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General information

 ChinaUnited States
Region:East AsiaNorth America
Area:9,562,910 km²9,831,510 km²
Official language:ChineseEnglish
Government form:People's republic (communist one-party system)Federal presidential republic
Independent since:1523 v.Chr.1776 n.Chr.
Capital:BeijingWashington, D.C.

Population

 ChinaUnited States
Population:1,402,112,000329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:146.633.5
Life expectancy males:Ø 75 yearsØ 76 years
Life expectancy females:Ø 79 yearsØ 81 years
Average age:Ø 37.4 yearsØ 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)

 ChinaUnited States
Political stability:6374
Civil rights:3383
Health:6674
Climate:5364
Cost of Living:6216
Popularity:7572

Economy

 ChinaUnited 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 km3.54 km6,586,610 km19.99 km
Railways:131,000 km0.09 km293,564 km0.89 km
Waterways:110,000 km0.08 km41,009 km0.12 km
Harbours:6,1970.0043,6730.011
Airports:5070.00013,5130.041

Energy balance

 CHN:
total		per 1000
inh.		USA:
total		per 1000
inh.
Energy consumption:5,564.00 bn kWh3.97 m kWh3,902.00 bn kWh11.84 m kWh
Energy production:5,883.00 bn kWh4.20 m kWh4,095.00 bn kWh12.43 m kWh
Energy export:18.91 bn kWh13,486.80 kWh9.70 bn kWh29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:6.19 bn kWh4,411.20 kWh72.72 bn kWh220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:10.31 bn t7,355.66 t4.98 bn t15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

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

 CHN
total		CHN
per 1000
inh.		USA
total		USA
per 1000
inh.
Landlines:191,033,000136107,281,000326
Mobile phones:1,725,700,0001231404,577,0001228
Internet server:20,602,00015505,000,0001533
Internet users:758,959,245541286,441,830869

Healthcare system

 ChinaUnited States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:4.202.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:1.792.59
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

 ChinaUnited States
Daytime temperatures:19.5 °C18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:9.9 °C7.3 °C
Water temperature:18.0 °C17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:68 %67 %
Rain days:6.27.1
Sunshine hours per day:5.67.2

Native languages

 ChinaUnited States
Chinese:92.0 %0.9 %
English:n/a82.1 %
Spanish:n/a10.7 %
Hakka:1.8 %n/a
Zhuang:1.4 %n/a
Mantšu:0.9 %n/a
Hui:0.8 %n/a
French:n/a0.7 %
Uighur:0.6 %n/a
German:n/a0.6 %
Yi:0.6 %n/a
Italian:n/a0.6 %
Tujia:0.5 %n/a
Tibetan:0.4 %n/a
Mongolian:0.4 %n/a
Tagalog:n/a0.4 %
Polish:n/a0.3 %
Korean:n/a0.3 %
Japanese:n/a0.2 %
Russian:n/a0.2 %
Portuguese:n/a0.2 %
Vietnamese:n/a0.2 %
Puyi:0.2 %n/a
Dong:0.2 %n/a
other:0.2 %2.6 %

Religions

 ChinaUnited 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/a1.8 %
Islam:1.7 %1.1 %
Sikhism:n/a1.6 %
Hinduism:0.1 %1.0 %
other:9.3 %15.3 %