Country comparison: Spain / Iran

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

General information

	Spain	Iran
Region:	Southern Europe	South Asia
Area:	505,935 km²	1,745,150 km²
National language:	Spanish	Persian
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Islamic Republic
Independent since:	1492 AD	1906 AD
Capital:	Madrid	Tehran

Population

Details for Spain and Iran

	Spain	Iran
Population:	47,416,000	87,923,000
Inhabitants/km²:	93.7	50.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 80 years	Ø 72 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 78 years
Average age:	Ø 43.9 years	Ø 31.7 years
Birth rate:	7.10 ‰	14.23 ‰
Death rate:	10.40 ‰	5.57 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.35 ‰	-0.30 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Spain	Iran
Political stability:	67	22
Civil rights:	73	13
Health:	87	56
Climate:	74	58
Cost of Living:	43	31
Popularity:	68	41

Economy

	Spain	Iran
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Iranian rial (1 IRR =100 Dinars)
Unemployment rate:	14.7 %	11.5 %
Inflation rate:	3.09 %	43.39 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	82.93 %	92.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.00 %	44.70 %
Average income:	29,690 US$	3,530 US$
Corruption index:	40 (moderate)	75 (very bad)

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	IRN: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,427,381 M US$	30.10 M US$	359,713 M US$	4.09 M US$
Gross national product:	1,407,936 M US$	29.69 M US$	310,228 M US$	3.53 M US$
Exported goods:	497,868 M US$	10.50 M US$	29,727 M US$	0.34 M US$
Imported goods:	476,678 M US$	10.05 M US$	17,503 M US$	0.20 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Spain and Iran

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	IRN: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	683,175 km	14.41 km	223,485 km	2.54 km
Railways:	15,718 km	0.33 km	8,484 km	0.10 km
Waterways:	1,000 km	0.02 km	850 km	0.01 km
Harbours:	478	0.0101	893	0.0102
Passenger airports:	42	0.0009	43	0.0005

Energy balance

Details for Spain and Iran

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	IRN: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	239.50 bn kWh	5.05 m kWh	236.30 bn kWh	2.69 m kWh
Energy production:	258.60 bn kWh	5.45 m kWh	272.30 bn kWh	3.10 m kWh
Energy export:	14.18 bn kWh	299,056.75 kWh	6.82 bn kWh	77,590.24 kWh
Energy imports:	21.85 bn kWh	460,817.34 kWh	4.22 bn kWh	48,007.68 kWh
CO2 emissions:	239.98 m t	5,061.19 t	630.01 m t	7,165.44 t

Telecommunication

Details for Spain and Iran

	Spain	Iran
International dialing:	+34	+98
Internet domain:	.es	.ir

	ESP total	ESP per 1000 inh.	IRN total	IRN per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	19,075,931	402	29,306,782	333
Mobile cellulars:	56,805,348	1198	135,889,424	1546
Internet server:	4,228,000	89	197,804	2
Internet users:	44,522,214	939	69,104,068	786
Broadband Internet:	16,392,286	346	10,674,899	121

Healthcare system

Details for Spain and Iran

	Spain	Iran
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.97	1.56
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.07	1.14
Diabetes:	6.9 %	9.6 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.04 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.12 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	53.0 %	84.0 %
Smokers:	27.7 %	13.6 %

Climate

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

	Spain	Iran
Daytime temperatures:	21.1 °C	26.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	11.2 °C	13.8 °C
Water temperature:	16.7 °C	26.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	49 %
Rain days:	5.9	2.9
Sunshine hours per day:	7.0	8.1

Native languages

	Spain	Iran
Spanish:	74.0 %	n/a
Persian:	n/a	53.0 %
Catalan:	17.0 %	n/a
Azerbaijanian:	n/a	14.3 %
Kurdish:	n/a	9.1 %
Galician:	7.0 %	n/a
Luri:	n/a	5.6 %
Gilaki:	n/a	5.3 %
Mazandarani:	n/a	3.6 %
Basque:	2.0 %	n/a
Arabic:	n/a	2.0 %
Balochi:	n/a	2.0 %
Bakhtyari:	n/a	1.3 %
Turkmen:	n/a	1.2 %
other:	0.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Spain	Iran
Islam:	n/a	96.5 %
Christianity:	94.0 %	0.4 %
Bahaism:	n/a	0.4 %
other:	6.0 %	2.7 %

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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