Country comparison Dominica : United States

General information

	Dominica	United States
Region:	Caribbean	North America
Area:	750 km²	9,831,510 km²
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1978 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Roseau	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Dominica	United States
Population:	71,991	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	96.0	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 75 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 79 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 34.9 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	9.60 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	9.60 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-5.31 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Dominica	United States
Political stability:	65	63
Civil rights:	64	81
Health:	51	71
Cost of Living:	54	38
Popularity:	20	67

Economy

	Dominica	United States
Currency:	East Caribbean Dollar (1 XCD = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	23.0 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	0.52 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	64.24 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	32.60 %	36.60 %
Average income:	7,270 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	55 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	DMA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	504 M US$	7.00 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	523 M US$	7.27 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	95 M US$	1.32 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	279 M US$	3.87 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	DMA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,512 km	21.00 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Harbours:	93	1.292	3,627	0.011
Airports:	2	0.028	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	DMA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	103.60 m kWh	1.44 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	111.40 m kWh	1.55 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:	180,000.00 t	2,500.31 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Dominica	United States
International dialing:	+1809	+1
Internet domain:	.dm	.us

	DMA total	DMA per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	2,660	37	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	75,771	1053	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	723	10	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	50,120	696	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	16,000	222	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Dominica	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.80	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.08	2.59
Diabetes:	11.6 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.5 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	100.0 %	75.0 %

Native languages

	Dominica	United States
Creole-English:	100.0 %	n/a
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
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 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	0.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Dominica	United States
Christianity:	91.3 %	78.5 %
Nondenominational:	6.1 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Rastafari:	1.3 %	n/a
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	1.3 %	15.3 %