Country comparison: Hong Kong / United States of America

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

General information

	Hong Kong	United States
Region:	East Asia	North America
Area:	1,110 km²	9,831,510 km²
National language:	Chinese, English	English
Government form:	Presidential limited democracy (special administrative region of China)	Federal presidential republic
Capital:	Hong Kong	Washington, D.C.

Population

Details for Hong Kong and the United States

	Hong Kong	United States
Population:	7,413,000	331,894,000
Inhabitants/km²:	6,678.5	33.8
Life expectancy males:	Ø 83 years	Ø 74 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 88 years	Ø 79 years
Average age:	Ø 45.6 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birth rate:	5.00 ‰	11.00 ‰
Death rate:	6.90 ‰	10.40 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.65 ‰	3.01 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Hong Kong	United States
Political stability:	81	67
Civil rights:	82	83
Health:	100	69
Climate:	49	66
Cost of Living:	60	34
Popularity:	52	71

Economy

Details for Hong Kong and the United States

	Hong Kong	United States
Currency:	Hong Kong dollar (1 HKD = 100 Cents)	US dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	5.1 %	3.6 %
Inflation rate:	1.88 %	8.00 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	73.18 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	21.90 %	36.60 %
Average income:	54,460 US$	70,930 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):	8.36 %	115.28 %
Corruption index:	24 (good)	31 (moderate)

	HKG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	369,176 M US$	49.80 M US$	23,315,081 M US$	70.25 M US$
Gross national product:	403,721 M US$	54.46 M US$	23,539,918 M US$	70.93 M US$
Exported goods:	752,621 M US$	101.53 M US$	2,556,638 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	732,087 M US$	98.76 M US$	3,401,688 M US$	10.25 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Hong Kong and the United States

	HKG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	2,193 km	0.30 km	6,586,610 km	19.85 km
Harbours:	2,718	0.3666	3,627	0.0109
Passenger airports:	1	0.0001	436	0.0013

Energy balance

Details for Hong Kong and the United States

	HKG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	124.11 bn kWh	16.74 m kWh	10.015 tn kWh	30.18 m kWh
Energy consumption:	44.18 bn kWh	5.96 m kWh	3.898 tn kWh	11.74 m kWh
Energy production:	33.11 bn kWh	4.47 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:	12.70 bn kWh	1.71 m kWh	61.45 bn kWh	185,146.19 kWh
CO2 emissions:	43.64 m t	5,887.50 t	4.82 bn t	14,515.85 t

Telecommunication

Details for Hong Kong and the United States

	Hong Kong	United States
International dialing:	+852	+1
Internet domain:	.hk	.us

	HKG total	HKG per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	3,856,180	520	101,526,000	306
Mobile cellulars:	23,939,650	3229	351,477,000	1059
Internet server:	870,041	117	505,000,000	1522
Internet users:	6,900,644	931	301,691,414	909
Broadband Internet:	2,935,378	396	125,885,000	379

Healthcare system

Details for Hong Kong and the United States

	Hong Kong	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	4.89	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.32	2.59
Diabetes:	4.5 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.57 ‰	0.03 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	74.0 %	74.0 %

Climate

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

	Hong Kong	United States
Daytime temperatures:	26.2 °C	18.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.0 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	23.6 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	80 %	67 %
Rain days:	8.9	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.1	7.2

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Hong Kong
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Native languages

	Hong Kong	United States
Chinese:	94.8 %	0.9 %
English:	3.5 %	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Hakka:	1.0 %	n/a
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 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	0.7 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Hong Kong	United States
Christianity:	11.8 %	78.5 %
Local chinese beliefs:	49.0 %	n/a
Buddhism:	21.3 %	0.7 %
Taoism:	14.2 %	n/a
Islam:	3.1 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	0.1 %	1.6 %
Hinduism:	0.5 %	1.0 %
other:	0.0 %	15.3 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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