Country comparison Germany : United States

General information

	Germany	United States
Region:	Western Europe	North America
Area:	357,580 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	German	English
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1955 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Berlin	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Germany	United States
Population:	83,133,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	232.5	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 45.5 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	9.50 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	11.50 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.50 ‰	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)

	Germany	United States
Political stability:	82	72
Civil rights:	95	83
Health:	96	74
Climate:	21	64
Cost of Living:	44	34
Popularity:	52	86

Economy

	Germany	United States
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.3 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	1.45 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	100.00 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	48.80 %	36.60 %
Average income:	48,580 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	80 (good)	67 (moderate)

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	3,861,124 M US$	46.45 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	4,038,526 M US$	48.58 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	1,811,351 M US$	21.79 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	1,587,197 M US$	19.09 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	625,000 km	7.52 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	33,590 km	0.40 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	7,467 km	0.09 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	609	0.007	3,673	0.011
Airports:	539	0.006	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	536.50 bn kWh	6.45 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	612.80 bn kWh	7.37 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	78.86 bn kWh	948,602.73 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	28.34 bn kWh	340,900.35 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	727.97 m t	8,756.75 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Germany	United States
International dialing:	+49	+1
Internet domain:	.de	.us

	DEU total	DEU per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	40,400,000	486	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	107,200,000	1290	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	20,043,000	241	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	73,268,677	881	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Germany	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	8.30	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.21	2.59
Diabetes:	10.4 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.06 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	71.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	28.0 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Germany and United States

	Germany	United States
Daytime temperatures:	13.8 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	5.6 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	9.9 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	79 %	67 %
Rain days:	9.9	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	4.7	7.2

Native languages

	Germany	United States
German:	90.1 %	0.6 %
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Russian:	3.6 %	0.2 %
Turkish:	2.6 %	n/a
South Slavic languages:	1.4 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
Italian:	0.7 %	0.6 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Greek:	0.4 %	n/a
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	0.3 %	0.3 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	0.9 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Germany	United States
Christianity:	58.5 %	78.5 %
nondenominational:	31.0 %	n/a
Islam:	4.7 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	0.1 %	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	0.1 %	1.0 %
Buddhism:	0.3 %	0.7 %
Yazidism:	0.3 %	n/a
other:	5.1 %	15.3 %