Country comparison: Eritrea / Spain

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

General information

	Eritrea	Spain
Region:	Eastern Africa	Southern Europe
Area:	117,600 km²	505,935 km²
National language:	Tigrinya	Spanish
Government form:	Presidential republic	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	1993 AD	1492 AD
Capital:	Asmara	Madrid

Population

Details for Eritrea and Spain

	Eritrea	Spain
Population:	3,620,000	47,416,000
Inhabitants/km²:	30.8	93.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 65 years	Ø 80 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 69 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 20.3 years	Ø 43.9 years
Birth rate:	28.71 ‰	7.10 ‰
Death rate:	6.42 ‰	10.40 ‰
Migrationrate:	-10.11 ‰	4.35 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Eritrea	Spain
Political stability:	24	68
Civil rights:	5	73
Health:	28	87
Climate:	87	74
Cost of Living:	76	43
Popularity:	0	68

Economy

	Eritrea	Spain
Currency:	nakfa (1 ERN = 100 Cents)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	8.1 %	14.7 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	50.59 %	82.93 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	83.70 %	47.00 %
Average income:	600 US$	29,690 US$
Corruption index:	78 (very bad)	39 (moderate)

	ERI: total	per 1000 inh.	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,065 M US$	0.57 M US$	1,427,381 M US$	30.10 M US$
Gross national product:	1,941 M US$	0.54 M US$	1,407,936 M US$	29.69 M US$
Exported goods:	98 M US$	0.03 M US$	497,868 M US$	10.50 M US$
Imported goods:	500 M US$	0.14 M US$	476,678 M US$	10.05 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Eritrea and Spain

	ERI: total	per 1000 inh.	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	16,000 km	4.42 km	683,175 km	14.41 km
Railways:	306 km	0.08 km	15,718 km	0.33 km
Harbours:	9	0.0025	478	0.0101
Passenger airports:	3	0.0008	42	0.0009

Energy balance

Details for Eritrea and Spain

	ERI: total	per 1000 inh.	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	353.90 m kWh	97,754.01 kWh	239.50 bn kWh	5.05 m kWh
Energy production:	415.90 m kWh	114,879.60 kWh	258.60 bn kWh	5.45 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	14.18 bn kWh	299,056.75 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	21.85 bn kWh	460,817.34 kWh
CO2 emissions:	880,000.00 t	243.07 t	239.98 m t	5,061.19 t

Telecommunication

Details for Eritrea and Spain

	Eritrea	Spain
International dialing:	+291	+34
Internet domain:	.er	.es

	ERI total	ERI per 1000 inh.	ESP total	ESP per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	66,000	18	19,455,658	410
Mobile cellulars:	1,801,000	497	55,647,705	1174
Internet server:	701	0	4,228,000	89
Internet users:	45,774	13	44,111,146	930
Broadband Internet:	5,000	1	16,392,286	346

Healthcare system

Details for Eritrea and Spain

	Eritrea	Spain
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.70	2.97
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.05	4.07
Diabetes:	5.1 %	6.9 %
HIV:	0.11 %	0.17 %
Tuberculosis:	0.74 ‰	0.08 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	91.0 %	53.0 %
Smokers:	7.5 %	27.7 %

Climate

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

	Eritrea	Spain
Daytime temperatures:	29.2 °C	21.1 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	17.2 °C	11.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	58 %	68 %
Rain days:	4.4	5.9
Sunshine hours per day:	8.0	7.0

Native languages

	Eritrea	Spain
Spanish:	n/a	74.0 %
Tigrinya:	49.1 %	n/a
Tigre:	31.7 %	n/a
Catalan:	n/a	17.0 %
Galician:	n/a	7.0 %
Afar:	4.3 %	n/a
Hadareb:	3.8 %	n/a
Saho:	3.0 %	n/a
Bilin:	3.0 %	n/a
Basque:	n/a	2.0 %
other:	5.1 %	0.0 %

Religions

	Eritrea	Spain
Christianity:	50.0 %	94.0 %
Islam:	50.0 %	n/a
other:	0.0 %	6.0 %

Data inventory and updates

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