Country comparison Central African Republic : United States

General information

	Central Africa	United States
Region:	Central Africa	North America
Area:	622,980 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	French	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1960 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Bangui	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Central Africa	United States
Population:	4,830,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	7.8	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 51 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 56 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 20.0 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	35.09 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	11.97 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-3.28 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Central Africa	United States
Political stability:	30	60
Civil rights:	10	81
Health:	0	71
Climate:	51	66
Cost of Living:	53	23
Popularity:	33	67

Economy

	Central Africa	United States
Currency:	Central African Franc	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	6.6 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	2.30 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	55.94 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	73.30 %	36.60 %
Average income:	500 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	24 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	CAF: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,380 M US$	0.49 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	2,412 M US$	0.50 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	179 M US$	0.04 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	244 M US$	0.05 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	CAF: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	24,000 km	4.97 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Waterways:	2,800 km	0.58 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Airports:	39	0.008	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	CAF: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	159.40 m kWh	33,003.68 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	171.40 m kWh	35,488.28 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:	330,000.00 t	68.33 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Central Africa	United States
International dialing:	+236	+1
Internet domain:	.cf	.us

	CAF total	CAF per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	2,193	0	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	1,595,294	330	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	20	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	209,576	43	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	499	0	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Central Africa	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.00	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.06	2.59
Diabetes:	6.0 %	10.8 %
HIV:	2.00 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	5.4 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	81.0 %	75.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Central Africa and United States

	Central Africa	United States
Daytime temperatures:	32.4 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	20.0 °C	7.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	73 %	67 %
Rain days:	9.9	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.7	7.2

Native languages

	Central Africa	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Gbaya:	23.8 %	n/a
Banda:	23.5 %	n/a
Mandjia:	14.8 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Ngbaka:	7.5 %	n/a
French:	7.5 %	0.7 %
Sango:	7.3 %	n/a
Sara:	6.4 %	n/a
Mbum:	6.4 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	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:	2.8 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Central Africa	United States
Christianity:	50.0 %	78.5 %
Native religions:	35.0 %	n/a
Islam:	15.0 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	0.0 %	15.3 %