Country comparison Iraq : United States

General information

	Iraq	United States
Region:	Western Asia	North America
Area:	435,052 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Arabic	English
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1932 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Baghdad	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Iraq	United States
Population:	40,223,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	92.5	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 69 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 73 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 21.2 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	28.56 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	4.74 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.68 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Iraq	United States
Political stability:	16	63
Civil rights:	12	81
Health:	42	71
Climate:	37	66
Cost of Living:	75	38
Popularity:	34	67

Economy

	Iraq	United States
Currency:	Iraqi Dinar (1 IQD = 1000 Fils)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	14.2 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	6.04 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	36.76 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	30.80 %	36.60 %
Average income:	4,680 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	23 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	IRQ: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	166,757 M US$	4.15 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	188,097 M US$	4.68 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	50,613 M US$	1.26 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	54,723 M US$	1.36 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	IRQ: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	59,623 km	1.48 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	2,272 km	0.06 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	5,279 km	0.13 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	68	0.002	3,627	0.011
Airports:	102	0.003	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	IRQ: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	38.46 bn kWh	956,181.17 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	75.45 bn kWh	1.88 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	11.97 bn kWh	297,594.61 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	188.14 m t	4,677.48 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Iraq	United States
International dialing:	+964	+1
Internet domain:	.iq	.us

	IRQ total	IRQ per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	4,166,461	104	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	36,946,600	919	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	26	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	19,853,827	494	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	6,254,099	155	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Iraq	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.32	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.82	2.59
Diabetes:	8.8 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.3 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	94.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	18.8 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Iraq and United States

	Iraq	United States
Daytime temperatures:	32.7 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	18.8 °C	7.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	47 %	67 %
Rain days:	1.3	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	8.4	7.2

Native languages

	Iraq	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Arabic:	77.2 %	n/a
Kurdish:	19.0 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Azerbaijanian:	1.7 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
Assyrian:	0.8 %	n/a
Persian:	0.8 %	n/a
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:	0.5 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Iraq	United States
Islam:	97.0 %	1.1 %
Christianity:	0.8 %	78.5 %
Jewry:	0.1 %	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Yazidism:	1.3 %	n/a
Hinduism:	0.1 %	1.0 %
Buddhism:	0.1 %	0.7 %
other:	0.6 %	15.3 %