Country comparison: Germany / Poland

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

General information

	Germany	Poland
Region:	Western Europe	Eastern Europe
Area:	357,580 km²	312,680 km²
National language:	German	Polish
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1991 AD	1918 AD
Capital:	Berlin	Warsaw

Population

Details for Germany and Poland

	Germany	Poland
Population:	83,196,000	37,747,000
Inhabitants/km²:	232.7	120.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 72 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 47.8 years	Ø 41.9 years
Birth rate:	9.60 ‰	8.80 ‰
Death rate:	12.30 ‰	13.80 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.78 ‰	-0.34 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Germany	Poland
Political stability:	83	64
Civil rights:	95	65
Health:	96	77
Climate:	21	27
Cost of Living:	45	57
Popularity:	42	51

Economy

Details for Germany and Poland

	Germany	Poland
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	zloty (1 PLN =100 Groszy)
Unemployment rate:	3.0 %	2.6 %
Inflation rate:	6.87 %	14.43 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	83.56 %	45.36 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	48.80 %	40.80 %
Average income:	51,660 US$	16,850 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):	69.64 %	53.79 %
Government debt (% of GDP):	46.27 %	43.40 %
Corruption index:	21 (good)	45 (moderate)

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	POL: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	4,259,935 M US$	51.20 M US$	679,445 M US$	18.00 M US$
Gross national product:	4,298,325 M US$	51.66 M US$	636,064 M US$	16.85 M US$
Exported goods:	2,003,740 M US$	24.08 M US$	392,715 M US$	10.40 M US$
Imported goods:	1,775,164 M US$	21.34 M US$	369,760 M US$	9.80 M US$
Budget deficit:	106,695 M US$	1.28 M US$	25,872 M US$	0.69 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Germany and Poland

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	POL: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	625,000 km	7.51 km	420,000 km	11.13 km
Railways:	33,422 km	0.40 km	18,538 km	0.49 km
Waterways:	7,467 km	0.09 km	3,997 km	0.11 km
Harbours:	599	0.0072	143	0.0038
Passenger airports:	37	0.0004	15	0.0004

Energy balance

Details for Germany and Poland

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	POL: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	2.175 tn kWh	26.14 m kWh	414.08 bn kWh	10.97 m kWh
Energy consumption:	500.35 bn kWh	6.01 m kWh	149.20 bn kWh	3.95 m kWh
Energy production:	545.20 bn kWh	6.55 m kWh	145.93 bn kWh	3.87 m kWh
Energy export:	66.93 bn kWh	804,497.06 kWh	7.36 bn kWh	194,902.27 kWh
Energy imports:	48.05 bn kWh	577,515.20 kWh	20.62 bn kWh	546,372.75 kWh
CO2 emissions:	657.40 m t	7,901.83 t	295.13 m t	7,818.67 t

Telecommunication

Details for Germany and Poland

	Germany	Poland
International dialing:	+49	+48
Internet domain:	.de	.pl

	DEU total	DEU per 1000 inh.	POL total	POL per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	38,600,000	464	5,308,497	141
Mobile cellulars:	106,400,000	1279	50,588,785	1340
Internet server:	20,043,000	241	13,265,000	351
Internet users:	76,066,681	914	32,226,572	854
Broadband Internet:	36,880,564	443	8,679,490	230

Healthcare system

Details for Germany and Poland

	Germany	Poland
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	8.00	6.54
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.21	2.40
Diabetes:	10.4 %	6.1 %
Tuberculosis:	0.05 ‰	0.10 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	74.0 %	54.0 %
Smokers:	22.0 %	24.0 %

Climate

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

	Germany	Poland
Daytime temperatures:	13.9 °C	13.5 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	5.6 °C	4.9 °C
Rel. humidity:	79 %	76 %
Rain days:	9.8	8.6
Sunshine hours per day:	4.7	5.1

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
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Native languages

	Germany	Poland
Polish:	0.3 %	97.6 %
German:	90.1 %	1.3 %
Russian:	3.6 %	n/a
Turkish:	2.6 %	n/a
South Slavic languages:	1.4 %	n/a
Italian:	0.7 %	n/a
Ukrainian:	n/a	0.6 %
Belarusian:	n/a	0.5 %
Greek:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	0.9 %	0.0 %

Religions

	Germany	Poland
Christianity:	58.5 %	88.7 %
Nondenominational:	31.0 %	n/a
Islam:	4.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.3 %	n/a
Yazidism:	0.3 %	n/a
Hinduism:	0.1 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	5.1 %	11.3 %

Data inventory and updates

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