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

Population

	Belize	United States
Population:	397,621	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	17.3	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 72 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 23.9 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	20.25 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	4.80 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.98 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Belize	United States
Political stability:	62	63
Civil rights:	44	81
Health:	50	71
Climate:	54	66
Cost of Living:	48	38
Popularity:	30	67

Economy

	Belize	United States
Currency:	Belize Dollar (1 BZD = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	8.2 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	1.15 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	73.28 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	31.10 %	36.60 %
Average income:	4,110 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	29 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	BLZ: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,636 M US$	4.12 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	1,632 M US$	4.11 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	715 M US$	1.80 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	902 M US$	2.27 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	BLZ: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	3,281 km	8.25 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Waterways:	825 km	2.07 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	813	2.045	3,627	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	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	280.00 m kWh	704,188.16 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.35 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:	243.00 m kWh	611,134.72 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	680,000.00 t	1,710.17 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 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	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	254,919	641	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	3,392	9	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	187,210	471	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	36,000	91	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Belize	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.04	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.13	2.59
Diabetes:	17.1 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.87 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.2 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	66.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	8.5 %	23.0 %

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:	6.9	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 %
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:	1.6 %	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 %