Country Comparison Builder

Our country tools each answer one question for many countries. This builder turns them around: choose the countries you care about, choose the questions, and read the answers side by side in one grid.

You bring: Two or more countries, and the questions you want answered
You get: One grid you can read across, share as a link and, with All-Access, download or print

Use the builder ↓

Your workbench

1. Choose the countries (3 of 3)

Free: up to 3 countries at a time. All-Access opens up to 8 countries, a CSV download and printing.

CSV download and printing come with All-Access.

	Spain	India	United States
Legal family	Civil law	Common law	Common law
Age of majority	18 years	18 years	18 years *
Minimum age to marry	18 years *	18 years *	Varies
Youngest age to drive a car alone	18 years	18 years	16 years
May citizens hold a second nationality?	In some cases only	Not allowed, or lost on taking another	Allowed
Default property regime between spouses	Varies by region	Personal law	Varies by region
Who inherits with no will (spouse and children)	Varies by region	Personal law	Varies by region

* The country’s own page notes an exception or a condition. Read it before relying on the figure.

The full pages behind the grid

Legal Families Atlas: Spain, India, United States
Legal Ages Around the World: Spain, India, United States
Driving Ages Around the World: Spain, India, United States
Dual Citizenship by Country: Spain, India, United States
Marital Property by Country: Spain, India, United States
Who Inherits When There Is No Will?: Spain, India, United States

How to use it

Step 1
Choose the countries
Type a country to add it, or start from a ready-made set such as the common-law countries or the Nordic countries.
Step 2
Choose the questions
Tick the questions you want, from legal ages to inheritance to data protection. Select a whole group at once if you like.
Step 3
Read across
Each row is one question and each column one country. Switch on ‘only the questions where the countries differ’ to see the contrasts at once.

What it is good for

Moving or marrying abroad

Put your country beside the new one and see, in one place, the legal ages, property rules between spouses and what happens to a family’s estate.

Cross-border work

A first orientation for a lawyer, a student or a business before the real research in each country’s own law begins.

Studying comparative law

Grids make the differences between legal families concrete, which is where many comparative questions are asked.

Questions

Where do the answers come from?

From the country tools on this site. Each cell is a short phrase taken from that country’s page in the tool named under the grid, and the grid links to the full page, with its sources and the date it was last checked.

What does ‘Not covered’ mean?

That the tool for that question has no entry for the country. It is not an answer. Some tools cover more countries than others.

What does the star mean?

That the country’s own page notes an exception or a condition behind the figure. Read it before relying on the number.

Is it legal advice?

No. It is a starting point for orientation. Laws change and a real situation depends on the facts, so check the current law of each country involved.

Is anything stored?

No. Your choice stays in your browser and in the address of the page, which you can copy to share the grid.

More builders

The Country Comparison Builder shows short, general answers taken from this site’s country tools. They describe the usual rule and are not legal advice, are not checked against every recent change and do not apply the law to anyone’s facts. Always check the current law of each country involved.