Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Germany instead of Portugal, you would:

Economy

make 58.1% more money

Portugal has a GDP per capita of $32,200 as of 2020, while in Germany, the GDP per capita is $50,900 as of 2020.

be 24.0% less likely to be unemployed

In Portugal, 6.5% of adults are unemployed as of 2019. In Germany, that number is 5.0% as of 2019.

be 14.0% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Portugal, 17.2% live below the poverty line as of 2018. In Germany, however, that number is 14.8% as of 2018.

pay a 15.9% lower top tax rate

Portugal has a top tax rate of 56.5% as of 2016. In Germany, the top tax rate is 47.5% as of 2016.

Life

have 12.1% more children

In Portugal, there are approximately 8.1 babies per 1,000 people as of 2020. In Germany, there are 9.1 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022.

be 27.6% more likely to die during infancy

In Portugal, approximately 2.5 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In Germany, on the other hand, 3.2 children do as of 2022.

Basic Needs

be 15.4% more likely to have internet access

In Portugal, approximately 78.0% of the population has internet access as of 2020. In Germany, about 90.0% do as of 2020.

Expenditures

spend 23.2% more on healthcare

Portugal spends 9.5% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2019. In Germany, that number is 11.7% of GDP as of 2019.

Geography

see 33.2% more coastline

Portugal has a total of 1,793 km of coastline. In Germany, that number is 2,389 km.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook, Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt), Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira.

Germany: At a glance

Germany is a sovereign country in Europe, with a total land area of approximately 348,672 sq km. As Europe's largest economy and second most populous nation (after Russia), Germany is a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring Eastern productivity and wages up to Western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the euro.
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