GermanyandNetherlands

18 January 1871 · 1581

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

Germany

18 January 1871 — The German Empire is proclaimed

Dossier →Chronicle →

Netherlands

1581 — The Act of Abjuration renounces allegiance to Philip II of Spain

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
42
Domains
9
Crossed events
1
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

DEUNLD
  • GDP
    $5.05 T2025$1.33 T2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $60,4962025$73,6842025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    0.2%20251.8%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    2.2%20253.3%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    78.5%2025150.1%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

DEUNLD
  • Population
    83 m202518 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    80.8 yrs202482.0 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    82.1%202595.9%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    1.420241.42024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

DEUNLD

Health

DEUNLD
  • Health spending
    12.3%202410.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    4.5320223.882022
    Observed 2022 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    3.720243.92024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    96.0%202489.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Safe drinking water
    99.9%2024100.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

DEUNLD

Technology

DEUNLD
  • R&D spending
    3.2%20232.3%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    5,92620236,5632023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    93.5%202497.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    12920241292024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    18.0%202423.5%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

DEUNLD
  • Land area
    349,430 km²202333,670 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    32.7%202311.1%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    47.5%202353.5%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    6.920246.62024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    17.6%202112.2%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

DEUNLD
  • Resource rents
    0.1%20210.3%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.0%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    0.0%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    0.0%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    100.0%2024100.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Military

DEUNLD
  • Military burden
    1.9%20241.9%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $88 B2024$23 B2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    183,000202041,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 10 May 1940

    German invasion and occupation

    Nazi Germany invades the neutral Netherlands; after the bombing of Rotterdam the country surrenders, beginning five years of occupation.

    War & Rupture · from the Netherlands chronicle · The World Wars, Decolonisation and the Modern Netherlands · REFS 1 — The Netherlands (Holocaust Encyclopedia)