This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Egypt and United States. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life
The data for each country can be found here: Egypt and United States
Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Egypt
United States
General information
Egypt | United States | |
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Region: | Northern Africa | North America |
Area: | 1,001,450 km² | 9,831,510 km² |
National language: | Arabic | English |
Government form: | Presidential republic | Federal presidential republic |
Independent since: | 1922 AD | 1776 AD |
Capital: | Cairo | Washington, D.C. |
Population
Details for Egypt and the United StatesEgypt | United States | |
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Population: | 109,262,000 | 331,894,000 |
Inhabitants/km²: | 109.1 | 33.8 |
Life expectancy males: | Ø 69 years | Ø 75 years |
Life expectancy females: | Ø 73 years | Ø 80 years |
Average age: | Ø 24.1 years | Ø 38.5 years |
Birth rate: | 23.05 ‰ | 10.90 ‰ |
Death rate: | 5.85 ‰ | 10.30 ‰ |
Migrationrate: | -0.29 ‰ | 3.01 ‰ |
Quality of life
Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life
Egypt | United States | |
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Political stability: | 39 | 67 |
Civil rights: | 27 | 83 |
Health: | 41 | 71 |
Climate: | 66 | 66 |
Cost of Living: | 59 | 34 |
Popularity: | 44 | 71 |
Economy
Details for Egypt and the United StatesEgypt | United States | |
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Currency: | Egypt pound (1 EGP = 100 Piasters) | US dollar (1 USD =100 Cents) |
Unemployment rate: | 7.0 % | 3.6 % |
Inflation rate: | 13.90 % | 8.00 % |
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%) | 23.66 % | 100.00 % |
Commercial taxes and contributions: | 44.40 % | 36.60 % |
Average income: | 3,350 US$ | 70,930 US$ |
Corruption index: | 70 (very bad) | 31 (moderate) |
EGY: total | per 1000 inh. | USA: total | per 1000 inh. | |
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Gross domestic product: | 404,143 M US$ | 3.70 M US$ | 23,315,081 M US$ | 70.25 M US$ |
Gross national product: | 365,800 M US$ | 3.35 M US$ | 23,539,918 M US$ | 70.93 M US$ |
Exported goods: | 58,339 M US$ | 0.53 M US$ | 2,556,638 M US$ | 7.70 M US$ |
Imported goods: | 94,039 M US$ | 0.86 M US$ | 3,401,688 M US$ | 10.25 M US$ |
Infrastructure
Details for Egypt and the United StatesEGY: total | per 1000 inh. | USA: total | per 1000 inh. | |
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Roadways: | 65,050 km | 0.60 km | 6,586,610 km | 19.85 km |
Railways: | 5,085 km | 0.05 km | 293,564 km | 0.88 km |
Waterways: | 3,500 km | 0.03 km | 41,009 km | 0.12 km |
Harbours: | 421 | 0.0039 | 3,627 | 0.0109 |
Passenger airports: | 12 | 0.0001 | 436 | 0.0013 |
Energy balance
Details for Egypt and the United StatesEGY: total | per 1000 inh. | USA: total | per 1000 inh. | |
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Production capacity: | 524.08 bn kWh | 4.80 m kWh | 10.015 tn kWh | 30.18 m kWh |
Energy consumption: | 149.08 bn kWh | 1.36 m kWh | 3.898 tn kWh | 11.74 m kWh |
Energy production: | 182.99 bn kWh | 1.67 m kWh | 4.049 tn kWh | 12.20 m kWh |
Energy export: | 360.00 m kWh | 3,294.83 kWh | 14.13 bn kWh | 42,587.96 kWh |
Energy imports: | 74.00 m kWh | 677.27 kWh | 61.45 bn kWh | 185,146.19 kWh |
CO2 emissions: | 249.37 m t | 2,282.31 t | 4.82 bn t | 14,515.85 t |
Telecommunication
Details for Egypt and the United StatesEgypt | United States | |
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International dialing: | +20 | +1 |
Internet domain: | .eg | .us |
EGY total | EGY per 1000 inh. | USA total | USA per 1000 inh. | |
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Landlines: | 11,030,900 | 101 | 101,526,000 | 306 |
Mobile cellulars: | 103,449,734 | 947 | 351,477,000 | 1059 |
Internet server: | 200,430 | 2 | 505,000,000 | 1522 |
Internet users: | 78,575,022 | 719 | 301,691,414 | 909 |
Broadband Internet: | 10,835,865 | 99 | 125,885,000 | 379 |
Healthcare system
Details for Egypt and the United StatesEgypt | United States | |
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Hospital beds per 1000 inh.: | 1.43 | 2.87 |
Physicians per 1000 inh.: | 0.79 | 2.59 |
Diabetes: | 17.2 % | 10.8 % |
HIV: | 0.06 % | 0.20 % |
Tuberculosis: | 0.10 ‰ | 0.03 ‰ |
Tuberculosis cure rate: | 89.0 % | 74.0 % |
Smokers: | 24.3 % | 23.0 % |
Climate
We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.The data for each country can be found here: Egypt and United States
Egypt | United States | |
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Daytime temperatures: | 30.0 °C | 18.9 °C |
Nighttime temperatures: | 18.0 °C | 7.3 °C |
Water temperature: | 21.8 °C | 17.7 °C |
Rel. humidity: | 48 % | 67 % |
Rain days: | 0.7 | 7.1 |
Sunshine hours per day: | 9.5 | 7.2 |
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Egypt
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Native languages
Egypt | United States | |
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Arabic: | 98.8 % | n/a |
English: | n/a | 82.1 % |
Spanish: | n/a | 10.7 % |
Chinese: | n/a | 0.9 % |
Nubian: | 0.7 % | n/a |
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 % |
Russian: | n/a | 0.2 % |
Portuguese: | n/a | 0.2 % |
Japanese: | n/a | 0.2 % |
Domari: | 0.2 % | n/a |
Eskimo: | n/a | 0.0 % |
other: | 0.3 % | 2.6 % |
Religions
Egypt | United States | |
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State religion: | Sunni Islam | none |
Islam: | 90.0 % | 1.1 % |
Christianity: | 9.7 % | 78.5 % |
Jewry: | n/a | 1.8 % |
Sikhism: | n/a | 1.6 % |
Hinduism: | n/a | 1.0 % |
Buddhism: | n/a | 0.7 % |
other: | 0.3 % | 15.3 % |