Country comparison: Spain / Thailand

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Spain and Thailand. 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	Thailand
Region:	Southern Europe	Southeast Asia
Area:	505,935 km²	513,120 km²
Official language:	Spanish	Thai
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Constitutional monarchy (interim military-government since May 2014)
Independent since:	1492 AD	1350 AD
Capital:	Madrid	Bangkok

Population

Details for Spain and Thailand

	Spain	Thailand
Population:	47,327,000	69,951,000
Inhabitants/km²:	93.5	136.3
Life expectancy males:	Ø 80 years	Ø 74 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 43.9 years	Ø 39.0 years
Birthrate:	7.10 ‰	9.99 ‰
Deathrate:	10.40 ‰	7.92 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.35 ‰	-0.13 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Spain	Thailand
Political stability:	68	63
Civil rights:	73	39
Health:	87	65
Climate:	74	46
Cost of Living:	43	55
Popularity:	68	42

Economy

Details for Spain and Thailand

	Spain	Thailand
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Thai baht (1 THB =100 Satang)
Unemployment rate:	14.7 %	1.4 %
Inflation rate:	3.09 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	82.93 %	38.40 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.00 %	29.50 %
Average income:	29,740 US$	7,260 US$
Corruption index:	39 (moderate)	65 (bad)

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	THA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,425,277 M US$	30.12 M US$	505,982 M US$	7.23 M US$
Gross national product:	1,407,504 M US$	29.74 M US$	507,559 M US$	7.26 M US$
Exported goods:	496,963 M US$	10.50 M US$	294,090 M US$	4.20 M US$
Imported goods:	475,429 M US$	10.05 M US$	295,135 M US$	4.22 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Spain and Thailand

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	THA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	683,175 km	14.44 km	180,053 km	2.57 km
Railways:	15,718 km	0.33 km	4,127 km	0.06 km
Waterways:	1,000 km	0.02 km	4,000 km	0.06 km
Harbours:	478	0.0101	839	0.0120
Passenger airports:	42	0.0009	32	0.0005

Energy balance

Details for Spain and Thailand

	ESP: total	per 1000 inh.	THA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	239.50 bn kWh	5.06 m kWh	187.70 bn kWh	2.68 m kWh
Energy production:	258.60 bn kWh	5.46 m kWh	181.50 bn kWh	2.59 m kWh
Energy export:	14.18 bn kWh	299,619.54 kWh	2.27 bn kWh	32,408.47 kWh
Energy imports:	21.85 bn kWh	461,684.55 kWh	19.83 bn kWh	283,484.79 kWh
CO2 emissions:	239.98 m t	5,070.71 t	267.09 m t	3,818.25 t

Telecommunication

Details for Spain and Thailand

	Spain	Thailand
International dialing:	+34	+66
Internet domain:	.es	.th

	ESP total	ESP per 1000 inh.	THA total	THA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	19,455,658	411	5,003,000	72
Mobile cellulars:	55,647,705	1176	116,294,000	1663
Internet server:	4,228,000	89	3,399,000	49
Internet users:	44,111,146	932	54,452,354	778
Broadband Internet:	16,188,502	342	11,478,265	164

Healthcare system

Details for Spain and Thailand

	Spain	Thailand
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.97	2.10
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.07	0.81
Diabetes:	6.9 %	7.0 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.19 %
Tuberculosis:	0.07 ‰	1.50 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	47.0 %	85.0 %
Smokers:	27.7 %	22.1 %

Climate

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

	Spain	Thailand
Daytime temperatures:	21.1 °C	33.0 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	11.2 °C	23.9 °C
Water temperature:	16.7 °C	27.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	78 %
Rain days:	5.9	9.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.0	6.4

Native languages

	Spain	Thailand
Spanish:	74.0 %	n/a
Thai:	n/a	52.6 %
Lao:	n/a	23.4 %
Catalan:	17.0 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	12.3 %
Galecian:	7.0 %	n/a
Malay:	n/a	3.6 %
Basque:	2.0 %	n/a
Burmese:	n/a	1.3 %
Khmer:	n/a	1.3 %
Kuy:	n/a	1.1 %
other:	0.0 %	4.4 %

Religions

	Spain	Thailand
Christianity:	94.0 %	1.2 %
Buddhism:	n/a	92.0 %
Islam:	n/a	4.9 %
Nondenominational:	n/a	0.1 %
Sikhism:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	6.0 %	1.7 %

Data inventory and updates

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