Country comparison Spain : Italy

General information

	Spain	Italy
Region:	Southern Europe	Southern Europe
Area:	505,935 km²	301,340 km²
Official language:	Spanish	Italian
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1492 n.Chr.	1861 n.Chr.
Capital:	Madrid	Rome

Population

	Spain	Italy
Population:	47,134,000	60,302,000
Inhabitants/km²:	93.2	200.1
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 81 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 86 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 41.4 years	Ø 44.3 years
Birthrate:	7.60 ‰	7.00 ‰
Deathrate:	8.80 ‰	10.50 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.39 ‰	3.21 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Spain	Italy
Political stability:	71	69
Civil rights:	75	65
Health:	89	89
Climate:	73	58
Cost of Living:	39	33
Popularity:	63	60

Economy

	Spain	Italy
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	15.7 %	9.3 %
Inflation rate:	-0.32 %	-0.14 %
Cost of Living:	89.70 %	94.75 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.00 %	59.10 %
Average income:	30,360 US$	34,530 US$
Corruption index:	62 (moderate)	53 (moderate)

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	ITA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,393,491 M US$	29.56 M US$	2,003,576 M US$	33.23 M US$
Gross national product:	1,430,767 M US$	30.36 M US$	2,081,972 M US$	34.53 M US$
Exported goods:	486,150 M US$	10.31 M US$	636,011 M US$	10.55 M US$
Imported goods:	444,308 M US$	9.43 M US$	569,703 M US$	9.45 M US$
Gross debt:	1,188,859 M €	25.22 M €	2,409,904 M €	39.96 M €
Budget deficit:	35,637 M €	0.76 M €	28,650 M €	0.48 M €

Infrastructure

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	ITA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	683,175 km	14.49 km	487,700 km	8.09 km
Railways:	15,333 km	0.33 km	20,182 km	0.33 km
Waterways:	1,000 km	0.02 km	2,400 km	0.04 km
Harbours:	119	0.003	1,353	0.022
Airports:	135	0.003	129	0.002

Energy balance

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	ITA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	239.50 bn kWh	5.08 m kWh	293.50 bn kWh	4.87 m kWh
Energy production:	258.60 bn kWh	5.49 m kWh	275.30 bn kWh	4.57 m kWh
Energy export:	14.18 bn kWh	300,847.46 kWh	6.16 bn kWh	102,069.43 kWh
Energy imports:	21.85 bn kWh	463,576.65 kWh	43.18 bn kWh	716,061.38 kWh
CO2 emissions:	244.00 m t	5,176.83 t	320.41 m t	5,313.44 t

Telecommunication

	Spain	Italy
International dialing:	+34	+39
Internet domain:	.es	.it

	ESP total	ESP per 1000 inh.	ITA total	ITA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	19,816,900	420	19,621,100	325
Mobile phones:	55,267,600	1173	80,580,500	1336
Internet server:	4,228,000	90	25,662,000	426
Internet users:	42,707,444	906	44,853,545	744

Healthcare system

	Spain	Italy
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.00	3.40
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.07	4.09
Diabetes:	6.9 %	5.0 %
HIV:	0.12 %	0.09 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.1 %
Smokers:	27.9 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Spain and Italy

	Spain	Italy
Daytime temperatures:	21.1 °C	18.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	11.2 °C	10.8 °C
Water temperature:	16.7 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	70 %
Rain days:	5.9	6.4
Sunshine hours per day:	7.0	5.9

Native languages

	Spain	Italy
Italian:	n/a	94.1 %
Spanish:	74.0 %	n/a
Catalan:	17.0 %	n/a
Galecian:	7.0 %	n/a
Sardinian:	n/a	2.7 %
Basque:	2.0 %	n/a
Friuli:	n/a	1.2 %
French:	n/a	0.5 %
German:	n/a	0.5 %
Albanian:	n/a	0.2 %
Slovenian:	n/a	0.2 %
Romany:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	0.0 %	0.4 %

Religions

	Spain	Italy
Christianity:	94.0 %	91.6 %
nondenominational:	n/a	5.8 %
Islam:	n/a	1.9 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.3 %
Hinduism:	n/a	0.2 %
Sikhism:	n/a	0.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	6.0 %	0.0 %