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:	83,241,000	4,995,000
Inhabitants/km²:	232.8	71.1
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:	9.40 ‰	12.10 ‰
Deathrate:	11.30 ‰	6.30 ‰
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:	84	85
Civil rights:	94	90
Health:	96	82
Climate:	20	2
Cost of Living:	42	35
Popularity:	42	36

Economy

	Germany	Ireland
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	4.3 %	5.9 %
Inflation rate:	0.51 %	-0.33 %
Cost of Living:	100.00 %	125.73 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	48.80 %	26.10 %
Average income:	47,060 US$	64,150 US$
Corruption index:	80 (good)	72 (good)

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	IRL: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	3,846,414 M US$	46.21 M US$	425,889 M US$	85.27 M US$
Gross national product:	3,916,918 M US$	47.06 M US$	320,422 M US$	64.15 M US$
Exported goods:	1,671,655 M US$	20.08 M US$	502,313 M US$	100.57 M US$
Imported goods:	1,452,555 M US$	17.45 M US$	452,979 M US$	90.69 M US$
Gross debt:	2,057,166 M €	24.71 M €	204,198 M €	40.88 M €
Budget surplus:	52,470 M €	0.63 M €	1,850 M €	0.37 M €

Infrastructure

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	IRL: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	625,000 km	7.51 km	99,830 km	19.99 km
Railways:	33,590 km	0.40 km	4,301 km	0.86 km
Waterways:	7,467 km	0.09 km	956 km	0.19 km
Harbours:	607	0.007	95	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	5.14 m kWh
Energy production:	612.80 bn kWh	7.36 m kWh	28.53 bn kWh	5.71 m kWh
Energy export:	78.86 bn kWh	947,375.09 kWh	1.58 bn kWh	316,934.43 kWh
Energy imports:	28.34 bn kWh	340,459.17 kWh	871.00 m kWh	174,384.01 kWh
CO2 emissions:	709.54 m t	8,523.97 t	37.11 m t	7,429.84 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	460	1,678,651	336
Mobile cellulars:	107,500,000	1291	5,234,027	1048
Internet server:	20,043,000	241	1,387,000	278
Internet users:	74,760,764	898	4,595,141	920
Broadband Internet:	36,040,739	433	1,516,252	304

Healthcare system

	Germany	Ireland
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	8.30	2.80
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:	71.0 %	39.0 %
Smokers:	28.0 %	23.6 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Germany and Ireland

	Germany	Ireland
Daytime temperatures:	13.7 °C	13.1 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	5.5 °C	6.8 °C
Water temperature:	9.9 °C	11.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	79 %	83 %
Rain days:	9.9	14.7
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 %