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 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Bandar Seri Begawan	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Brunei	United States
Population:	437,483	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	75.8	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 75 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 77 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 31.1 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	14.08 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	4.66 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	2.22 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Brunei	United States
Political stability:	86	63
Civil rights:	63	81
Health:	61	71
Climate:	45	66
Cost of Living:	71	38
Popularity:	38	67

Economy

	Brunei	United States
Currency:	Brunei Dollar (1 BND = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	7.7 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	1.94 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	50.37 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	8.00 %	36.60 %
Average income:	31,510 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	60 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	BRN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	12,006 M US$	27.44 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	13,785 M US$	31.51 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	6,886 M US$	15.74 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	6,382 M US$	14.59 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	BRN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	2,976 km	6.80 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Waterways:	209 km	0.48 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	96	0.219	3,627	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	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	4.01 bn kWh	9.18 m 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:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	7.14 m t	16,320.63 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 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:	103,885	237	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	526,732	1204	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	49,457	113	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	415,609	950	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	71,078	162	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Brunei	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.85	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.77	2.59
Diabetes:	13.3 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.8 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	75.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	16.2 %	23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Brunei and United States

	Brunei	United States
Daytime temperatures:	31.7 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	24.5 °C	7.1 °C
Rel. humidity:	85 %	67 %
Rain days:	14.8	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 %