Country comparison Kazakhstan : United States

General information

	Kazakhstan	United States
Region:	Central Asia	North America
Area:	2,724,902 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Kazakh	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1991 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Nursultan	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Kazakhstan	United States
Population:	18,514,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	6.8	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 69 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 77 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 29.4 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	21.77 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	7.14 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	0.39 ‰	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)

	Kazakhstan	United States
Political stability:	57	72
Civil rights:	36	83
Health:	75	74
Climate:	43	64
Cost of Living:	57	34
Popularity:	37	86

Economy

	Kazakhstan	United States
Currency:	Tenge (1 KZT = 100 Tyin)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	6.1 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	5.25 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	38.71 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	28.40 %	36.60 %
Average income:	8,820 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	38 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	KAZ: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	181,666 M US$	9.81 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	163,361 M US$	8.82 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	65,947 M US$	3.56 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	51,503 M US$	2.78 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	KAZ: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	95,409 km	5.15 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	16,614 km	0.90 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	4,000 km	0.22 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	124	0.007	3,673	0.011
Airports:	96	0.005	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	KAZ: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	94.23 bn kWh	5.09 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	100.80 bn kWh	5.44 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	5.10 bn kWh	275,468.26 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	1.32 bn kWh	71,189.64 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	247.21 m t	13,352.49 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Kazakhstan	United States
International dialing:	+7	+1
Internet domain:	.kz	.us

	KAZ total	KAZ per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	3,210,500	173	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	25,709,000	1389	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	67,464	4	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	15,158,762	819	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Kazakhstan	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	6.70	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.25	2.59
Diabetes:	6.1 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.36 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.7 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	90.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	24.4 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Kazakhstan and United States

	Kazakhstan	United States
Daytime temperatures:	13.2 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	1.7 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	64 %	67 %
Rain days:	5.1	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.0	7.2

Native languages

	Kazakhstan	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Kazakh:	64.4 %	n/a
Russian:	19.0 %	0.2 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Ukrainian:	5.0 %	n/a
German:	3.1 %	0.6 %
Uzbek:	2.3 %	n/a
Tatar:	2.0 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
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:	4.2 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Kazakhstan	United States
Christianity:	26.2 %	78.5 %
Islam:	70.2 %	1.1 %
nondenominational:	2.8 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	0.8 %	15.3 %