Country comparison Israel : United States

General information

	Israel	United States
Region:	Western Asia	North America
Area:	22,070 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Hebrew	English
Government form:	Parliamentary democracy	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1948 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Jerusalem	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Israel	United States
Population:	9,217,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	417.6	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 30.1 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	20.10 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	5.10 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	2.05 ‰	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)

	Israel	United States
Political stability:	62	73
Civil rights:	74	83
Health:	85	74
Climate:	84	64
Cost of Living:	34	35
Popularity:	31	72

Economy

	Israel	United States
Currency:	Shekel (1 ILS = 100 Agorot)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.6 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	-0.59 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	132.11 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	25.30 %	36.60 %
Average income:	43,070 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	60 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	ISR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	401,954 M US$	43.61 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	389,981 M US$	42.31 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	113,874 M US$	12.35 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	96,531 M US$	10.47 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	ISR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	19,555 km	2.12 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	1,384 km	0.15 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Harbours:	40	0.004	3,673	0.011
Airports:	42	0.005	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	ISR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	55.00 bn kWh	5.97 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	63.09 bn kWh	6.85 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	5.20 bn kWh	564,181.02 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:	61.97 m t	6,723.52 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Israel	United States
International dialing:	+972	+1
Internet domain:	.il	.us

	ISR total	ISR per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	3,040,000	330	107,281,000	326
Mobile phones:	10,800,000	1172	404,577,000	1228
Internet server:	2,483,000	269	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	7,857,169	852	286,441,830	869

Healthcare system

	Israel	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.10	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.22	2.59
Diabetes:	9.7 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.10 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.0 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	78.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	25.5 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Israel and United States

	Israel	United States
Daytime temperatures:	26.0 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	16.3 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	22.6 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	60 %	67 %
Rain days:	3.1	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	9.0	7.2

Native languages

	Israel	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Hebrew:	63.1 %	n/a
Arabic:	18.0 %	n/a
Russian:	14.0 %	0.2 %
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 %
other:	4.9 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Israel	United States
Christianity:	2.0 %	78.5 %
Jewry:	74.7 %	1.8 %
Islam:	19.3 %	1.1 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	4.0 %	15.3 %