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 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Nicosia	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Cyprus	United States
Population:	1,207,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	130.5	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 37.9 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	10.24 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	7.10 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	7.29 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Cyprus	United States
Political stability:	70	63
Civil rights:	68	81
Health:	77	71
Climate:	75	66
Cost of Living:	53	38
Popularity:	54	67

Economy

	Cyprus	United States
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	6.1 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	-0.64 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	78.44 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	22.40 %	36.60 %
Average income:	26,440 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	53 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	CYP: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	24,613 M US$	20.39 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	23,640 M US$	19.58 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	18,723 M US$	15.51 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	19,341 M US$	16.02 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	CYP: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	19,901 km	16.48 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Harbours:	1,051	0.870	3,627	0.011
Airports:	15	0.012	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	CYP: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	4.36 bn kWh	3.61 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	4.62 bn kWh	3.82 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	7.23 m t	5,988.27 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 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:	311,439	258	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	1,230,706	1019	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	252,013	209	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	1,096,309	908	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	332,080	275	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Cyprus	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.40	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.95	2.59
Diabetes:	9.0 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	28.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	35.5 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Cyprus and United States

	Cyprus	United States
Daytime temperatures:	25.6 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	15.1 °C	7.2 °C
Rain days:	3.0	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	9.1	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 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Turkish:	0.2 %	n/a
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	6.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Cyprus	United States
Christianity:	94.0 %	78.5 %
Islam:	1.8 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
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 %