Country comparison Germany : Ireland

General information

	Germany	Ireland
Region:	Western Europe	Northern Europe
Area:	357,580 km²	70,280 km²
Official language:	German	English
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1955 AD	1921 AD
Capital:	Berlin	Dublin

Population

	Germany	Ireland
Population:	83,161,000	4,986,000
Inhabitants/km²:	232.6	70.9
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
Birthrate:	9.30 ‰	11.20 ‰
Deathrate:	11.90 ‰	6.40 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.50 ‰	3.83 ‰

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:	81	84
Civil rights:	94	90
Health:	96	82
Climate:	21	2
Cost of Living:	43	35
Popularity:	42	42

Economy

	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%)	92.14 %	120.64 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	48.80 %	26.10 %
Average income:	47,520 US$	65,750 US$
Corruption index:	80 (good)	74 (good)

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	IRL: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	3,846,414 M US$	46.25 M US$	425,889 M US$	85.42 M US$
Gross national product:	3,951,937 M US$	47.52 M US$	327,793 M US$	65.75 M US$
Exported goods:	1,673,706 M US$	20.13 M US$	559,371 M US$	112.20 M US$
Imported goods:	1,451,647 M US$	17.46 M US$	462,206 M US$	92.71 M US$
Gross debt:	2,314,330 M €	27.83 M €	235,851 M €	47.31 M €
Budget deficit:	145,246 M €	1.75 M €	8,111 M €	1.63 M €

Infrastructure

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	IRL: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	625,000 km	7.52 km	99,830 km	20.02 km
Railways:	33,422 km	0.40 km	4,301 km	0.86 km
Waterways:	7,467 km	0.09 km	956 km	0.19 km
Harbours:	599	0.007	96	0.019
Airports:	539	0.006	40	0.008

Energy balance

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	IRL: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	536.50 bn kWh	6.45 m kWh	25.68 bn kWh	5.15 m kWh
Energy production:	612.80 bn kWh	7.37 m kWh	28.53 bn kWh	5.72 m kWh
Energy export:	78.86 bn kWh	948,282.52 kWh	1.58 bn kWh	317,509.73 kWh
Energy imports:	28.34 bn kWh	340,785.27 kWh	871.00 m kWh	174,700.55 kWh
CO2 emissions:	709.54 m t	8,532.14 t	37.11 m t	7,443.33 t

Telecommunication

	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	461	1,678,651	337
Mobile cellulars:	107,500,000	1293	5,234,027	1050
Internet server:	20,043,000	241	1,387,000	278
Internet users:	74,760,764	899	4,595,141	922
Broadband Internet:	36,215,303	435	1,516,473	304

Healthcare system

	Germany	Ireland
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	8.00	2.97
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.21	3.09
Diabetes:	10.4 %	3.2 %
HIV:	0.06 %	0.15 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.1 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	69.0 %	4.0 %
Smokers:	22.5 %	21.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Germany and Ireland

	Germany	Ireland
Daytime temperatures:	13.7 °C	13.2 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	5.5 °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
Jewry:	0.1 %	n/a
Hinduism:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	5.1 %	3.1 %