Spain’s coastline is 22 times as long as Romania’s

Romania: 225 km (2026 edition) · Spain: 4,964 km (2026 edition)

Spain’s highest peak towers 1,174 m above Romania’s

Romania: 2,544 m (2026 edition) · Spain: 3,718 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 55% of Romania, versus 49% of Spain

Romania: 55.2% (2024) · Spain: 49.3% (2024)

Spain has 2.6 times as many people as Romania

Romania: 19 million (2025) · Spain: 49.4 million (2025)

Spain is 19% more densely populated than Romania

Romania: 83 per km² (2025) · Spain: 99 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Spain is 2.3 years older than in Romania

Romania: 42.6 years (2023) · Spain: 44.9 years (2023)

Women in Romania have 0.3 more children on average than in Spain

Romania: 1.39 children per woman (2024) · Spain: 1.1 children per woman (2024)

22% of people in Spain are 65 or older, versus 20% in Romania

Romania: 20.1% (2025) · Spain: 21.6% (2025)

Romania hosts 5% more refugees per resident than Spain

Romania: 10.9 per 1,000 (2025) · Spain: 10.4 per 1,000 (2025)

Romania has produced 2.1 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Spain 1.4

Romania: 2.1 (2026) · Spain: 1.4 (2026)

Romania and Spain are practically level

Romania: 1 (2026) · Spain: 1 (2026)

Spain’s economy is 4.4 times the size of Romania’s

Romania: $429 billion (2025) · Spain: $1.91 trillion (2025)

Spain produces 18% more per person than Romania

Romania: Int$50,895 (2025) · Spain: Int$59,868 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Spain than in Romania (Gini 3.6 points higher)

Romania: 29.8 (2023) · Spain: 33.4 (2023)

Spain and Romania are practically level

Romania: 0.7% (2023) · Spain: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 10% in Spain, versus 6.0% in Romania

Romania: 6% (2025) · Spain: 10.4% (2025)

Romania and Spain are practically level

Romania: 2.3% (2025) · Spain: 2.1% (2025)

Romania’s central government collects 16% of GDP in tax, Spain’s 15%

Romania: 16.2% (2024) · Spain: 14.9% (2024)

Spain’s price level (US = 100) is 1.5× Romania’s

Romania: 44% (2025) · Spain: 65% (2025)

Spain spends 3 times as much on health per person as Romania

Romania: $1,051 (2023) · Spain: $3,107 (2023)

A baby in Romania is 2.3 times as likely to die before turning one as in Spain

Romania: 6 per 1,000 (2024) · Spain: 2.6 per 1,000 (2024)

Spain has 18% more doctors per person than Romania

Romania: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Spain: 4.3 per 1,000 (2022)

Romania has 2.5 times as many hospital beds per person as Spain

Romania: 7.2 per 1,000 (2022) · Spain: 2.9 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Romania is 15% higher than in Spain

Romania: 8.2 per 100k (2023) · Spain: 7.1 per 100k (2023)

38% of adults in Romania are obese, versus 19% in Spain

Romania: 37.7% (2024) · Spain: 18.9% (2024)

30% of adults in Romania smoke, versus 28% in Spain

Romania: 29.7% (2024) · Spain: 27.6% (2024)

People in Romania rate their lives 0.09 points higher than in Spain

Romania: 6.63 (2025) · Spain: 6.54 (2025)

Adults in Romania drink 41% more alcohol than in Spain

Romania: 17.1 litres (2023) · Spain: 12.1 litres (2023)

Spain has 39% more meat per person than Romania

Romania: 72.5 kg (2023) · Spain: 100.8 kg (2023)

Romania has 272 kcal more food per person per day than Spain

Romania: 3,649 kcal (2023) · Spain: 3,377 kcal (2023)

Workers in Romania put in 188 more hours a year than in Spain

Romania: 1,826 hours (2023) · Spain: 1,638 hours (2023)

Adults in Romania went to school 0.79 years longer than in Spain

Romania: 11.6 years (2023) · Spain: 10.8 years (2023)

Spain welcomed 2.7 times as many tourists per resident as Romania (2019)

Romania: 0.7 (2024) · Spain: 1.92 (2024)

Spain has 39 more World Heritage sites than Romania (50 against 11)

Romania: 11 (2026) · Spain: 50 (2026)

Romania has won 318 Olympic medals, Spain 195

Romania: 318 (2026 edition) · Spain: 195 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Spain are online, versus 91% in Romania

Romania: 91% (2024) · Spain: 96% (2024)

Home internet in Spain is 2% faster than in Romania

Romania: 316 Mbps (2026) · Spain: 324 Mbps (2026)

Romania and Spain are practically level

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

81% of people in Spain live in cities, versus 52% in Romania

Romania: 52% (2025) · Spain: 81% (2025)

Spain has 130 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Romania 120

Romania: 120 (2024) · Spain: 130 (2024)

Spain’s railway network is 48% longer than Romania’s

Romania: 10,769 km (2021) · Spain: 15,963 km (2021)

Airlines from Spain fly 13 times as many passengers per resident as those from Romania

Romania: 0.15 (2023) · Spain: 1.91 (2023)

Forest covers 38% of Spain, but only 30% of Romania

Romania: 30.2% (2024) · Spain: 38.2% (2024)

The average person in Spain emits 28% more CO₂ than someone in Romania

Romania: 3.6 t (2024) · Spain: 4.6 t (2024)

56% of Spain’s electricity is renewable, versus 47% in Romania

Romania: 47% (2025) · Spain: 55.9% (2025)

The air in Romania carries 43% more fine dust than in Spain

Romania: 14.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Spain: 10 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 62% more likely to be murdered in Romania than in Spain

Romania: 1.1 per 100k (2024) · Spain: 0.7 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Romania are 2.2 times as deadly as in Spain

Romania: 13.6 per 100k (2023) · Spain: 6.2 per 100k (2023)

Spain is on average 3.8 °C warmer than Romania

Romania: 11°C (2016–2025 avg) · Spain: 14.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Romania gets 14% more rain than Spain

Romania: 758 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Spain: 665 mm (2016–2025 avg)