Country comparison Belgium : United States

General information

	Belgium	United States
Region:	Western Europe	North America
Area:	30,530 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Dutch	English
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic (under constitutional monarchy)	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1830 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Brussels	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Belgium	United States
Population:	11,484,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	376.2	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 84 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 41.6 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	10.30 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	10.70 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.58 ‰	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)

	Belgium	United States
Political stability:	71	72
Civil rights:	88	83
Health:	92	74
Climate:	21	64
Cost of Living:	31	34
Popularity:	50	86

Economy

	Belgium	United States
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	6.0 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	1.44 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	107.27 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	55.40 %	36.60 %
Average income:	48,030 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	76 (good)	67 (moderate)

	BEL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	533,097 M US$	46.42 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	551,596 M US$	48.03 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	436,298 M US$	37.99 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	433,045 M US$	37.71 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	BEL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	118,414 km	10.31 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	3,592 km	0.31 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	2,043 km	0.18 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	201	0.018	3,673	0.011
Airports:	41	0.004	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	BEL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	82.16 bn kWh	7.15 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	79.83 bn kWh	6.95 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	8.47 bn kWh	737,108.97 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	14.65 bn kWh	1.28 m kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	96.89 m t	8,436.87 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Belgium	United States
International dialing:	+32	+1
Internet domain:	.be	.us

	BEL total	BEL per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	3,930,410	342	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	11,509,600	1002	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	5,192,000	452	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	10,378,198	904	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Belgium	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	6.20	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.32	2.59
Diabetes:	4.6 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	82.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	25.0 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Belgium and United States

	Belgium	United States
Daytime temperatures:	14.9 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.2 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	82 %	67 %
Rain days:	10.7	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	4.6	7.2

Native languages

	Belgium	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Dutch:	54.2 %	n/a
French:	41.1 %	0.7 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Italian:	2.1 %	0.6 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
German:	0.7 %	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:	1.9 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Belgium	United States
Christianity:	75.0 %	78.5 %
Jewry:	0.3 %	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	24.7 %	15.3 %