Ireland

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	IRL: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	625,000 km	7.51 km	99,830 km	19.83 km
Railways:	33,422 km	0.40 km	4,301 km	0.85 km
Waterways:	7,467 km	0.09 km	956 km	0.19 km
Harbours:	599	0.0072	96	0.0191
Passenger airports:	37	0.0004	12	0.0024

Energy balance

Details for Germany and Ireland

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	IRL: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	536.50 bn kWh	6.45 m kWh	25.68 bn kWh	5.10 m kWh
Energy production:	612.80 bn kWh	7.37 m kWh	28.53 bn kWh	5.67 m kWh
Energy export:	78.86 bn kWh	947,881.22 kWh	1.58 bn kWh	314,513.83 kWh
Energy imports:	28.34 bn kWh	340,641.06 kWh	871.00 m kWh	173,052.15 kWh
CO2 emissions:	657.40 m t	7,901.82 t	35.75 m t	7,102.89 t

Telecommunication

Details for Germany and Ireland

	Germany	Ireland
International dialing:	+49	+353
Internet domain:	.de	.ie

	DEU total	DEU per 1000 inh.	IRL total	IRL per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	38,300,000	460	1,678,651	334
Mobile cellulars:	107,400,000	1291	5,234,027	1040
Internet server:	20,043,000	241	1,387,000	276
Internet users:	74,660,856	897	4,625,966	919
Broadband Internet:	36,880,564	443	1,576,973	313

Healthcare system

Details for Germany and Ireland

	Germany	Ireland
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	8.00	2.97
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.21	3.09
Diabetes:	10.4 %	3.2 %
HIV:	0.06 %	0.13 %
Tuberculosis:	0.05 ‰	0.05 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	74.0 %	6.0 %
Smokers:	22.0 %	20.8 %

Climate

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

	Germany	Ireland
Daytime temperatures:	13.9 °C	13.2 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	5.6 °C	6.8 °C
Water temperature:	9.9 °C	11.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	79 %	83 %
Rain days:	9.8	14.6
Sunshine hours per day:	4.7	3.8

Native languages

	Germany	Ireland
English:	n/a	98.4 %
German:	90.1 %	n/a
Russian:	3.6 %	n/a
Turkish:	2.6 %	n/a
Irish:	n/a	1.6 %
South Slavic languages:	1.4 %	n/a
Italian:	0.7 %	n/a
Greek:	0.4 %	n/a
Polish:	0.3 %	n/a
other:	0.9 %	0.0 %

Religions

	Germany	Ireland
Christianity:	58.5 %	90.1 %
Nondenominational:	31.0 %	5.7 %
Islam:	4.7 %	1.1 %
Buddhism:	0.3 %	n/a
Yazidism:	0.3 %	n/a
Hinduism:	0.1 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	5.1 %	3.1 %

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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