Austria: 0 km (2026 edition) · Spain: 4,964 km (2026 edition)

Austria’s highest peak towers 80 m above Spain’s

Austria: 3,798 m (2026 edition) · Spain: 3,718 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 49% of Spain, versus 31% of Austria

Austria: 31.1% (2024) · Spain: 49.3% (2024)

Spain has 5.4 times as many people as Austria

Austria: 9.21 million (2025) · Spain: 49.4 million (2025)

Austria is 13% more densely populated than Spain

Austria: 112 per km² (2025) · Spain: 99 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Spain is 1.8 years older than in Austria

Austria: 43.1 years (2023) · Spain: 44.9 years (2023)

Women in Austria have 0.2 more children on average than in Spain

Austria: 1.31 children per woman (2024) · Spain: 1.1 children per woman (2024)

22% of people in Spain are 65 or older, versus 21% in Austria

Austria: 21.1% (2025) · Spain: 21.6% (2025)

Austria hosts 3 times as many refugees per resident as Spain

Austria: 31.1 per 1,000 (2025) · Spain: 10.4 per 1,000 (2025)

Austria has produced 20.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Spain 1.4

Austria: 20.6 (2026) · Spain: 1.4 (2026)

Austria and Spain are practically level

Austria: 1 (2026) · Spain: 1 (2026)

Spain’s economy is 3.3 times the size of Austria’s

Austria: $579 billion (2025) · Spain: $1.91 trillion (2025)

Austria produces 28% more per person than Spain

Austria: Int$76,778 (2025) · Spain: Int$59,868 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Spain than in Austria (Gini 2.2 points higher)

Austria: 31.2 (2023) · Spain: 33.4 (2023)

Spain and Austria are practically level

Austria: 0.5% (2023) · Spain: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 10% in Spain, versus 5.6% in Austria

Austria: 5.6% (2025) · Spain: 10.4% (2025)

Spain spends 2.1% of its GDP on the military, Austria 1.1%

Austria: 1.1% (2025) · Spain: 2.1% (2025)

Austria’s central government collects 26% of GDP in tax, Spain’s 15%

Austria: 25.8% (2024) · Spain: 14.9% (2024)

Austria’s price level (US = 100) is 1.3× Spain’s

Austria: 82% (2025) · Spain: 65% (2025)

Austria spends 2.2 times as much on health per person as Spain

Austria: $6,739 (2024) · Spain: $3,107 (2023)

A baby in Austria is 8% more likely to die before turning one than in Spain

Austria: 2.8 per 1,000 (2024) · Spain: 2.6 per 1,000 (2024)

Austria has 28% more doctors per person than Spain

Austria: 5.5 per 1,000 (2023) · Spain: 4.3 per 1,000 (2022)

Austria has 2.3 times as many hospital beds per person as Spain

Austria: 6.7 per 1,000 (2022) · Spain: 2.9 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Austria is 79% higher than in Spain

Austria: 12.7 per 100k (2023) · Spain: 7.1 per 100k (2023)

19% of adults in Spain are obese, versus 18% in Austria

Austria: 18.3% (2024) · Spain: 18.9% (2024)

28% of adults in Spain smoke, versus 24% in Austria

Austria: 23.8% (2024) · Spain: 27.6% (2024)

People in Austria rate their lives 0.30 points higher than in Spain

Austria: 6.85 (2025) · Spain: 6.54 (2025)

Adults in Spain drink 4% more alcohol than in Austria

Austria: 11.6 litres (2023) · Spain: 12.1 litres (2023)

Spain has 37% more meat per person than Austria

Austria: 73.7 kg (2023) · Spain: 100.8 kg (2023)

Austria has 379 kcal more food per person per day than Spain

Austria: 3,756 kcal (2023) · Spain: 3,377 kcal (2023)

Workers in Spain put in 200 more hours a year than in Austria

Austria: 1,438 hours (2023) · Spain: 1,638 hours (2023)

Adults in Austria went to school 1.6 years longer than in Spain

Austria: 12.4 years (2023) · Spain: 10.8 years (2023)

Austria welcomed 51% more tourists per resident than Spain (2019)

Austria: 2.9 (2022) · Spain: 1.92 (2024)

Spain has 38 more World Heritage sites than Austria (50 against 12)

Austria: 12 (2026) · Spain: 50 (2026)

Austria has won 367 Olympic medals, Spain 195

Austria: 367 (2026 edition) · Spain: 195 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Spain are online, versus 92% in Austria

Austria: 92% (2025) · Spain: 96% (2024)

Home internet in Spain is 86% faster than in Austria

Austria: 174 Mbps (2026) · Spain: 324 Mbps (2026)

Austria and Spain are practically level

Austria: 100% (2024) · Spain: 100% (2024)

81% of people in Spain live in cities, versus 70% in Austria

Austria: 70% (2025) · Spain: 81% (2025)

Spain has 130 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Austria 124

Austria: 124 (2024) · Spain: 130 (2024)

Spain’s railway network is 3.2 times as long as Austria’s

Austria: 4,962 km (2021) · Spain: 15,963 km (2021)

Airlines from Austria fly 2.6 times as many passengers per resident as those from Spain

Austria: 5 (2023) · Spain: 1.91 (2023)

Forest covers 47% of Austria, but only 38% of Spain

Austria: 47.3% (2024) · Spain: 38.2% (2024)

The average person in Austria emits 34% more CO₂ than someone in Spain

Austria: 6.2 t (2024) · Spain: 4.6 t (2024)

84% of Austria’s electricity is renewable, versus 56% in Spain

Austria: 83.6% (2025) · Spain: 55.9% (2025)

The air in Austria carries 3% more fine dust than in Spain

Austria: 10.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Spain: 10 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 27% more likely to be murdered in Austria than in Spain

Austria: 0.9 per 100k (2023) · Spain: 0.7 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Austria are 5% deadlier than in Spain

Austria: 6.5 per 100k (2023) · Spain: 6.2 per 100k (2023)

Spain is on average 7.0 °C warmer than Austria

Austria: 7.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · Spain: 14.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Austria gets 91% more rain than Spain

Austria: 1,268 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Spain: 665 mm (2016–2025 avg)