Country comparison Italy : Poland

General information

	Italy	Poland
Region:	Southern Europe	Eastern Europe
Area:	301,340 km²	312,680 km²
Official language:	Italian	Polish
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1861 n.Chr.	1918 n.Chr.
Capital:	Rome	Warsaw

Population

	Italy	Poland
Population:	59,554,000	37,951,000
Inhabitants/km²:	197.6	121.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 74 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 82 years
Average age:	Ø 44.3 years	Ø 38.8 years
Birthrate:	7.00 ‰	9.90 ‰
Deathrate:	10.50 ‰	10.80 ‰
Migrationrate:	3.21 ‰	-0.33 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Italy	Poland
Political stability:	68	70
Civil rights:	65	67
Health:	89	82
Climate:	58	26
Cost of Living:	29	57
Popularity:	59	52

Economy

	Italy	Poland
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Zloty (1 PLN =100 Groszy)
Unemployment rate:	9.3 %	3.6 %
Inflation rate:	-0.14 %	3.37 %
Cost of Living:	93.53 %	54.80 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	59.10 %	40.80 %
Average income:	32,200 US$	15,270 US$
Corruption index:	53 (moderate)	56 (moderate)

	ITA: total	per 1000 inh.	POL: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,886,445 M US$	31.68 M US$	594,165 M US$	15.66 M US$
Gross national product:	1,917,860 M US$	32.20 M US$	579,698 M US$	15.27 M US$
Exported goods:	558,259 M US$	9.37 M US$	333,543 M US$	8.79 M US$
Imported goods:	486,347 M US$	8.17 M US$	292,444 M US$	7.71 M US$
Gross debt:	2,409,904 M €	40.47 M €	245,581 M €	6.47 M €
Budget deficit:	28,650 M €	0.48 M €	3,696 M €	0.10 M €

Infrastructure

	ITA: total	per 1000 inh.	POL: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	487,700 km	8.19 km	420,000 km	11.07 km
Railways:	20,182 km	0.34 km	19,231 km	0.51 km
Waterways:	2,400 km	0.04 km	3,997 km	0.11 km
Harbours:	1,353	0.023	144	0.004
Airports:	129	0.002	126	0.003

Energy balance

	ITA: total	per 1000 inh.	POL: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	293.50 bn kWh	4.93 m kWh	149.40 bn kWh	3.94 m kWh
Energy production:	275.30 bn kWh	4.62 m kWh	156.90 bn kWh	4.13 m kWh
Energy export:	6.16 bn kWh	103,351.54 kWh	12.02 bn kWh	316,725.85 kWh
Energy imports:	43.18 bn kWh	725,055.97 kWh	14.02 bn kWh	369,425.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	324.85 m t	5,454.71 t	312.74 m t	8,240.67 t

Telecommunication

	Italy	Poland
International dialing:	+39	+48
Internet domain:	.it	.pl

	ITA total	ITA per 1000 inh.	POL total	POL per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	19,621,100	329	6,824,900	180
Mobile phones:	80,580,500	1353	52,268,100	1377
Internet server:	25,662,000	431	13,265,000	350
Internet users:	44,853,545	753	32,091,654	846

Healthcare system

	Italy	Poland
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.40	6.50
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.09	2.40
Diabetes:	5.0 %	6.1 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.2 %
Smokers:	23.4 %	26.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Italy and Poland

	Italy	Poland
Daytime temperatures:	18.9 °C	13.4 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	10.8 °C	4.9 °C
Rel. humidity:	70 %	76 %
Rain days:	6.4	8.6
Sunshine hours per day:	5.9	5.1

Native languages

	Italy	Poland
Polish:	n/a	97.6 %
Italian:	94.1 %	n/a
Sardinian:	2.7 %	n/a
German:	0.5 %	1.3 %
Friuli:	1.2 %	n/a
Ukrainian:	n/a	0.6 %
French:	0.5 %	n/a
Byelorussian:	n/a	0.5 %
Albanian:	0.2 %	n/a
Slovenian:	0.2 %	n/a
Romany:	0.2 %	n/a
other:	0.4 %	0.0 %

Religions

	Italy	Poland
Christianity:	91.6 %	88.7 %
nondenominational:	5.8 %	n/a
Islam:	1.9 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.3 %	n/a
Hinduism:	0.2 %	n/a
Sikhism:	0.1 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	0.0 %	11.3 %