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 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
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 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 79 years	Ø 81 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)
Visit also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life (in german only)

	Dominica	United States
Political stability:	65	67
Civil rights:	64	81
Health:	51	74
Cost of Living:	54	35
Popularity:	20	72

Economy

	Dominica	United States
Currency:	East Caribbean Dollar (1 XCD = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	23.0 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	1.50 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	75.40 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	32.60 %	36.60 %
Average income:	6,870 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	55 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	DMA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	470 M US$	6.53 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	495 M US$	6.87 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	162 M US$	2.25 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	431 M US$	5.99 M US$	2,808,955 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:	98	1.361	3,652	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	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	75,771	1053	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	723	10	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	50,120	696	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	11,514	160	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Dominica	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.80	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.08	2.59
Diabetes:	11.6 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.2 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	100.0 %	79.0 %

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 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	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 %