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 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Brazzaville	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Congo	United States
Population:	5,381,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	15.7	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 63 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 66 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 18.8 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	32.86 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	6.71 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.90 ‰	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)

	Congo	United States
Political stability:	38	72
Civil rights:	13	83
Health:	25	74
Climate:	43	64
Cost of Living:	64	34
Popularity:	30	86

Economy

	Congo	United States
Currency:	Congolais Franc (1 CDF = 100 Centimes)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	10.3 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	2.21 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	20.29 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	54.30 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,720 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	19 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	COG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	12,267 M US$	2.28 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	9,249 M US$	1.72 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	4,596 M US$	0.85 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	7,286 M US$	1.35 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	COG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	23,324 km	4.33 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	510 km	0.09 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	1,120 km	0.21 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	11	0.002	3,673	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	169,500.72 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	1.70 bn kWh	315,211.87 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	22.00 m kWh	4,088.83 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	18.00 m kWh	3,345.41 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	3.28 m t	609.97 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	5,000,000	929	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	45	0	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	465,414	87	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Congo	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.60	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.12	2.59
Diabetes:	6.0 %	10.8 %
HIV:	2.50 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	3.7 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	62.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	16.1 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Congo and United States

	Congo	United States
Daytime temperatures:	30.6 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.0 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	83 %	67 %
Rain days:	8.3	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.0	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 %
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 %