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 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
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 81 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 84 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 35.5 years	Ø 37.4 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)
Visit also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life (in german only)

	Iceland	United States
Political stability:	83	67
Civil rights:	93	81
Health:	88	74
Climate:	7	63
Cost of Living:	36	35
Popularity:	33	72

Economy

	Iceland	United States
Currency:	Icelandic Krone (1 ISK = 100 Aurar)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	5.0 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	2.85 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	127.89 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	31.90 %	36.60 %
Average income:	72,930 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	75 (good)	67 (moderate)

	ISL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	21,715 M US$	59.26 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	26,295 M US$	71.76 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	7,433 M US$	20.28 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	7,555 M US$	20.62 M US$	2,808,955 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:	40	0.109	3,652	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:	125,567	343	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	413,446	1128	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	369,969	1010	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	362,801	990	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	141,816	387	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Iceland	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.20	2.90
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 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	13.8 %	25.1 %

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:	13.0	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 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	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 %