Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Germany instead of Isle of Man, you would:

Economy

make 26.8% less money

Isle of Man has a GDP per capita of $84,600 as of 2014, while in Germany, the GDP per capita is $61,900 as of 2023.

be 2.8 times more likely to be unemployed

In Isle of Man, 1.1% of adults are unemployed as of 2017. In Germany, that number is 3.0% as of 2023.

pay a 2.4 times higher top tax rate

Isle of Man has a top tax rate of 20.0% as of 2016. In Germany, the top tax rate is 47.5% as of 2016.

Life

be 24.8% less likely to die during infancy

In Isle of Man, approximately 4.2 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.

have 14.4% fewer children

In Isle of Man, there are approximately 10.4 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Germany, there are 8.9 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Geography

see 14.9 times more coastline

Isle of Man has a total of 160 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), Income Tax Services, Isle of Man Government.

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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