Country comparison China : Russia

General information

	China	Russia
Region:	East Asia	Eastern Europe
Area:	9,562,910 km²	17,098,250 km²
Official language:	Chinese	Russian
Government form:	People's republic (communist one-party system)	Federal republic
Independent since:	1523 BC	1991 AD
Capital:	Beijing	Moscow

Population

	China	Russia
Population:	1,412,360,000	143,446,000
Inhabitants/km²:	147.7	8.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 75 years	Ø 66 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 79 years	Ø 76 years
Average age:	Ø 38.4 years	Ø 40.3 years
Birthrate:	8.52 ‰	9.80 ‰
Deathrate:	7.07 ‰	14.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.11 ‰	1.70 ‰

Quality of life

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

	China	Russia
Political stability:	69	47
Civil rights:	37	26
Health:	67	74
Climate:	56	33
Cost of Living:	38	62
Popularity:	57	42

Economy

	China	Russia
Currency:	Renminbi Yuan (1 CNY = 100 Fen)	Russian Rubel (1 RUB =100 Kopeken)
Unemployment rate:	4.8 %	5.0 %
Inflation rate:	0.98 %	6.69 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	63.16 %	36.87 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	59.20 %	46.20 %
Average income:	11,890 US$	11,600 US$
Corruption index:	55 (bad)	71 (very bad)

	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.	RUS: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	17,734,063 M US$	12.56 M US$	1,775,800 M US$	12.38 M US$
Gross national product:	16,789,239 M US$	11.89 M US$	1,692,598 M US$	11.80 M US$
Exported goods:	3,554,296 M US$	2.52 M US$	549,773 M US$	3.83 M US$
Imported goods:	3,091,488 M US$	2.19 M US$	379,471 M US$	2.65 M US$

Infrastructure

	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.	RUS: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	4,960,600 km	3.51 km	1,283,387 km	8.95 km
Railways:	68,141 km	0.05 km	85,494 km	0.60 km
Waterways:	110,000 km	0.08 km	102,000 km	0.71 km
Harbours:	6,662	0.005	2,873	0.020
Airports:	507	0.000	1,218	0.008

Energy balance

	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.	RUS: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	5,564.00 bn kWh	3.94 m kWh	909.60 bn kWh	6.34 m kWh
Energy production:	5,883.00 bn kWh	4.17 m kWh	1,031.00 bn kWh	7.19 m kWh
Energy export:	18.91 bn kWh	13,388.94 kWh	13.13 bn kWh	91,532.66 kWh
Energy imports:	6.19 bn kWh	4,379.20 kWh	3.19 bn kWh	22,266.21 kWh
CO2 emissions:	10.71 bn t	7,581.08 t	1.70 bn t	11,876.17 t

Telecommunication

	China	Russia
International dialing:	+86	+7
Internet domain:	.cn	.ru

	CHN total	CHN per 1000 inh.	RUS total	RUS per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	181,908,000	129	25,892,405	181
Mobile cellulars:	1,718,411,000	1217	238,733,217	1664
Internet server:	20,602,000	15	14,865,000	104
Internet users:	994,368,886	704	121,921,506	850
Broadband Internet:	483,549,500	342	33,893,305	236

Healthcare system

	China	Russia
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	4.31	7.12
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.79	4.01
Diabetes:	9.2 %	6.1 %
Tuberculosis:	0.6 %	0.5 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	94.0 %	68.0 %
Smokers:	25.6 %	26.8 %

Climate

Detailed info for: China and Russia

	China	Russia
Daytime temperatures:	19.5 °C	9.4 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	10.0 °C	0.1 °C
Water temperature:	18.0 °C	9.0 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	73 %
Rain days:	6.3	7.7
Sunshine hours per day:	5.6	5.5

Native languages

	China	Russia
Chinese:	92.0 %	n/a
Russian:	n/a	82.0 %
Dolgang:	n/a	5.3 %
Tatar:	n/a	3.0 %
Hakka:	1.8 %	n/a
German:	n/a	1.5 %
Zhuang:	1.4 %	n/a
Ukrainian:	n/a	1.3 %
Chechen:	n/a	1.0 %
Mantšu:	0.9 %	n/a
Chuvash:	n/a	0.9 %
Hui:	0.8 %	n/a
Bashkir:	n/a	0.7 %
Yi:	0.6 %	n/a
Uighur:	0.6 %	n/a
Tujia:	0.5 %	n/a
Mordva:	n/a	0.5 %
Avarianian:	n/a	0.4 %
Tibetan:	0.4 %	n/a
Kazakh:	n/a	0.4 %
Mari:	n/a	0.4 %
Mongolian:	0.4 %	n/a
Byelorussian:	n/a	0.3 %
Udmur:	n/a	0.3 %
Puyi:	0.2 %	n/a
Dong:	0.2 %	n/a
other:	0.2 %	2.0 %

Religions

	China	Russia
Christianity:	2.3 %	79.6 %
Nondenominational:	58.5 %	7.0 %
Local chinese beliefs:	17.5 %	n/a
Buddhism:	6.2 %	0.6 %
Taoism:	4.4 %	n/a
Islam:	1.7 %	4.0 %
Hinduism:	0.1 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	9.3 %	8.7 %