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:	38,928,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	59.6	33.5
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:	31.80 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	6.29 ‰	8.70 ‰
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:	17	68
Civil rights:	10	81
Health:	20	74
Climate:	61	62
Cost of Living:	100	16
Popularity:	64	72

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 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	24.64 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	71.40 %	36.60 %
Average income:	500 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	19 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	AFG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	19,807 M US$	0.51 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	19,564 M US$	0.50 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	1,476 M US$	0.04 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	6,983 M US$	0.18 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	AFG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	34,903 km	0.90 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 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	141,953.13 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	1.21 bn kWh	31,108.44 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	4.40 bn kWh	113,028.19 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	7.44 m t	191.12 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 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	3	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	22,580,071	580	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	223	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	5,255,326	135	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	26,570	1	120,531,000	366

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 %	0.20 %
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:	24.3 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	10.6 °C	7.2 °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
Balochi:	0.9 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
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 %