Country comparison: Iceland / United States of America

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

General information

	Iceland	United States
Region:	Northern Europe	North America
Area:	103,000 km²	9,831,510 km²
National language:	Icelandic	English
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1944 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Reykjavík	Washington, D.C.

Population

Details for Iceland and the United States

	Iceland	United States
Population:	372,520	331,894,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.6	33.8
Life expectancy males:	Ø 82 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 37.1 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birth rate:	12.30 ‰	10.90 ‰
Death rate:	6.30 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	2.89 ‰	3.02 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Iceland	United States
Political stability:	83	65
Civil rights:	93	82
Health:	87	71
Climate:	7	66
Cost of Living:	36	37
Popularity:	33	71

Economy

Details for Iceland and the United States

	Iceland	United States
Currency:	Icelandic krone (1 ISK = 100 Aurar)	US dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	5.4 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	4.44 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	127.96 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	31.90 %	36.60 %
Average income:	63,460 US$	70,930 US$
Corruption index:	26 (good)	33 (moderate)

	ISL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	25,602 M US$	68.73 M US$	23,315,081 M US$	70.25 M US$
Gross national product:	23,639 M US$	63.46 M US$	23,539,918 M US$	70.93 M US$
Exported goods:	9,775 M US$	26.24 M US$	2,556,638 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	10,234 M US$	27.47 M US$	3,401,688 M US$	10.25 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Iceland and the United States

	ISL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	12,898 km	34.62 km	6,586,610 km	19.85 km
Harbours:	41	0.1101	3,627	0.0109
Passenger airports:	10	0.0268	436	0.0013

Energy balance

Details for Iceland and the United States

	ISL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	17.68 bn kWh	47.46 m kWh	3.902 tn kWh	11.76 m kWh
Energy production:	18.17 bn kWh	48.78 m kWh	4.095 tn kWh	12.34 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,211.16 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,106.27 kWh
CO2 emissions:	1.64 m t	4,402.45 t	4.82 bn t	14,515.85 t

Telecommunication

Details for Iceland and the United States

	Iceland	United States
International dialing:	+354	+1
Internet domain:	.is	.us

	ISL total	ISL per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	107,032	287	101,526,000	306
Mobile cellulars:	421,384	1131	351,477,000	1059
Internet server:	369,969	993	505,000,000	1522
Internet users:	368,572	989	301,691,414	909
Broadband Internet:	143,124	384	127,032,000	383

Healthcare system

Details for Iceland and the United States

	Iceland	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.83	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.97	2.59
Diabetes:	5.8 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.07 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.03 ‰	0.03 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	100.0 %	74.0 %
Smokers:	12.0 %	23.0 %

Climate

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

	Iceland	United States
Daytime temperatures:	8.1 °C	18.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	3.0 °C	7.3 °C
Rain days:	13.1	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	3.5	7.2

Native languages

	Iceland	United States
Icelandic:	95.7 %	n/a
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
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 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	4.3 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Iceland	United States
Christianity:	83.3 %	78.5 %
Nondenominational:	5.6 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	11.1 %	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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