Country comparison Egypt : United States

General information

	Egypt	United States
Region:	Northern Africa	North America
Area:	1,001,450 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Arabic	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1922 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Cairo	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Egypt	United States
Population:	102,334,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	102.2	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 70 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 74 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 25.2 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	25.71 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	5.78 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.34 ‰	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)

	Egypt	United States
Political stability:	33	68
Civil rights:	26	81
Health:	45	74
Climate:	69	62
Cost of Living:	100	16
Popularity:	46	72

Economy

	Egypt	United States
Currency:	Egypt Pound (1 EGP = 100 Piasters)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	10.5 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	5.04 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	29.59 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	44.40 %	36.60 %
Average income:	3,000 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	33 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	EGY: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	363,069 M US$	3.55 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	306,856 M US$	3.00 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	40,102 M US$	0.39 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	72,482 M US$	0.71 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	EGY: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	65,050 km	0.64 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	5,085 km	0.05 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	3,500 km	0.03 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	402	0.004	3,652	0.011
Airports:	83	0.001	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	EGY: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	159.70 bn kWh	1.56 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	183.50 bn kWh	1.79 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	1.16 bn kWh	11,315.84 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	54.00 m kWh	527.68 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	246.26 m t	2,406.42 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Egypt	United States
International dialing:	+20	+1
Internet domain:	.eg	.us

	EGY total	EGY per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	8,760,436	86	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	95,340,262	932	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	200,430	2	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	58,620,082	573	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	9,349,469	91	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Egypt	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.60	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.79	2.59
Diabetes:	17.2 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.06 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	86.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	21.4 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Egypt and United States

	Egypt	United States
Daytime temperatures:	30.0 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	17.4 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	21.0 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	49 %	67 %
Rain days:	0.6	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	9.6	7.2

Native languages

	Egypt	United States
Arabic:	98.8 %	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:	1.2 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Egypt	United States
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 %