Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Germany instead of Hong Kong, you would:

Health

live 4.6 years less

In Hong Kong, the average life expectancy is 85 years (83 years for men, 88 years for women) as of 2024. In Germany, that number is 81 years (78 years for men, 83 years for women) as of 2024.

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Economy

be 32.5% more likely to be unemployed

In Hong Kong, 2.8% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Germany, that number is 3.7% as of 2025.

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Life

have 65.3% more children

In Hong Kong, there are approximately 4.9 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Germany, there are 8.1 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

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be 21.6% more likely to die during infancy

In Hong Kong, 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, 3.1 children do as of 2024.

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Expenditures

spend 37.5% more on education

Hong Kong spends 3.8% of its total GDP on education as of 2024. Germany spends 5.2% of total GDP on education as of 2022.

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Geography

see 3.3 times more coastline

Hong Kong has a total of 733 km of coastline. In Germany, that number is 2,389 km.

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Safety

be 2.4 times more likely to be murdered

Hong Kong has a homicide rate of 0.4 per 100,000 people as of 2023. In Germany, that number is 0.9 per 100,000 as of 2023.

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Infrastructure

find 13.3% more home broadband

Hong Kong has 40.3 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2024. Germany has 45.6 as of 2024.

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Environment

emit 50.9% more CO2

Hong Kong emits 4.6 tonnes of CO2 per person each year as of 2024. Germany emits 6.9 tonnes as of 2024.

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Sources: World Bank (2022–2025), The World Factbook (2022). How we calculate this

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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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