Country comparison Bulgaria : United States

General information

	Bulgaria	United States
Region:	Eastern Europe	North America
Area:	111,000 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Bulgarian	English
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1908 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Sofia	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Bulgaria	United States
Population:	6,976,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	62.8	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 72 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 79 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 43.0 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	8.90 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	15.40 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.29 ‰	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)

	Bulgaria	United States
Political stability:	69	72
Civil rights:	53	83
Health:	84	74
Climate:	49	64
Cost of Living:	63	34
Popularity:	38	86

Economy

	Bulgaria	United States
Currency:	Bulgarian Lev (1 BGN = 100 Stotinki)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	5.7 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	3.10 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	49.47 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	28.30 %	36.60 %
Average income:	9,570 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	44 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	BGR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	68,559 M US$	9.83 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	66,755 M US$	9.57 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	43,990 M US$	6.31 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	41,816 M US$	5.99 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	BGR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	19,512 km	2.80 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	5,114 km	0.73 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	470 km	0.07 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	83	0.012	3,673	0.011
Airports:	68	0.010	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	BGR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	32.34 bn kWh	4.64 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	42.29 bn kWh	6.06 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	9.19 bn kWh	1.32 m kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	4.57 bn kWh	654,838.95 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	41.71 m t	5,979.05 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Bulgaria	United States
International dialing:	+359	+1
Internet domain:	.bg	.us

	BGR total	BGR per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	972,255	139	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	8,134,580	1166	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	976,277	140	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	4,739,820	679	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Bulgaria	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	6.80	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.99	2.59
Diabetes:	6.0 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.08 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.2 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	86.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	38.9 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Bulgaria and United States

	Bulgaria	United States
Daytime temperatures:	18.0 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.1 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	13.4 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	74 %	67 %
Rain days:	6.6	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.2	7.2

Native languages

	Bulgaria	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Bulgarian:	76.8 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Turkish:	8.2 %	n/a
Romany:	3.8 %	n/a
Macedonian:	2.6 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
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:	8.6 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Bulgaria	United States
Christianity:	77.9 %	78.5 %
nondenominational:	11.8 %	n/a
Islam:	10.0 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	0.3 %	15.3 %