Country comparison: Germany / Italy

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

General information

	Germany	Italy
Region:	Western Europe	Southern Europe
Area:	357,580 km²	301,340 km²
National language:	German	Italian
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1991 AD	1861 AD
Capital:	Berlin	Rome

Population

Details for Germany and Italy

	Germany	Italy
Population:	83,196,000	59,110,000
Inhabitants/km²:	232.7	196.2
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 80 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 47.8 years	Ø 46.5 years
Birth rate:	9.30 ‰	6.80 ‰
Death rate:	11.90 ‰	12.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.78 ‰	3.02 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Germany	Italy
Political stability:	84	69
Civil rights:	95	66
Health:	96	87
Climate:	22	57
Cost of Living:	45	31
Popularity:	42	59

Economy

Details for Germany and Italy

	Germany	Italy
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	3.6 %	9.5 %
Inflation rate:	3.14 %	1.87 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	93.32 %	87.15 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	48.80 %	59.10 %
Average income:	51,660 US$	35,990 US$
Corruption index:	21 (good)	44 (moderate)

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	ITA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	4,259,935 M US$	51.20 M US$	2,107,703 M US$	35.66 M US$
Gross national product:	4,298,325 M US$	51.66 M US$	2,127,119 M US$	35.99 M US$
Exported goods:	2,003,740 M US$	24.08 M US$	687,948 M US$	11.64 M US$
Imported goods:	1,775,164 M US$	21.34 M US$	637,934 M US$	10.79 M US$
Gross debt:	2,737,158 M US$	32.90 M US$	3,167,165 M US$	53.58 M US$
Budget deficit:	171,782 M US$	2.06 M US$	151,772 M US$	2.57 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Germany and Italy

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	ITA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	625,000 km	7.51 km	487,700 km	8.25 km
Railways:	33,422 km	0.40 km	16,779 km	0.28 km
Waterways:	7,467 km	0.09 km	2,400 km	0.04 km
Harbours:	599	0.0072	1,296	0.0219
Passenger airports:	37	0.0004	43	0.0007

Energy balance

Details for Germany and Italy

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	ITA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	536.50 bn kWh	6.45 m kWh	293.50 bn kWh	4.97 m kWh
Energy production:	612.80 bn kWh	7.37 m kWh	275.30 bn kWh	4.66 m kWh
Energy export:	78.86 bn kWh	947,881.22 kWh	6.16 bn kWh	104,128.48 kWh
Energy imports:	28.34 bn kWh	340,641.06 kWh	43.18 bn kWh	730,506.56 kWh
CO2 emissions:	657.40 m t	7,901.82 t	317.24 m t	5,366.97 t

Telecommunication

Details for Germany and Italy

	Germany	Italy
International dialing:	+49	+39
Internet domain:	.de	.it

	DEU total	DEU per 1000 inh.	ITA total	ITA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	38,600,000	464	19,994,902	338
Mobile cellulars:	106,400,000	1279	78,114,933	1322
Internet server:	20,043,000	241	25,662,000	434
Internet users:	76,066,681	914	44,250,873	749
Broadband Internet:	36,880,564	443	18,686,502	316

Healthcare system

Details for Germany and Italy

	Germany	Italy
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	8.00	3.14
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.21	4.09
Diabetes:	10.4 %	5.0 %
HIV:	0.06 %	0.04 %
Tuberculosis:	0.05 ‰	0.05 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	74.0 %	95.0 %
Smokers:	22.0 %	23.1 %

Climate

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

	Germany	Italy
Daytime temperatures:	13.9 °C	17.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	5.6 °C	10.0 °C
Water temperature:	9.9 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	79 %	70 %
Rain days:	9.8	6.1
Sunshine hours per day:	4.7	6.2

Native languages

	Germany	Italy
Italian:	0.7 %	94.1 %
German:	90.1 %	0.5 %
Russian:	3.6 %	n/a
Sardinian:	n/a	2.7 %
Turkish:	2.6 %	n/a
South Slavic languages:	1.4 %	n/a
Friuli:	n/a	1.2 %
French:	n/a	0.5 %
Greek:	0.4 %	n/a
Polish:	0.3 %	n/a
Albanian:	n/a	0.2 %
Slovenian:	n/a	0.2 %
Romany:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	0.9 %	0.4 %

Religions

	Germany	Italy
Christianity:	58.5 %	91.6 %
Nondenominational:	31.0 %	5.8 %
Islam:	4.7 %	1.9 %
Buddhism:	0.3 %	0.3 %
Yazidism:	0.3 %	n/a
Hinduism:	0.1 %	0.2 %
Jewry:	0.1 %	0.1 %
Sikhism:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	5.1 %	0.0 %

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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