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:	1,397,715,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	146.2	33.4
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:	10.90 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	7.10 ‰	8.60 ‰
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:	61	73
Civil rights:	33	83
Health:	66	74
Climate:	53	64
Cost of Living:	61	13
Popularity:	77	86

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:	2.90 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	71.53 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	59.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	10,390 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	42 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	14,279,937 M US$	10.22 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	14,519,055 M US$	10.39 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	2,643,377 M US$	1.89 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	2,479,255 M US$	1.77 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	CHN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	4,960,600 km	3.55 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 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:	5,594	0.004	3,673	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	3.98 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	5,883.00 bn kWh	4.21 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	18.91 bn kWh	13,529.22 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	6.19 bn kWh	4,425.08 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	9.89 bn t	7,078.01 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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	137	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	1,725,700,000	1235	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	20,602,000	15	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	758,959,245	543	286,441,830	873

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:	19.5 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	9.9 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	18.0 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	67 %
Rain days:	6.2	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 %
Uighur:	0.6 %	n/a
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Yi:	0.6 %	n/a
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tujia:	0.5 %	n/a
Tibetan:	0.4 %	n/a
Mongolian:	0.4 %	n/a
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Puyi:	0.2 %	n/a
Dong:	0.2 %	n/a
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 %