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 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Baghdad	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Iraq	United States
Population:	39,310,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	90.4	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 68 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 72 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 19.7 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	29.08 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	4.78 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.68 ‰	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)

	Iraq	United States
Political stability:	29	73
Civil rights:	13	83
Health:	42	74
Climate:	43	64
Cost of Living:	71	13
Popularity:	28	86

Economy

	Iraq	United States
Currency:	Iraqi Dinar (1 IQD = 1000 Fils)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	13.7 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	-0.20 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	53.01 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	30.80 %	36.60 %
Average income:	5,740 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	21 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	IRQ: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	234,094 M US$	5.96 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	225,739 M US$	5.74 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	88,903 M US$	2.26 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	72,283 M US$	1.84 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	IRQ: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	59,623 km	1.52 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 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:	73	0.002	3,673	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	978,382.40 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	75.45 bn kWh	1.92 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	11.97 bn kWh	304,504.35 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	190.06 m t	4,834.94 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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:	2,705,030	69	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	36,466,900	928	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	26	0	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	19,403,309	494	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Iraq	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.40	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.82	2.59
Diabetes:	8.8 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.4 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	93.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	22.2 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Iraq and United States

	Iraq	United States
Daytime temperatures:	33.1 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	19.2 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	47 %	67 %
Rain days:	1.3	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	8.5	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 %
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 %