Country comparison: Spain / Portugal

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

General information

	Spain	Portugal
Region:	Southern Europe	Southern Europe
Area:	505,935 km²	92,226 km²
Official language:	Spanish	Portuguese
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Semi-presidential republic
Independent since:	1492 AD	1143 AD
Capital:	Madrid	Lisbon

Population

Details for Spain and Portugal

	Spain	Portugal
Population:	47,416,000	10,325,000
Inhabitants/km²:	93.7	112.0
Life expectancy males:	Ø 80 years	Ø 78 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 86 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 43.9 years	Ø 44.6 years
Birth rate:	7.10 ‰	7.70 ‰
Death rate:	9.50 ‰	12.10 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.23 ‰	1.20 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Spain	Portugal
Political stability:	65	75
Civil rights:	73	76
Health:	87	82
Climate:	74	71
Cost of Living:	41	45
Popularity:	68	38

Economy

Details for Spain and Portugal

	Spain	Portugal
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	13.0 %	5.8 %
Inflation rate:	8.39 %	7.83 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	75.55 %	69.61 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.00 %	39.80 %
Average income:	29,690 US$	23,890 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):	118.55 %	127.43 %
Government debt (% of GDP):	106.22 %	131.92 %
Corruption index:	40 (moderate)	38 (moderate)

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	PRT: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,427,381 M US$	30.10 M US$	253,663 M US$	24.57 M US$
Gross national product:	1,407,936 M US$	29.69 M US$	246,714 M US$	23.89 M US$
Exported goods:	497,868 M US$	10.50 M US$	105,648 M US$	10.23 M US$
Imported goods:	476,678 M US$	10.05 M US$	112,413 M US$	10.89 M US$
Budget deficit:	67,156 M US$	1.42 M US$	994 M US$	0.10 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Spain and Portugal

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	PRT: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	683,175 km	14.41 km	82,900 km	8.03 km
Railways:	15,718 km	0.33 km	2,526 km	0.24 km
Waterways:	1,000 km	0.02 km	210 km	0.02 km
Harbours:	478	0.0101	726	0.0703
Passenger airports:	42	0.0009	18	0.0017

Energy balance

Details for Spain and Portugal

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	PRT: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	1.015 tn kWh	21.40 m kWh	195.91 bn kWh	18.97 m kWh
Energy consumption:	233.27 bn kWh	4.92 m kWh	48.41 bn kWh	4.69 m kWh
Energy production:	253.99 bn kWh	5.36 m kWh	52.22 bn kWh	5.06 m kWh
Energy export:	14.65 bn kWh	308,947.98 kWh	6.10 bn kWh	590,500.07 kWh
Energy imports:	17.93 bn kWh	378,102.21 kWh	7.55 bn kWh	731,515.01 kWh
CO2 emissions:	239.98 m t	5,061.14 t	44.64 m t	4,323.29 t

Telecommunication

Details for Spain and Portugal

	Spain	Portugal
International dialing:	+34	+351
Internet domain:	.es	.pt

	ESP total	ESP per 1000 inh.	PRT total	PRT per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	19,075,931	402	5,318,750	515
Mobile cellulars:	56,805,348	1198	12,476,165	1208
Internet server:	4,228,000	89	3,748,000	363
Internet users:	44,522,214	939	8,498,528	823
Broadband Internet:	16,710,090	352	4,313,761	418

Healthcare system

Details for Spain and Portugal

	Spain	Portugal
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.97	3.45
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.07	3.34
Diabetes:	6.9 %	9.8 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.14 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.16 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	53.0 %	73.0 %
Smokers:	27.7 %	25.4 %

Climate

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

	Spain	Portugal
Daytime temperatures:	21.1 °C	21.5 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	11.2 °C	13.2 °C
Water temperature:	16.7 °C	16.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	74 %
Rain days:	5.9	6.3
Sunshine hours per day:	7.0	7.2

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Portugal
Spain

Native languages

	Spain	Portugal
Portuguese:	n/a	99.0 %
Spanish:	74.0 %	n/a
Catalan:	17.0 %	n/a
Galician:	7.0 %	n/a
Basque:	2.0 %	n/a
other:	0.0 %	1.0 %

Religions

	Spain	Portugal
Christianity:	94.0 %	84.3 %
Nondenominational:	n/a	6.8 %
other:	6.0 %	8.9 %

Data inventory and updates

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