Country comparison Denmark : United States

General information

	Denmark	United States
Region:	Northern Europe	North America
Area:	42,920 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Danish	English
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	800 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Copenhagen	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Denmark	United States
Population:	5,831,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	135.9	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 80 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 84 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 42.0 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	10.40 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	9.40 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	2.74 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Denmark	United States
Political stability:	86	63
Civil rights:	100	81
Health:	85	71
Climate:	17	66
Cost of Living:	35	38
Popularity:	45	67

Economy

	Denmark	United States
Currency:	Danish Krone (1 DKK = 100 øre)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.8 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	1.85 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	121.06 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	23.80 %	36.60 %
Average income:	63,010 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	88 (good)	67 (moderate)

	DNK: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	356,085 M US$	61.06 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	367,414 M US$	63.01 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	195,729 M US$	33.56 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	172,868 M US$	29.64 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	DNK: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	74,558 km	12.79 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Railways:	3,476 km	0.60 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	400 km	0.07 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	717	0.123	3,627	0.011
Airports:	80	0.014	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	DNK: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	33.02 bn kWh	5.66 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	29.84 bn kWh	5.12 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.35 m kWh
Energy export:	9.92 bn kWh	1.70 m kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:	14.98 bn kWh	2.57 m kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	33.38 m t	5,724.18 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 t

Telecommunication

	Denmark	United States
International dialing:	+45	+1
Internet domain:	.dk	.us

	DNK total	DNK per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	937,469	161	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	7,144,123	1225	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	4,297,000	737	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	5,630,171	965	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	2,590,282	444	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Denmark	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.60	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.46	2.59
Diabetes:	8.3 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.04 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.0 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	45.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	17.5 %	23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Denmark and United States

	Denmark	United States
Daytime temperatures:	12.4 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	6.3 °C	7.1 °C
Water temperature:	9.1 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	82 %	67 %
Rain days:	9.5	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.0	7.2

Native languages

	Denmark	United States
Danish:	93.5 %	n/a
English:	0.3 %	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
Turkish:	0.8 %	n/a
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Arabic:	0.7 %	n/a
German:	0.5 %	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Norwegian:	0.3 %	n/a
Swedish:	0.3 %	n/a
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:	3.6 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Denmark	United States
Christianity:	86.3 %	78.5 %
Islam:	4.0 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	1.0 %	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	1.0 %	0.7 %
other:	7.7 %	15.3 %