General information
Germany | United States | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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 | |
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International dialing: | +49 | +1 |
Internet domain: | .de | .us |
DEU total | DEU per 1000 inh. | USA total | USA per 1000 inh. | |
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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 | |
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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 StatesGermany | United States | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 % |