ChinaandGermany

221 BCE · 18 January 1871

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

China

221 BCE — Qin Shi Huang completes the unification of China

Dossier →Chronicle →

Germany

18 January 1871 — The German Empire is proclaimed

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
41
Domains
9
Crossed events
0
Data through
2026-08-22

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

CHNDEU
  • GDP
    $19.50 T2025$5.05 T2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $13,8622025$60,4962025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    5.0%20250.2%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    0.1%20252.2%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    38.0%202578.5%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

CHNDEU
  • Population
    1.41 bn202583 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    78.0 yrs202480.8 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    66.3%202582.1%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    1.020241.42024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

CHNDEU

Health

CHNDEU
  • Health spending
    5.9%202312.3%2024
    Observed 2023 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    3.1120224.532022
    Observed 2022 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    5.720243.72024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    95.0%202496.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Safe drinking water
    —99.9%2024
    Observed — / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

CHNDEU
  • Adult literacy
    96.7%2020—
    Observed 2020 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Education spending
    3.9%20235.2%2022
    Observed 2023 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Primary enrolment
    99.6%2024102.6%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Secondary enrolment
    92.3%2012100.2%2024
    Observed 2012 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Tertiary enrolment
    76.9%202476.7%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Technology

CHNDEU
  • R&D spending
    2.6%20233.2%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    2,10720235,9262023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    91.6%202593.5%2024
    Observed 2025 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    13220241292024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    26.3%202418.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

CHNDEU
  • Land area
    9,388,210 km²2023349,430 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    24.0%202332.7%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    55.4%202347.5%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    9.320246.92024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    15.2%202117.6%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

CHNDEU
  • Resource rents
    1.7%20210.1%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.3%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    0.5%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    0.1%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    100.0%2024100.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Copper (mined)
    1.8 Mt2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Iron ore
    290 Mt2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Gold (mined)
    380 t2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Lithium (mined)
    62.0 kt2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Cobalt (mined)
    2,000 t2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Nickel (mined)
    120 kt2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Rare earths
    270 kt2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Bauxite
    87 Mt2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Zinc (mined)
    4.1 Mt2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Phosphate rock
    110 Mt2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded

Military

CHNDEU
  • Military burden
    1.7%20241.9%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $314 B2024$88 B2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    2.5 m2020183,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

Neither nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — across both archives, no recorded event crosses between them. That is a fact about the two records as they stand, not a gap filled here: this page reports what the archives hold, and holds nothing they do not.