Country comparison Iran : United States

General information

	Iran	United States
Region:	South Asia	North America
Area:	1,745,150 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Persian	English
Government form:	Islamic Republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1906 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Tehran	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Iran	United States
Population:	82,914,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	47.5	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 75 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 28.5 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	18.78 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	4.84 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.30 ‰	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)

	Iran	United States
Political stability:	16	72
Civil rights:	17	83
Health:	58	74
Climate:	63	64
Cost of Living:	53	38
Popularity:	37	86

Economy

	Iran	United States
Currency:	Iranian Rial (1 IRR = 100 Dinars)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	11.0 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	39.91 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	61.00 %	110.20 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	44.70 %	36.60 %
Average income:	5,300 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	26 (very bad)	69 (moderate)

	IRN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	453,996 M US$	5.48 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	433,734 M US$	5.23 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	29,727 M US$	0.36 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	17,503 M US$	0.21 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	IRN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	223,485 km	2.70 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	8,484 km	0.10 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	850 km	0.01 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	785	0.009	3,673	0.011
Airports:	319	0.004	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	IRN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	236.30 bn kWh	2.85 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	272.30 bn kWh	3.28 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	6.82 bn kWh	82,278.12 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	4.22 bn kWh	50,908.23 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	661.71 m t	7,980.69 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Iran	United States
International dialing:	+98	+1
Internet domain:	.ir	.us

	IRN total	IRN per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	28,954,900	349	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	118,061,000	1424	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	197,804	2	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	58,043,548	700	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Iran	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.50	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.14	2.59
Diabetes:	9.6 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.08 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	86.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	14.0 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Iran and United States

	Iran	United States
Daytime temperatures:	24.0 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	10.4 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	46 %	67 %
Rain days:	3.4	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	8.1	7.2

Native languages

	Iran	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Persian:	53.0 %	n/a
Azerbaijanian:	14.3 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Kurdish:	9.1 %	n/a
Luri:	5.6 %	n/a
Gilaki:	5.3 %	n/a
Mazandarani:	3.6 %	n/a
Balochi:	2.0 %	n/a
Arabic:	2.0 %	n/a
Bakhtyari:	1.3 %	n/a
Turkmen:	1.2 %	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 %
other:	2.6 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Iran	United States
Islam:	96.5 %	1.1 %
Christianity:	0.4 %	78.5 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
Bahaism:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	15.3 %