Quality of life comparison

compared to

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

Health

be 10.9% more likely to be obese

In Austria, 20.1% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Germany, that number is 22.3% of people as of 2016.

Economy

be 41.8% less likely to be unemployed

In Austria, 5.2% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Germany, that number is 3.0% as of 2023.

pay a 13.6% lower top tax rate

Austria has a top tax rate of 55.0% as of 2016. In Germany, the top tax rate is 47.5% as of 2016.

Life

be 20.0% less likely to die during childbirth

In Austria, approximately 5.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Germany, 4.0 women do as of 2020.

Expenditures

spend 11.3% more on healthcare

Austria spends 11.5% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Germany, that number is 12.8% of GDP as of 2020.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook, Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt), Federal Ministry of Finance.

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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