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:	6,927,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	62.4	33.5
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:	8.80 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	15.50 ‰	8.70 ‰
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	67
Civil rights:	51	81
Health:	84	74
Climate:	46	62
Cost of Living:	62	35
Popularity:	41	72

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:	1.67 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	51.51 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	28.30 %	36.60 %
Average income:	9,540 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	44 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	BGR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	69,105 M US$	9.98 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	66,085 M US$	9.54 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	39,270 M US$	5.67 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	38,072 M US$	5.50 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	BGR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	19,512 km	2.82 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	5,114 km	0.74 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	470 km	0.07 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	81	0.012	3,652	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	4.67 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	42.29 bn kWh	6.10 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	9.19 bn kWh	1.33 m kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	4.57 bn kWh	659,421.12 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	41.13 m t	5,937.39 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 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:	975,355	141	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	8,134,581	1174	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	976,277	141	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	4,706,883	679	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	2,131,606	308	120,531,000	366

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 %	0.20 %
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:	17.9 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.3 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	13.3 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	75 %	67 %
Rain days:	6.4	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.3	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 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
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 %