Country comparison Ivory Coast : United States

General information

	Ivory Coast	United States
Region:	Western Africa	North America
Area:	322,460 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	French	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1960 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Yamoussoukro	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Ivory Coast	United States
Population:	25,717,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	79.8	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 56 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 59 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 19.0 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	35.74 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	10.05 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.21 ‰	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)

	Ivory Coast	United States
Political stability:	51	72
Civil rights:	37	83
Health:	12	74
Climate:	47	64
Cost of Living:	57	34
Popularity:	35	86

Economy

	Ivory Coast	United States
Currency:	West African Franc	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	3.5 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	-1.11 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	47.38 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	50.10 %	36.60 %
Average income:	2,290 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	36 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	CIV: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	58,539 M US$	2.28 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	58,971 M US$	2.29 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	13,043 M US$	0.51 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	12,934 M US$	0.50 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	CIV: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	81,996 km	3.19 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	660 km	0.03 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	980 km	0.04 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	15	0.001	3,673	0.011
Airports:	27	0.001	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	CIV: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	6.25 bn kWh	242,839.78 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	9.73 bn kWh	378,355.66 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	872.00 m kWh	33,908.13 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	19.00 m kWh	738.82 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	9.67 m t	376.16 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Ivory Coast	United States
International dialing:	+225	+1
Internet domain:	.ci	.us

	CIV total	CIV per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	271,724	11	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	37,376,600	1453	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	9,115	0	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	9,374,658	365	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Ivory Coast	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.40	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.23	2.59
Diabetes:	2.4 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.80 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	1.4 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	84.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	13.0 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Ivory Coast and United States

	Ivory Coast	United States
Daytime temperatures:	32.1 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.0 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	26.6 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	67 %
Rain days:	8.4	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.2	7.2

Native languages

	Ivory Coast	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Akan:	30.0 %	n/a
Gur:	11.7 %	n/a
Malinke:	11.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Kru:	10.5 %	n/a
Bambara:	8.4 %	n/a
South-Mande:	7.7 %	n/a
French:	2.1 %	0.7 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	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 %
other:	18.2 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Ivory Coast	United States
Christianity:	32.8 %	78.5 %
Islam:	38.6 %	1.1 %
nondenominational:	16.7 %	n/a
Native religions:	11.9 %	n/a
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 %