Country comparison Spain : Ireland

General information

	Spain	Ireland
Region:	Southern Europe	Northern Europe
Area:	505,935 km²	70,280 km²
Official language:	Spanish	English
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1492 AD	1921 AD
Capital:	Madrid	Dublin

Population

	Spain	Ireland
Population:	47,352,000	4,995,000
Inhabitants/km²:	93.6	71.1
Life expectancy males:	Ø 80 years	Ø 80 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 43.9 years	Ø 37.8 years
Birthrate:	7.60 ‰	12.10 ‰
Deathrate:	8.80 ‰	6.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.39 ‰	3.83 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Spain	Ireland
Political stability:	63	84
Civil rights:	73	90
Health:	87	82
Climate:	74	2
Cost of Living:	41	35
Popularity:	60	42

Economy

	Spain	Ireland
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	14.7 %	6.6 %
Inflation rate:	3.09 %	2.36 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	84.05 %	120.64 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.00 %	26.10 %
Average income:	27,360 US$	65,750 US$
Corruption index:	61 (moderate)	74 (good)

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	IRL: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,281,485 M US$	27.06 M US$	425,889 M US$	85.27 M US$
Gross national product:	1,295,797 M US$	27.37 M US$	327,793 M US$	65.63 M US$
Exported goods:	392,806 M US$	8.30 M US$	559,371 M US$	111.99 M US$
Imported goods:	373,842 M US$	7.90 M US$	462,206 M US$	92.54 M US$
Gross debt:	1,427,235 M €	30.14 M €	235,851 M €	47.22 M €
Budget deficit:	82,819 M €	1.75 M €	8,111 M €	1.62 M €

Infrastructure

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	IRL: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	683,175 km	14.43 km	99,830 km	19.99 km
Railways:	15,718 km	0.33 km	4,301 km	0.86 km
Waterways:	1,000 km	0.02 km	956 km	0.19 km
Harbours:	478	0.010	96	0.019
Airports:	135	0.003	40	0.008

Energy balance

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	IRL: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	239.50 bn kWh	5.06 m kWh	25.68 bn kWh	5.14 m kWh
Energy production:	258.60 bn kWh	5.46 m kWh	28.53 bn kWh	5.71 m kWh
Energy export:	14.18 bn kWh	299,462.11 kWh	1.58 bn kWh	316,934.43 kWh
Energy imports:	21.85 bn kWh	461,441.96 kWh	871.00 m kWh	174,384.01 kWh
CO2 emissions:	258.34 m t	5,455.79 t	37.11 m t	7,429.84 t

Telecommunication

	Spain	Ireland
International dialing:	+34	+353
Internet domain:	.es	.ie

	ESP total	ESP per 1000 inh.	IRL total	IRL per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	19,455,779	411	1,678,651	336
Mobile cellulars:	55,644,651	1175	5,234,027	1048
Internet server:	4,228,000	89	1,387,000	278
Internet users:	44,134,334	932	4,595,141	920
Broadband Internet:	16,188,502	342	1,516,473	304

Healthcare system

	Spain	Ireland
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.97	2.97
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.07	3.09
Diabetes:	6.9 %	3.2 %
HIV:	0.16 %	0.15 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.1 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	47.0 %	4.0 %
Smokers:	28.1 %	21.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Spain and Ireland

	Spain	Ireland
Daytime temperatures:	21.0 °C	13.2 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	11.1 °C	6.8 °C
Water temperature:	16.7 °C	11.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	83 %
Rain days:	5.9	14.6
Sunshine hours per day:	7.0	3.8

Native languages

	Spain	Ireland
English:	n/a	98.4 %
Spanish:	74.0 %	n/a
Catalan:	17.0 %	n/a
Galecian:	7.0 %	n/a
Basque:	2.0 %	n/a
Irish:	n/a	1.6 %

Religions

	Spain	Ireland
Christianity:	94.0 %	90.1 %
Nondenominational:	n/a	5.7 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
other:	6.0 %	3.1 %