Country comparison: Spain / Greece

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

General information

	Spain	Greece
Region:	Southern Europe	Southern Europe
Area:	505,935 km²	131,960 km²
National language:	Spanish	Greek
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1492 AD	1830 AD
Capital:	Madrid	Athens

Population

Details for Spain and Greece

	Spain	Greece
Population:	47,416,000	10,641,000
Inhabitants/km²:	93.7	80.6
Life expectancy males:	Ø 80 years	Ø 79 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 43.9 years	Ø 45.3 years
Birth rate:	7.10 ‰	7.90 ‰
Death rate:	10.40 ‰	12.20 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.35 ‰	1.00 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Spain	Greece
Political stability:	68	62
Civil rights:	73	61
Health:	87	89
Climate:	74	70
Cost of Living:	43	44
Popularity:	68	45

Economy

Details for Spain and Greece

	Spain	Greece
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	14.7 %	14.8 %
Inflation rate:	3.09 %	1.22 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	82.93 %	74.67 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.00 %	51.90 %
Average income:	29,690 US$	20,000 US$
Corruption index:	39 (moderate)	51 (bad)

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	GRC: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,427,381 M US$	30.10 M US$	214,874 M US$	20.19 M US$
Gross national product:	1,407,936 M US$	29.69 M US$	212,807 M US$	20.00 M US$
Exported goods:	497,868 M US$	10.50 M US$	87,521 M US$	8.22 M US$
Imported goods:	476,678 M US$	10.05 M US$	103,532 M US$	9.73 M US$
Gross debt:	1,687,991 M US$	35.60 M US$	417,953 M US$	39.28 M US$
Budget deficit:	97,950 M US$	2.07 M US$	16,072 M US$	1.51 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Spain and Greece

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	GRC: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	683,175 km	14.41 km	117,000 km	10.99 km
Railways:	15,718 km	0.33 km	2,279 km	0.21 km
Waterways:	1,000 km	0.02 km	6 km	0.00 km
Harbours:	478	0.0101	1,236	0.1162
Passenger airports:	42	0.0009	38	0.0036

Energy balance

Details for Spain and Greece

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	GRC: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	239.50 bn kWh	5.05 m kWh	56.89 bn kWh	5.35 m kWh
Energy production:	258.60 bn kWh	5.45 m kWh	52.05 bn kWh	4.89 m kWh
Energy export:	14.18 bn kWh	299,056.75 kWh	1.04 bn kWh	97,451.22 kWh
Energy imports:	21.85 bn kWh	460,817.34 kWh	9.83 bn kWh	924,048.10 kWh
CO2 emissions:	239.98 m t	5,061.19 t	60.00 m t	5,638.45 t

Telecommunication

Details for Spain and Greece

	Spain	Greece
International dialing:	+34	+30
Internet domain:	.es	.gr

	ESP total	ESP per 1000 inh.	GRC total	GRC per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	19,455,658	410	5,028,332	473
Mobile cellulars:	55,647,705	1174	11,412,995	1073
Internet server:	4,228,000	89	3,201,000	301
Internet users:	44,111,146	930	8,330,717	783
Broadband Internet:	16,392,286	346	4,435,090	417

Healthcare system

Details for Spain and Greece

	Spain	Greece
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.97	4.20
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.07	4.59
Diabetes:	6.9 %	4.7 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.14 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.04 ‰
Smokers:	27.7 %	33.5 %

Climate

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

	Spain	Greece
Daytime temperatures:	21.1 °C	22.4 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	11.2 °C	12.6 °C
Water temperature:	16.7 °C	18.8 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	66 %
Rain days:	5.9	5.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.0	7.4

Native languages

	Spain	Greece
Greek:	n/a	98.5 %
Spanish:	74.0 %	n/a
Catalan:	17.0 %	n/a
Galician:	7.0 %	n/a
Basque:	2.0 %	n/a
Turkish:	n/a	0.9 %
other:	0.0 %	0.6 %

Religions

	Spain	Greece
Christianity:	94.0 %	98.0 %
Islam:	n/a	1.3 %
other:	6.0 %	0.7 %

Data inventory and updates

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