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 AD	1861 AD
Capital:	Madrid	Rome

Population

	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:	64	65
Civil rights:	73	65
Health:	87	87
Climate:	74	57
Cost of Living:	43	30
Popularity:	66	65

Economy

	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

	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	0.010	1,296	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	5.06 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

	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

	Spain	Italy
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.97	3.14
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.07	4.09
Diabetes:	6.9 %	5.0 %
HIV:	0.16 %	0.09 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.1 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	47.0 %	95.0 %
Smokers:	27.7 %	23.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: 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 %
Jewry:	n/a	0.1 %
Sikhism:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	6.0 %	0.0 %