Country comparison: Germany / Sweden

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

General information

	Germany	Sweden
Region:	Western Europe	Northern Europe
Area:	357,580 km²	447,430 km²
National language:	German	Swedish
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	1991 AD	836 AD
Capital:	Berlin	Stockholm

Population

Details for Germany and Sweden

	Germany	Sweden
Population:	83,196,000	10,416,000
Inhabitants/km²:	232.7	23.3
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 81 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 47.8 years	Ø 41.1 years
Birth rate:	9.30 ‰	10.90 ‰
Death rate:	11.90 ‰	9.50 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.78 ‰	3.60 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Germany	Sweden
Political stability:	84	89
Civil rights:	95	100
Health:	96	85
Climate:	22	20
Cost of Living:	45	41
Popularity:	42	37

Economy

Details for Germany and Sweden

	Germany	Sweden
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Swedish krone (1 SEK =100 Öre)
Unemployment rate:	3.5 %	8.7 %
Inflation rate:	3.14 %	2.16 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	92.29 %	109.31 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	48.80 %	49.10 %
Average income:	51,660 US$	59,540 US$
Corruption index:	20 (good)	15 (good)

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	4,259,935 M US$	51.20 M US$	635,664 M US$	61.03 M US$
Gross national product:	4,298,325 M US$	51.66 M US$	620,154 M US$	59.54 M US$
Exported goods:	2,003,740 M US$	24.08 M US$	290,793 M US$	27.92 M US$
Imported goods:	1,775,164 M US$	21.34 M US$	263,269 M US$	25.28 M US$
Gross debt:	2,737,158 M US$	32.90 M US$	227,749 M US$	21.87 M US$
Budget deficit:	171,782 M US$	2.06 M US$	1,501 M US$	0.14 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Germany and Sweden

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	625,000 km	7.51 km	573,134 km	55.03 km
Railways:	33,422 km	0.40 km	9,701 km	0.93 km
Waterways:	7,467 km	0.09 km	2,052 km	0.20 km
Harbours:	599	0.0072	370	0.0355
Passenger airports:	37	0.0004	40	0.0038

Energy balance

Details for Germany and Sweden

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	536.50 bn kWh	6.45 m kWh	133.50 bn kWh	12.82 m kWh
Energy production:	612.80 bn kWh	7.37 m kWh	152.90 bn kWh	14.68 m kWh
Energy export:	78.86 bn kWh	947,881.22 kWh	26.02 bn kWh	2.50 m kWh
Energy imports:	28.34 bn kWh	340,641.06 kWh	14.29 bn kWh	1.37 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	657.40 m t	7,901.82 t	35.00 m t	3,360.28 t

Telecommunication

Details for Germany and Sweden

	Germany	Sweden
International dialing:	+49	+46
Internet domain:	.de	.se

	DEU total	DEU per 1000 inh.	SWE total	SWE per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	38,300,000	460	1,478,610	142
Mobile cellulars:	107,400,000	1291	12,791,840	1228
Internet server:	20,043,000	241	5,978,000	574
Internet users:	74,660,856	897	9,847,048	945
Broadband Internet:	36,880,564	443	4,175,604	401

Healthcare system

Details for Germany and Sweden

	Germany	Sweden
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	8.00	2.14
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.21	5.40
Diabetes:	10.4 %	4.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.05 ‰	0.04 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	74.0 %	72.0 %
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 Sweden

	Germany	Sweden
Daytime temperatures:	13.9 °C	9.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	5.6 °C	2.1 °C
Water temperature:	9.9 °C	8.4 °C
Rel. humidity:	79 %	80 %
Rain days:	9.8	9.2
Sunshine hours per day:	4.7	5.0

Native languages

	Germany	Sweden
German:	90.1 %	n/a
Swedish:	n/a	89.5 %
Russian:	3.6 %	n/a
Turkish:	2.6 %	n/a
Finnish:	n/a	2.4 %
South Slavic languages:	1.4 %	n/a
North Slavic languages:	n/a	1.3 %
Arabic:	n/a	0.8 %
Italian:	0.7 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	0.6 %
Norwegian:	n/a	0.5 %
Greek:	0.4 %	n/a
Polish:	0.3 %	n/a
other:	0.9 %	4.9 %

Religions

	Germany	Sweden
Christianity:	58.5 %	87.0 %
Nondenominational:	31.0 %	n/a
Islam:	4.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.3 %	n/a
Yazidism:	0.3 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.1 %	0.2 %
Hinduism:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	5.1 %	12.8 %

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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