Bread
The German Bread Institute maintains a register of roughly 3,200 distinct German breads. The United States maintains no such register, which is its own kind of answer.
NineteenNil
Nineteen measures on which life is demonstrably better in Europe. Every number real. Every number chosen.
EUAverage across the 27 member states.
DEGermany, on every card, for Niclas.
USUnited States, to the same scale.
Full time
19:0
Nineteen fixtures, no reply. The United States led on none of them, which is precisely what happens when the opposition also picks the fixtures.
The other column
Where America wins
Short list, but not an empty one. A page that pretended otherwise would be worth less than this one.
Money
GDP per person and median household disposable income are both meaningfully higher in the United States. The average American earns more. This page is about what that money buys.
Air
Average fine particulate exposure is lower across the US than across the EU, where solid fuel heating in parts of central and eastern Europe pulls the average up.
Bandwidth
Average fixed broadband speeds run ahead of the EU average, and the largest software companies on earth are, without much argument, American.
The moon
Twelve people have walked on it. All twelve were American. There is no European figure for this row and there is not going to be one soon.
The petty round
Not statistics. Not scored, not sourced to any statistical agency, included purely because they are German.
The Autobahn
Around 70% of the German motorway network carries no general speed limit. The highest posted limit anywhere in America is 85 mph, on one toll road in Texas. Germany still kills fewer drivers.
Tipping
Expected gratuity in Germany: round up, if the service was good. Expected in America: 20%, calculated before tax, requested by an iPad that has swivelled to face you.
Not admissible in argument