Country comparison Estonia : United States

General information

	Estonia	United States
Region:	Northern Europe	North America
Area:	45,340 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Estonian	English
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1991 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Tallinn	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Estonia	United States
Population:	1,331,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	29.4	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 74 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 43.7 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	10.60 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	11.60 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-2.85 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Estonia	United States
Political stability:	79	63
Civil rights:	89	81
Health:	81	71
Climate:	17	66
Cost of Living:	42	38
Popularity:	26	67

Economy

	Estonia	United States
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	6.3 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	4.65 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	73.46 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.80 %	36.60 %
Average income:	23,170 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	74 (good)	67 (moderate)

	EST: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	30,650 M US$	23.03 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	30,845 M US$	23.17 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	29,165 M US$	21.91 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	29,089 M US$	21.85 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	EST: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	58,412 km	43.88 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	2,146 km	1.61 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	335 km	0.25 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	68	0.051	3,627	0.011
Airports:	18	0.014	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	EST: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	8.80 bn kWh	6.61 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	11.55 bn kWh	8.68 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	5.61 bn kWh	4.22 m kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	3.58 bn kWh	2.69 m kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	16.00 m t	12,020.52 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Estonia	United States
International dialing:	+372	+1
Internet domain:	.ee	.us

	EST total	EST per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	304,728	229	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	1,925,789	1447	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	865,494	650	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	1,185,417	891	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	415,610	312	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Estonia	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	4.57	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.47	2.59
Diabetes:	4.2 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.33 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	76.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	30.5 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Estonia and United States

	Estonia	United States
Daytime temperatures:	10.1 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	2.8 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	6.9 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	81 %	67 %
Rain days:	10.5	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.0	7.2

Native languages

	Estonia	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Estonian:	68.5 %	n/a
Russian:	27.6 %	0.2 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Byelorussian:	1.4 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
Finnish:	0.7 %	n/a
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Ukrainian:	0.6 %	n/a
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 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	1.2 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Estonia	United States
Christianity:	28.3 %	78.5 %
Nondenominational:	54.1 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	17.6 %	15.3 %