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 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Tehran	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Iran	United States
Population:	83,993,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	48.1	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 76 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 31.7 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	17.94 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	4.84 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.30 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Iran	United States
Political stability:	19	63
Civil rights:	15	81
Health:	60	71
Climate:	56	66
Cost of Living:	50	38
Popularity:	40	67

Economy

	Iran	United States
Currency:	Iranian Rial (1 IRR = 100 Dinars)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	11.5 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	39.91 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	52.38 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	44.70 %	36.60 %
Average income:	2,960 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	25 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	IRN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	203,471 M US$	2.42 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	248,364 M US$	2.96 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	29,727 M US$	0.35 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	17,503 M US$	0.21 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	IRN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	223,485 km	2.66 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 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:	893	0.011	3,627	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	2.81 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	272.30 bn kWh	3.24 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.35 m kWh
Energy export:	6.82 bn kWh	81,221.10 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:	4.22 bn kWh	50,254.22 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	629.29 m t	7,492.18 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 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:	29,093,587	346	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	127,624,951	1519	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	197,804	2	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	70,647,204	841	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	9,564,195	114	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Iran	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.56	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.14	2.59
Diabetes:	9.6 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.05 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	85.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	13.6 %	23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Iran and United States

	Iran	United States
Daytime temperatures:	23.9 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	10.1 °C	7.1 °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
Arabic:	2.0 %	n/a
Balochi:	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 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
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 %