Country comparison Iceland : United States

General information

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

Population

	Iceland	United States
Population:	366,425	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.6	33.5
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
Birthrate:	12.30 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	6.30 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	3.09 ‰	3.03 ‰

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:	82	63
Civil rights:	92	81
Health:	87	71
Climate:	7	66
Cost of Living:	37	38
Popularity:	33	67

Economy

	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%)	126.93 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	31.90 %	36.60 %
Average income:	62,410 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	74 (good)	67 (moderate)

	ISL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	21,718 M US$	59.27 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	22,871 M US$	62.42 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	7,463 M US$	20.37 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	7,616 M US$	20.79 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	ISL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	12,898 km	35.20 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Harbours:	41	0.112	3,627	0.011
Airports:	96	0.262	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	ISL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	17.68 bn kWh	48.25 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	18.17 bn kWh	49.59 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:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	2.20 m t	6,003.96 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	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	292	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	421,384	1150	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	369,969	1010	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	362,761	990	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	141,816	387	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Iceland	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.83	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.97	2.59
Diabetes:	5.8 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.08 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.0 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	100.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	12.6 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Iceland and United States

	Iceland	United States
Daytime temperatures:	8.1 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	3.0 °C	7.2 °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 %