Country comparison: Greenland / United States of America

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Greenland and United States. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Greenland	United States
Region:	North America	North America
Area:	2,166,000 km²	9,831,510 km²
National language:	Eskimo, Danish	English
Government form:	Parliamentary democracy (territory of the Kingdom of Denmark)	Federal presidential republic
Capital:	Nuuk	Washington, D.C.

Population

Details for Greenland and the United States

	Greenland	United States
Population:	56,653	331,894,000
Inhabitants/km²:	0.0	33.8
Life expectancy males:	Ø 70 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 74 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 34.3 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birth rate:	14.80 ‰	10.90 ‰
Death rate:	9.20 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-4.95 ‰	3.01 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Greenland	United States
Political stability:	86	67
Civil rights:	98	83
Health:	63	71
Climate:	16	66
Cost of Living:	30	34
Popularity:	4	71

Economy

	Greenland	United States
Currency:	Danish krone (1 DKK = 100 øre)	US dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	9.1 %	3.6 %
Average income:	19,290 US$	70,930 US$

	GRL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	3,076 M US$	54.30 M US$	23,315,081 M US$	70.25 M US$
Gross national product:	1,087 M US$	19.18 M US$	23,539,918 M US$	70.93 M US$
Exported goods:	407 M US$	7.19 M US$	2,556,638 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	784 M US$	13.83 M US$	3,401,688 M US$	10.25 M US$

Infrastructure

	GRL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Harbours:	8	0.1412	3,627	0.0109
Passenger airports:	14	0.2471	436	0.0013

Energy balance

Details for Greenland and the United States

	GRL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	1.64 bn kWh	28.91 m kWh	10.015 tn kWh	30.18 m kWh
Energy consumption:	481.70 m kWh	8.50 m kWh	3.898 tn kWh	11.74 m kWh
Energy production:	498.70 m kWh	8.80 m kWh	4.049 tn kWh	12.20 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	14.13 bn kWh	42,587.96 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	61.45 bn kWh	185,146.19 kWh
CO2 emissions:	509,713.00 t	8,997.11 t	4.82 bn t	14,515.85 t

Telecommunication

Details for Greenland and the United States

	Greenland	United States
International dialing:	+299	+1
Internet domain:	.gl	.us

	GRL total	GRL per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	6,352	112	101,526,000	306
Mobile cellulars:	66,605	1176	351,477,000	1059
Internet server:	15,645	276	505,000,000	1522
Internet users:	39,364	695	301,691,414	909
Broadband Internet:	16,781	296	125,885,000	379

Healthcare system

Details for Greenland and the United States

	Greenland	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	14.35	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.14	2.59
Diabetes:	2.1 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.70 ‰	0.03 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	77.0 %	74.0 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Greenland and United States

	Greenland	United States
Daytime temperatures:	0.5 °C	18.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	-4.6 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	0.3 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	81 %	67 %
Rain days:	8.3	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	3.9	7.2

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
United States
Greenland

Native languages

	Greenland	United States
Eskimo:	88.0 %	0.0 %
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Danish:	11.0 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Icelandic:	1.0 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	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 %
other:	0.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Greenland	United States
State religion:	Folkekirken (Evangelical Lutheran)	none
Christianity:	96.0 %	78.5 %
Nondenominational:	2.5 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Inuits:	0.8 %	n/a
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	0.7 %	15.3 %

Data inventory and updates

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