Country comparison Cyprus : United States

General information

	Cyprus	United States
Region:	Western Asia	North America
Area:	9,250 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Greek	English
Government form:	Presidential democracy	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1960 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Nicosia	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Cyprus	United States
Population:	1,199,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	129.6	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 35.2 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	10.46 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	7.02 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	7.29 ‰	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)

	Cyprus	United States
Political stability:	73	73
Civil rights:	72	83
Health:	76	74
Climate:	77	64
Cost of Living:	47	13
Popularity:	57	86

Economy

	Cyprus	United States
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	7.2 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	0.25 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	84.66 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	22.40 %	36.60 %
Average income:	27,710 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	57 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	CYP: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	24,949 M US$	20.82 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	24,629 M US$	20.55 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	17,922 M US$	14.95 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	18,195 M US$	15.18 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	CYP: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	19,901 km	16.60 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Harbours:	1,039	0.867	3,673	0.011
Airports:	15	0.013	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	CYP: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	4.36 bn kWh	3.63 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	4.62 bn kWh	3.85 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	6.63 m t	5,528.46 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Cyprus	United States
International dialing:	+357	+1
Internet domain:	.cy	.us

	CYP total	CYP per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	323,914	270	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	1,243,150	1037	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	252,013	210	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	1,031,537	861	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Cyprus	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.40	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.95	2.59
Diabetes:	9.0 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	59.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	36.7 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Cyprus and United States

	Cyprus	United States
Daytime temperatures:	25.5 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	15.1 °C	7.3 °C
Rain days:	2.9	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	9.2	7.2

Native languages

	Cyprus	United States
English:	4.1 %	82.1 %
Greek:	80.9 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Romanian:	2.9 %	n/a
Russian:	2.5 %	0.2 %
Bulgarian:	2.2 %	n/a
Arabic:	1.2 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
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 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Turkish:	0.2 %	n/a
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	6.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Cyprus	United States
Christianity:	94.0 %	78.5 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Islam:	1.8 %	1.1 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Buddhism:	1.0 %	0.7 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
nondenominational:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.6 %	15.3 %