Country comparison Ethiopia : United States

General information

	Ethiopia	United States
Region:	Eastern Africa	North America
Area:	1,104,300 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Amharic	English
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1000 BC	1776 AD
Capital:	Addis Ababa	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Ethiopia	United States
Population:	114,964,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	104.1	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 65 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 69 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 19.8 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	31.90 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	6.42 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.20 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Ethiopia	United States
Political stability:	27	67
Civil rights:	31	81
Health:	15	73
Climate:	82	62
Cost of Living:	63	35
Popularity:	43	72

Economy

	Ethiopia	United States
Currency:	Birr (1 ETB = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	2.8 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	15.84 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	33.90 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	37.70 %	36.60 %
Average income:	890 US$	64,550 US$
Corruption index:	38 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	ETH: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	107,645 M US$	0.94 M US$	20,893,746 M US$	63.41 M US$
Gross national product:	102,666 M US$	0.89 M US$	21,266,806 M US$	64.55 M US$
Exported goods:	7,715 M US$	0.07 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	17,170 M US$	0.15 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	ETH: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	120,171 km	1.05 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	659 km	0.01 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Harbours:	11	0.000	3,652	0.011
Airports:	57	0.000	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	ETH: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	9.06 bn kWh	78,824.96 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	11.15 bn kWh	96,987.23 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	166.00 m kWh	1,443.94 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:	16.28 m t	141.61 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Ethiopia	United States
International dialing:	+251	+1
Internet domain:	.et	.us

	ETH total	ETH per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	1,140,000	10	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	39,540,000	344	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	179	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	28,740,896	250	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	62,950	1	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Ethiopia	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.33	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.10	2.59
Diabetes:	4.3 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	1.3 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	90.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	4.6 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Ethiopia and United States

	Ethiopia	United States
Daytime temperatures:	27.2 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	13.4 °C	7.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	61 %	67 %
Rain days:	10.7	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.2	7.2

Native languages

	Ethiopia	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Oromo:	33.8 %	n/a
Amharic:	29.3 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Tigrinya:	5.9 %	n/a
Somali:	4.1 %	n/a
Sidamo:	4.0 %	n/a
Wolaytta:	2.2 %	n/a
Gurage:	2.0 %	n/a
Hadiyya:	1.7 %	n/a
Afar:	1.7 %	n/a
Gambo:	1.5 %	n/a
Gedeo:	1.3 %	n/a
Opuuo:	1.2 %	n/a
Kafa:	1.1 %	n/a
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 %
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:	10.2 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Ethiopia	United States
Christianity:	62.7 %	78.5 %
Islam:	33.9 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	3.4 %	15.3 %