Country comparison Brunei : United States

General information

	Brunei	United States
Region:	Southeast Asia	North America
Area:	5,770 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Malay	English
Government form:	Absolute monarchy/sultanate	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1984 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Bandar Seri Begawan	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Brunei	United States
Population:	437,483	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	75.8	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 75 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 77 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 30.5 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	14.46 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	4.55 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	2.22 ‰	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)

	Brunei	United States
Political stability:	86	74
Civil rights:	58	83
Health:	61	74
Climate:	39	63
Cost of Living:	67	16
Popularity:	39	72

Economy

	Brunei	United States
Currency:	Brunei Dollar (1 BND = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	8.4 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	1.94 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	54.26 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	8.00 %	36.60 %
Average income:	32,230 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	60 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	BRN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	12,016 M US$	27.47 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	13,966 M US$	31.92 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	7,828 M US$	17.89 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	6,806 M US$	15.56 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	BRN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	2,976 km	6.80 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Waterways:	209 km	0.48 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	102	0.233	3,652	0.011
Airports:	1	0.002	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	BRN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	3.77 bn kWh	8.62 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	4.01 bn kWh	9.18 m 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:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	7.14 m t	16,320.63 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Brunei	United States
International dialing:	+673	+1
Internet domain:	.bn	.us

	BRN total	BRN per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	86,590	198	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	574,799	1314	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	49,457	113	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	415,609	950	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	71,078	162	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Brunei	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.70	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.77	2.59
Diabetes:	13.3 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.6 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	77.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	15.5 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Brunei and United States

	Brunei	United States
Daytime temperatures:	31.7 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	24.5 °C	7.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	85 %	67 %
Rain days:	14.6	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.1	7.2

Native languages

	Brunei	United States
English:	3.1 %	82.1 %
Malay:	45.5 %	n/a
Malay-English:	28.8 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Chinese:	9.3 %	0.9 %
Hakka:	1.2 %	n/a
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:	12.1 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Brunei	United States
Islam:	78.8 %	1.1 %
Christianity:	8.7 %	78.5 %
Buddhism:	7.8 %	0.7 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
other:	4.7 %	15.3 %