Country comparison Republic of the Congo : United States

General information

	Congo	United States
Region:	Central Africa	North America
Area:	342,000 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	French	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1960 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Brazzaville	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Congo	United States
Population:	5,518,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	16.1	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 63 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 66 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 19.5 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	32.40 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	6.61 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.90 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Congo	United States
Political stability:	30	63
Civil rights:	12	81
Health:	31	71
Climate:	45	66
Cost of Living:	43	38
Popularity:	35	67

Economy

	Congo	United States
Currency:	Congolais Franc (1 CDF = 100 Centimes)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	23.0 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	1.82 %	4.70 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	54.30 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,770 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	21 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	COG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	10,187 M US$	1.85 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	9,747 M US$	1.77 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	4,596 M US$	0.83 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	7,286 M US$	1.32 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	COG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	23,324 km	4.23 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	510 km	0.09 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	1,120 km	0.20 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	11	0.002	3,627	0.011
Airports:	27	0.005	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	COG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	912.00 m kWh	165,274.52 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	1.70 bn kWh	307,352.61 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	22.00 m kWh	3,986.89 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	18.00 m kWh	3,262.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	3.22 m t	583.54 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Congo	United States
International dialing:	+242	+1
Internet domain:	.cg	.us

	COG total	COG per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	17,000	3	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	5,000,000	906	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	45	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	477,315	87	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	1,000	0	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Congo	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.60	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.12	2.59
Diabetes:	6.0 %	10.8 %
HIV:	3.03 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	3.8 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	72.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	14.3 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Congo and United States

	Congo	United States
Daytime temperatures:	30.6 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.0 °C	7.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	83 %	67 %
Rain days:	8.3	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	4.9	7.2

Native languages

	Congo	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Kongo:	51.5 %	n/a
Teke:	17.3 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
French:	4.6 %	0.7 %
Punu:	2.9 %	n/a
Sango:	2.6 %	n/a
Mboshi:	2.4 %	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:	18.7 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Congo	United States
Christianity:	79.0 %	78.5 %
Nondenominational:	11.3 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	1.6 %	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	8.1 %	15.3 %