Country comparison Afghanistan : United States

General information

	Afghanistan	United States
Region:	South Asia	North America
Area:	652,860 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Pashto	English
Government form:	Presidential islamic republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1919 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Kabul	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Afghanistan	United States
Population:	38,042,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	58.3	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 63 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 66 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 16.5 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	32.49 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	6.42 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.10 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
Visit also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life (in german only)

	Afghanistan	United States
Political stability:	21	72
Civil rights:	12	83
Health:	18	74
Climate:	63	64
Cost of Living:	63	34
Popularity:	49	86

Economy

	Afghanistan	United States
Currency:	Afghani (1 AFN = 100 Puls)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	11.7 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	2.30 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	26.03 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	71.40 %	36.60 %
Average income:	530 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	19 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	AFG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	19,291 M US$	0.51 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	20,044 M US$	0.53 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	1,516 M US$	0.04 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	7,371 M US$	0.19 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	AFG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	34,903 km	0.92 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Waterways:	1,200 km	0.03 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Airports:	46	0.001	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	AFG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	5.53 bn kWh	145,261.44 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	1.21 bn kWh	31,833.44 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	4.40 bn kWh	115,662.39 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	8.67 m t	227.97 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Afghanistan	United States
International dialing:	+93	+1
Internet domain:	.af	.us

	AFG total	AFG per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	134,636	4	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	22,580,100	594	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	223	0	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	5,135,637	135	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Afghanistan	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.50	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.28	2.59
Diabetes:	9.2 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.08 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	1.9 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	91.0 %	79.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Afghanistan and United States

	Afghanistan	United States
Daytime temperatures:	24.4 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	10.6 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	51 %	67 %
Rain days:	3.5	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	8.6	7.2

Native languages

	Afghanistan	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Pashto:	52.4 %	n/a
Dari:	32.1 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Uzbek:	8.8 %	n/a
Turkmen:	1.9 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
Balochi:	0.9 %	n/a
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	3.9 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Afghanistan	United States
Islam:	99.0 %	1.1 %
Christianity:	n/a	78.5 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	1.0 %	15.3 %