Country comparison Spain : Latvia

General information

	Spain	Latvia
Region:	Southern Europe	Northern Europe
Area:	505,935 km²	64,490 km²
Official language:	Spanish	Latvian
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1492 AD	1991 AD
Capital:	Madrid	Riga

Population

	Spain	Latvia
Population:	47,363,000	1,900,000
Inhabitants/km²:	93.6	29.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 80 years	Ø 71 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 43.9 years	Ø 44.4 years
Birthrate:	7.10 ‰	9.20 ‰
Deathrate:	10.40 ‰	15.20 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.39 ‰	-5.32 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Spain	Latvia
Political stability:	63	73
Civil rights:	73	74
Health:	87	77
Climate:	74	19
Cost of Living:	41	55
Popularity:	60	24

Economy

	Spain	Latvia
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	14.7 %	7.6 %
Inflation rate:	3.09 %	3.28 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	84.05 %	67.93 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.00 %	38.10 %
Average income:	29,740 US$	19,370 US$
Corruption index:	39 (moderate)	41 (moderate)

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	LVA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,425,277 M US$	30.09 M US$	38,873 M US$	20.45 M US$
Gross national product:	1,407,504 M US$	29.72 M US$	36,483 M US$	19.20 M US$
Exported goods:	392,806 M US$	8.29 M US$	24,862 M US$	13.08 M US$
Imported goods:	373,842 M US$	7.89 M US$	25,674 M US$	13.51 M US$
Gross debt:	1,427,235 M €	30.13 M €	14,740 M €	7.76 M €
Budget deficit:	82,819 M €	1.75 M €	2,416 M €	1.27 M €

Infrastructure

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	LVA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	683,175 km	14.42 km	70,244 km	36.96 km
Railways:	15,718 km	0.33 km	1,860 km	0.98 km
Waterways:	1,000 km	0.02 km	300 km	0.16 km
Harbours:	478	0.010	70	0.037
Airports:	135	0.003	42	0.022

Energy balance

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	LVA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	239.50 bn kWh	5.06 m kWh	6.80 bn kWh	3.58 m kWh
Energy production:	258.60 bn kWh	5.46 m kWh	6.24 bn kWh	3.28 m kWh
Energy export:	14.18 bn kWh	299,387.17 kWh	3.80 bn kWh	2.00 m kWh
Energy imports:	21.85 bn kWh	461,326.49 kWh	4.83 bn kWh	2.54 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	258.34 m t	5,454.42 t	7.63 m t	4,014.84 t

Telecommunication

	Spain	Latvia
International dialing:	+34	+371
Internet domain:	.es	.lv

	ESP total	ESP per 1000 inh.	LVA total	LVA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	19,455,779	411	211,849	111
Mobile cellulars:	55,644,651	1175	2,051,359	1079
Internet server:	4,228,000	89	359,604	189
Internet users:	44,134,334	932	1,690,437	889
Broadband Internet:	16,188,502	342	490,569	258

Healthcare system

	Spain	Latvia
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.97	5.49
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.07	3.19
Diabetes:	6.9 %	5.0 %
HIV:	0.16 %	0.38 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.2 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	47.0 %	85.0 %
Smokers:	27.7 %	37.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Spain and Latvia

	Spain	Latvia
Daytime temperatures:	21.0 °C	10.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	11.1 °C	3.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	80 %
Rain days:	5.9	10.2
Sunshine hours per day:	7.0	5.0

Native languages

	Spain	Latvia
Spanish:	74.0 %	n/a
Latvian:	n/a	56.3 %
Russian:	n/a	33.8 %
Catalan:	17.0 %	n/a
Galecian:	7.0 %	n/a
Ukrainian:	n/a	2.2 %
Basque:	2.0 %	n/a
Polish:	n/a	1.8 %
Lithuanian:	n/a	1.1 %
other:	0.0 %	4.8 %

Religions

	Spain	Latvia
Christianity:	94.0 %	35.9 %
other:	6.0 %	64.1 %