Country comparison: Spain / Italy

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Spain and Italy. For further information and explanations, we provide many details per country that go far beyond this comparison. For example, there are separate sub-pages for both countries on economy, climate, energy, refugees, inflation, population and much more.
In addition, we offer several international comparisons on individual topics, which are also linked on this page.

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 AD	1861 AD
Capital:	Madrid	Rome

Population

Details for Spain and Italy

	Spain	Italy
Population:	47,327,000	59,066,000
Inhabitants/km²:	93.5	196.0
Life expectancy males:	Ø 80 years	Ø 80 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 43.9 years	Ø 46.5 years
Birthrate:	7.10 ‰	6.80 ‰
Deathrate:	10.40 ‰	12.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.35 ‰	3.02 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Spain	Italy
Political stability:	68	68
Civil rights:	73	66
Health:	87	87
Climate:	74	57
Cost of Living:	43	30
Popularity:	68	59

Economy

Details for Spain and Italy

	Spain	Italy
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	14.7 %	9.8 %
Inflation rate:	3.09 %	1.87 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	82.93 %	86.17 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.00 %	59.10 %
Average income:	29,740 US$	35,710 US$
Corruption index:	39 (moderate)	44 (moderate)

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	ITA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,425,277 M US$	30.12 M US$	2,099,880 M US$	35.55 M US$
Gross national product:	1,407,504 M US$	29.74 M US$	2,109,498 M US$	35.71 M US$
Exported goods:	496,963 M US$	10.50 M US$	686,781 M US$	11.63 M US$
Imported goods:	475,429 M US$	10.05 M US$	635,713 M US$	10.76 M US$
Gross debt:	1,687,991 M US$	35.67 M US$	3,167,165 M US$	53.62 M US$
Budget deficit:	97,950 M US$	2.07 M US$	151,772 M US$	2.57 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Spain and Italy

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	ITA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	683,175 km	14.44 km	487,700 km	8.26 km
Railways:	15,718 km	0.33 km	16,779 km	0.28 km
Waterways:	1,000 km	0.02 km	2,400 km	0.04 km
Harbours:	478	0.0101	1,296	0.0219
Passenger airports:	42	0.0009	43	0.0007

Energy balance

Details for Spain and Italy

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	ITA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	239.50 bn kWh	5.06 m kWh	293.50 bn kWh	4.97 m kWh
Energy production:	258.60 bn kWh	5.46 m kWh	275.30 bn kWh	4.66 m kWh
Energy export:	14.18 bn kWh	299,619.54 kWh	6.16 bn kWh	104,205.07 kWh
Energy imports:	21.85 bn kWh	461,684.55 kWh	43.18 bn kWh	731,043.84 kWh
CO2 emissions:	239.98 m t	5,070.71 t	317.24 m t	5,370.92 t

Telecommunication

Details for Spain and Italy

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

	ESP total	ESP per 1000 inh.	ITA total	ITA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	19,455,658	411	19,607,341	332
Mobile cellulars:	55,647,705	1176	77,581,048	1313
Internet server:	4,228,000	89	25,662,000	434
Internet users:	44,111,146	932	41,631,900	705
Broadband Internet:	16,188,502	342	18,128,787	307

Healthcare system

Details for Spain and Italy

	Spain	Italy
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.97	3.14
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.07	4.09
Diabetes:	6.9 %	5.0 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.04 %
Tuberculosis:	0.07 ‰	0.07 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	47.0 %	95.0 %
Smokers:	27.7 %	23.1 %

Climate

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

	Spain	Italy
Daytime temperatures:	21.0 °C	17.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	11.1 °C	9.8 °C
Water temperature:	16.7 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	70 %
Rain days:	5.9	6.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.0	6.1

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 %

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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