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:	26,378,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	81.8	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 57 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 59 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 19.0 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	35.46 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	9.87 ‰	8.70 ‰
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:	47	68
Civil rights:	37	83
Health:	11	74
Climate:	46	63
Cost of Living:	57	35
Popularity:	38	72

Economy

	Ivory Coast	United States
Currency:	West African Franc	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	3.5 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	2.43 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	45.13 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	50.10 %	36.60 %
Average income:	2,280 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	36 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	CIV: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	61,349 M US$	2.33 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	60,197 M US$	2.28 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	13,791 M US$	0.52 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	12,881 M US$	0.49 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	CIV: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	81,996 km	3.11 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 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:	25	0.001	3,652	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	236,747.85 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	9.73 bn kWh	368,864.15 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	872.00 m kWh	33,057.51 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	19.00 m kWh	720.29 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	9.91 m t	375.69 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 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	10	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	37,376,603	1417	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	9,115	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	9,615,881	365	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	260,097	10	120,531,000	366

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:	0.37 %	0.20 %
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:	32.2 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.0 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	26.6 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	67 %
Rain days:	8.3	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 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
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 %