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Culture Stats: compare key data on Germany & Netherlands

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STAT Germany Netherlands HISTORY
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > All drinks 12.81
Ranked 23th. 27% more than Netherlands
10.05
Ranked 43th.
Food and drink > Beer consumption 8.79 billion L
Ranked 5th. 7 times more than Netherlands
1.22 billion L
Ranked 18th.
Food and drink > Cheese consumption per capita per year 22.9 kg
Ranked 4th. 18% more than Netherlands
19.4 kg
Ranked 9th.
Food and drink > Fast food > McDonalds > First outlet date November 22, 1971 August 21, 1971
Food and drink > Fast food > McDonalds > First outlet location Munich Zaandam
Food and drink > Fast food > McDonalds > First outlet notes First outlet in West Germany : outlets in the former East Germany opened in 1991. See McDonald's Germany First outlet in Europe . Plans to open 15 more in next 3 years. See McDonald's Netherlands
Happy Planet Index 47.2
Ranked 46th.
50.6
Ranked 43th. 7% more than Germany

Sexuality > Homosexuality > Anti-discrimination laws All All
Sexuality > Homosexuality > LGBT individual may petition to adopt a child Yes Yes
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Legality of homosexual acts Legal since 1969 (since 1968 in East Germany ) UN decl. sign. Legal since 1811 (as part of France) UN decl. sign.
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Recognition of gay relationships Yes (since 2001) Yes (since 1998)
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Same-sex adoption / Biological or successive step-child adoption only (full joint adoption proposed) Yes
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Same-sex marriage No (proposed) Yes (since 2001)
Smoking > Cigarettes per adult per year 1,045
Ranked 45th. 30% more than Netherlands
801
Ranked 66th.
World Heritage Sites 35
Ranked 3rd. 4 times more than Netherlands
8
Ranked 25th.
Food and drink > Fast food outlets > KFC > Year entered 1,968
Ranked 21st.
1,972
Ranked 19th. About the same as Germany
Food and drink > Milk consumption per capita 247.24 kg
Ranked 17th.
320.15 kg
Ranked 3rd. 29% more than Germany
Food and drink > Fast food outlets > KFC > Notes Struggled to reach 12 stores by 1995. 90 outlets by 2012. First branch was in Rotterdam . Headquarters are in Amsterdam-Zuidoost . There are 41 Dutch KFC restaurants.
Pets > Animal cropping (legal status) Banned Banned
Tobacco > Purchase age 18
Ranked 13th. The same as Netherlands
18
Ranked 78th.
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Beer 6.22
Ranked 7th. 32% more than Netherlands
4.72
Ranked 16th.
Food and drink > Alcohol > Litres of pure alcohol drunk per year 11.99
Ranked 7th. 24% more than Netherlands
9.68
Ranked 24th.
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Same-sex couple may jointly petition to adopt a child No (but the child adopted by one partner can later be adopted by the other as well) Yes
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Same-sex partner may petition to adopt partner's child Yes Yes
Sexuality > Homosexuality > Same-sex couples are allowed to foster or stepchild foster Yes Yes
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Homemade and illegal drinks 1
Ranked 94th. Twice as much as Netherlands
0.5
Ranked 148th.
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Spirits 2.3
Ranked 51st. 47% more than Netherlands
1.56
Ranked 75th.
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Wine 3.15
Ranked 22nd.
3.26
Ranked 21st. 3% more than Germany
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Other alcoholic drinks 0.0
Ranked 112th.
0.0
Ranked 183th.
Food and drink > Alcohol > Alcohol consumed from > Legal sources 11.81
Ranked 13th. 24% more than Netherlands
9.55
Ranked 36th.
Smoking > Tobacco vending machine legal status Sales prohibited to under 18s. Machines contain an electronic bank card/ID card reader to verify age of buyer. Sales prohibited to under 16s. Token issued at counter once the purchasers age has been verified.

SOURCES: Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation, 2011. p. 273 ff.; Per Capita Beer Consumption by Country in 2012, Kirin Holdings Company. Table 3.; Wikipedia: Cheese (Total cheese consumption per capita per year) ("Total and Retail Cheese Consumption – Kilograms per Capita" . Canadian Dairy Information Centre . Retrieved 2013-05-20 ., , Cidilait, ''Le fromage'', Cheese Consumption Continues to Rise); Wikipedia: List of countries with McDonald's restaurants (Countries and territories with a McDonald's outlet); http://www.happyplanetindex.org/data/; Wikipedia: LGBT rights by country or territory (Australasia); Wikipedia: LGBT adoption (European laws on adoption by same-sex couples); Wikipedia: LGBT rights by country or territory (Central Asia); Wikipedia: LGBT rights in Asia (Central Asia); Wikipedia: LGBT rights by country or territory (Central Europe); Wikipedia: List of countries by cigarette consumption per capita (List); Wikipedia: Table of World Heritage Sites by country (Table of World Heritage Sites); Wikipedia: List of countries with KFC franchises (Africa); Wikipedia: List of countries by milk consumption per capita ("Countries by milk consumption per capita" . "Countries by consumptions per capita" .); Wikipedia: Cropping (animal) (Status by country); Wikipedia: Smoking age; World Health Organization. Source tables; Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation, 2011. p. 273 ff.; Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation. p. 273 ff. ; Global status report on alcohol and health, World Health Organisation, 2011. p. 273 ff. ; Wikipedia: Cigarette machine (Tobacco vending machine prevalence by country) ("Japanese smokers to face age test" . BBC . 2008-12-06 . Retrieved 2008-03-07 .)

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