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

Population

	Bulgaria	United States
Population:	6,934,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	62.5	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 70 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 43.7 years	Ø 38.5 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)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Bulgaria	United States
Political stability:	67	63
Civil rights:	51	81
Health:	81	71
Climate:	50	66
Cost of Living:	63	38
Popularity:	40	67

Economy

	Bulgaria	United States
Currency:	Bulgarian Lev (1 BGN = 100 Stotinki)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	5.4 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	3.30 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	47.42 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	28.30 %	36.60 %
Average income:	9,630 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	42 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	BGR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	69,889 M US$	10.08 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	66,792 M US$	9.63 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	39,417 M US$	5.68 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	38,199 M US$	5.51 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	BGR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	19,512 km	2.81 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	4,030 km	0.58 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	470 km	0.07 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	79	0.011	3,627	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	4.66 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	1.32 m kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	4.57 bn kWh	658,781.38 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	41.13 m t	5,931.63 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:	872,323	126	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	7,945,739	1146	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	976,277	141	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	4,865,077	702	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	2,115,053	305	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Bulgaria	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	7.45	2.87
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:	82.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	39.4 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Bulgaria and United States

	Bulgaria	United States
Daytime temperatures:	18.1 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.6 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	13.3 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	74 %	67 %
Rain days:	6.3	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 %
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:	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 %