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 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Brussels	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Belgium	United States
Population:	11,556,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	378.5	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 41.6 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	10.10 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	9.50 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.58 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Belgium	United States
Political stability:	74	63
Civil rights:	87	81
Health:	88	71
Climate:	20	66
Cost of Living:	30	38
Popularity:	40	67

Economy

	Belgium	United States
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	6.4 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	2.44 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	98.19 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	55.40 %	36.60 %
Average income:	45,800 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	73 (good)	67 (moderate)

	BEL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	521,861 M US$	45.16 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	528,771 M US$	45.76 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	417,521 M US$	36.13 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	410,261 M US$	35.50 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	BEL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	118,414 km	10.25 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 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	0.017	3,627	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	7.11 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	79.83 bn kWh	6.91 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	8.47 bn kWh	732,520.09 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	14.65 bn kWh	1.27 m kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	93.47 m t	8,088.44 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 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:	3,634,639	315	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	11,529,728	998	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	5,192,000	449	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	10,576,538	915	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	4,734,210	410	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Belgium	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	5.58	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.32	2.59
Diabetes:	4.6 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	81.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	23.9 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Belgium and United States

	Belgium	United States
Daytime temperatures:	14.8 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.3 °C	7.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	82 %	67 %
Rain days:	10.6	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	4.7	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 %
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:	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 %