Country comparison Spain : Portugal

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

	Spain	Portugal
Population:	47,363,000	10,297,000
Inhabitants/km²:	93.6	111.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 80 years	Ø 78 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 43.9 years	Ø 44.6 years
Birthrate:	7.10 ‰	8.20 ‰
Deathrate:	10.40 ‰	12.00 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.39 ‰	0.62 ‰

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:	63	79
Civil rights:	73	77
Health:	87	82
Climate:	74	68
Cost of Living:	41	44
Popularity:	60	37

Economy

	Spain	Portugal
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	14.7 %	6.7 %
Inflation rate:	3.09 %	1.27 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	84.05 %	77.06 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.00 %	39.80 %
Average income:	29,740 US$	23,730 US$
Corruption index:	39 (moderate)	38 (moderate)

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	PRT: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,425,277 M US$	30.09 M US$	249,886 M US$	24.27 M US$
Gross national product:	1,407,504 M US$	29.72 M US$	244,396 M US$	23.73 M US$
Exported goods:	392,806 M US$	8.29 M US$	105,295 M US$	10.23 M US$
Imported goods:	373,842 M US$	7.89 M US$	111,858 M US$	10.86 M US$
Gross debt:	1,427,235 M €	30.13 M €	269,232 M €	26.15 M €
Budget deficit:	82,819 M €	1.75 M €	5,977 M €	0.58 M €

Infrastructure

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	PRT: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	683,175 km	14.42 km	82,900 km	8.05 km
Railways:	15,718 km	0.33 km	2,526 km	0.25 km
Waterways:	1,000 km	0.02 km	210 km	0.02 km
Harbours:	478	0.010	726	0.071
Airports:	135	0.003	64	0.006

Energy balance

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	PRT: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	239.50 bn kWh	5.06 m kWh	46.94 bn kWh	4.56 m kWh
Energy production:	258.60 bn kWh	5.46 m kWh	56.90 bn kWh	5.53 m kWh
Energy export:	14.18 bn kWh	299,387.17 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	942,111.65 kWh
Energy imports:	21.85 bn kWh	461,326.49 kWh	4.62 bn kWh	448,282.38 kWh
CO2 emissions:	258.34 m t	5,454.42 t	49.78 m t	4,834.38 t

Telecommunication

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

	ESP total	ESP per 1000 inh.	PRT total	PRT per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	19,455,779	411	5,212,507	506
Mobile cellulars:	55,644,651	1175	11,854,999	1151
Internet server:	4,228,000	89	3,748,000	364
Internet users:	44,134,334	932	8,065,305	783
Broadband Internet:	16,188,502	342	4,160,795	404

Healthcare system

	Spain	Portugal
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.97	3.45
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.07	3.34
Diabetes:	6.9 %	9.8 %
HIV:	0.16 %	0.13 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.2 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	47.0 %	71.0 %
Smokers:	27.7 %	25.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Spain and Portugal

	Spain	Portugal
Daytime temperatures:	21.0 °C	21.2 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	11.1 °C	11.6 °C
Water temperature:	16.7 °C	16.4 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	74 %
Rain days:	5.9	6.4
Sunshine hours per day:	7.0	7.2

Native languages

	Spain	Portugal
Portuguese:	n/a	99.0 %
Spanish:	74.0 %	n/a
Catalan:	17.0 %	n/a
Galecian:	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 %