Country comparison China : United States

General information

	China	United States
Region:	East Asia	North America
Area:	9,562,910 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Chinese	English
Government form:	People's republic (communist one-party system)	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1523 v.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Beijing	Washington, D.C.

Population

	China	United States
Population:	1,402,112,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	146.6	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 75 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 79 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 37.4 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	10.50 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	7.10 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.43 ‰	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)

	China	United States
Political stability:	65	67
Civil rights:	36	81
Health:	66	74
Climate:	52	62
Cost of Living:	38	35
Popularity:	75	72

Economy

	China	United States
Currency:	Renminbi Yuan (1 CNY = 100 Fen)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	5.0 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	2.42 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	67.72 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	59.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	10,610 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	42 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	14,722,731 M US$	10.50 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	14,880,745 M US$	10.61 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	2,732,365 M US$	1.95 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	2,362,692 M US$	1.69 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	4,960,600 km	3.54 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	131,000 km	0.09 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	110,000 km	0.08 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	6,197	0.004	3,652	0.011
Airports:	507	0.000	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	5,564.00 bn kWh	3.97 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	5,883.00 bn kWh	4.20 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	18.91 bn kWh	13,486.80 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	6.19 bn kWh	4,411.20 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	10.31 bn t	7,355.66 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	China	United States
International dialing:	+86	+1
Internet domain:	.cn	.us

	CHN total	CHN per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	191,033,000	136	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	1,746,238,000	1245	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	20,602,000	15	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	761,346,816	543	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	483,550,000	345	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	China	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	4.20	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.79	2.59
Diabetes:	9.2 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.6 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	94.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	24.7 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: China and United States

	China	United States
Daytime temperatures:	19.6 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	10.1 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	18.0 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	67 %
Rain days:	6.3	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.6	7.2

Native languages

	China	United States
Chinese:	92.0 %	0.9 %
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Hakka:	1.8 %	n/a
Zhuang:	1.4 %	n/a
Mantšu:	0.9 %	n/a
Hui:	0.8 %	n/a
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Yi:	0.6 %	n/a
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Uighur:	0.6 %	n/a
Tujia:	0.5 %	n/a
Tibetan:	0.4 %	n/a
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Mongolian:	0.4 %	n/a
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Puyi:	0.2 %	n/a
Dong:	0.2 %	n/a
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	0.2 %	2.6 %

Religions

	China	United States
Christianity:	2.3 %	78.5 %
nondenominational:	58.5 %	n/a
Local chinese beliefs:	17.5 %	n/a
Buddhism:	6.2 %	0.7 %
Taoism:	4.4 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Islam:	1.7 %	1.1 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	0.1 %	1.0 %
other:	9.3 %	15.3 %