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

Population

	Germany	United States
Population:	83,241,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	232.8	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 47.8 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	9.40 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	11.30 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.50 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Germany	United States
Political stability:	85	67
Civil rights:	94	81
Health:	96	73
Climate:	21	62
Cost of Living:	42	35
Popularity:	45	72

Economy

	Germany	United States
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.3 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	0.51 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	100.00 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	48.80 %	36.60 %
Average income:	47,470 US$	64,550 US$
Corruption index:	80 (good)	67 (moderate)

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	3,846,414 M US$	46.21 M US$	20,893,746 M US$	63.41 M US$
Gross national product:	3,951,308 M US$	47.47 M US$	21,266,806 M US$	64.55 M US$
Exported goods:	1,671,823 M US$	20.08 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	1,450,319 M US$	17.42 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	625,000 km	7.51 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	33,422 km	0.40 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	7,467 km	0.09 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	607	0.007	3,652	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	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	612.80 bn kWh	7.36 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	78.86 bn kWh	947,375.09 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	28.34 bn kWh	340,459.17 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	709.54 m t	8,523.97 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 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:	38,300,000	460	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	107,500,000	1291	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	20,043,000	241	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	74,760,764	898	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	36,040,739	433	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Germany	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	8.00	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.21	2.59
Diabetes:	10.4 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.06 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	69.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	28.0 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Germany and United States

	Germany	United States
Daytime temperatures:	13.7 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	5.5 °C	7.2 °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 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Italian:	0.7 %	0.6 %
Greek:	0.4 %	n/a
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	0.3 %	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
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 %