Country comparison Democratic Republic of the Congo : United States

General information

	Congo (Dem. Republic)	United States
Region:	Central Africa	North America
Area:	2,344,860 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	French	English
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1960 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Kinshasa	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Congo (Dem. Republic)	United States
Population:	89,561,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	38.2	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 59 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 63 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 16.7 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	40.11 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	9.12 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.78 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Congo (Dem. Republic)	United States
Political stability:	32	63
Civil rights:	7	81
Health:	6	71
Climate:	54	66
Cost of Living:	59	38
Popularity:	36	67

Economy

	Congo (Dem. Republic)	United States
Currency:	Congolais Franc (1 CDF = 100 Centimes)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	5.4 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	2.89 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	31.59 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	50.70 %	36.60 %
Average income:	550 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	19 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	COD: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	48,717 M US$	0.54 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	49,306 M US$	0.55 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	13,932 M US$	0.16 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	14,557 M US$	0.16 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	COD: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	152,373 km	1.70 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Railways:	3,641 km	0.04 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	15,000 km	0.17 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	22	0.000	3,627	0.011
Airports:	198	0.002	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	COD: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	7.43 bn kWh	82,959.84 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	9.05 bn kWh	101,003.33 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.35 m kWh
Energy export:	422.00 m kWh	4,711.85 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:	20.00 m kWh	223.31 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	2.20 m t	24.56 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 t

Telecommunication

	Congo (Dem. Republic)	United States
International dialing:	+242	+1
Internet domain:	.cd	.us

	COD total	COD per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Mobile cellulars:	40,798,396	456	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	2,515	0	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	11,195,176	125	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	31,000	0	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Congo (Dem. Republic)	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.80	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.09	2.59
Diabetes:	6.0 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.21 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	3.2 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	92.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	12.8 %	23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Congo (Dem. Republic) and United States

	Congo (Dem. Republic)	United States
Daytime temperatures:	30.2 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	20.0 °C	7.1 °C
Rel. humidity:	80 %	67 %
Rain days:	8.8	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.6	7.2

Native languages

	Congo (Dem. Republic)	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Luba:	18.0 %	n/a
Kongo:	16.0 %	n/a
Mongo:	13.5 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Kinyarwanda:	10.3 %	n/a
Zande:	6.1 %	n/a
Ngala and Bangi:	5.8 %	n/a
French:	4.3 %	0.7 %
Rundi:	3.8 %	n/a
Teke:	2.7 %	n/a
Boa:	2.3 %	n/a
Chokwe:	1.8 %	n/a
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 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	15.4 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Congo (Dem. Republic)	United States
Christianity:	80.0 %	78.5 %
Islam:	10.0 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	10.0 %	15.3 %