Country comparison Belize : United States

General information

	Belize	United States
Region:	Central America	North America
Area:	22,970 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	English	English
Government form:	Parliamentary democracy (under constitutional monarchy)	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1981 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Belmopan	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Belize	United States
Population:	397,621	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	17.3	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 72 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 23.0 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	20.51 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	4.76 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.98 ‰	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)

	Belize	United States
Political stability:	64	68
Civil rights:	44	81
Health:	50	74
Climate:	50	62
Cost of Living:	47	16
Popularity:	30	72

Economy

	Belize	United States
Currency:	Belize Dollar (1 BZD = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	7.8 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	1.15 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	81.02 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	31.10 %	36.60 %
Average income:	3,970 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	29 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	BLZ: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,764 M US$	4.44 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	1,580 M US$	3.97 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	715 M US$	1.80 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	902 M US$	2.27 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	BLZ: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	3,281 km	8.25 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Waterways:	825 km	2.07 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	790	1.987	3,652	0.011
Airports:	47	0.118	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	BLZ: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	453.00 m kWh	1.14 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	280.00 m kWh	704,188.16 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	243.00 m kWh	611,134.72 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	680,000.00 t	1,710.17 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Belize	United States
International dialing:	+501	+1
Internet domain:	.bz	.us

	BLZ total	BLZ per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	18,500	47	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	254,919	641	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	3,392	9	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	187,210	471	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	29,600	74	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Belize	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.30	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.13	2.59
Diabetes:	17.1 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.87 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.3 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	67.0 %	79.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Belize and United States

	Belize	United States
Daytime temperatures:	31.1 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	23.4 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	28.5 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	90 %	67 %
Rain days:	9.8	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.0	7.2

Native languages

	Belize	United States
English:	3.9 %	82.1 %
Spanish:	46.0 %	10.7 %
Creole:	32.9 %	n/a
Mayan languages:	8.9 %	n/a
Garifuna:	3.4 %	n/a
German:	3.3 %	0.6 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Italian:	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:	1.6 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Belize	United States
Christianity:	73.3 %	78.5 %
nondenominational:	15.5 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	11.2 %	15.3 %