Country comparison Kenya : United States

General information

	Kenya	United States
Region:	Eastern Africa	North America
Area:	580,370 km²	9,831,510 km²
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1963 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Nairobi	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Kenya	United States
Population:	52,574,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	90.6	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 64 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 69 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 18.8 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	28.75 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	5.47 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.20 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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	Kenya	United States
Political stability:	41	72
Civil rights:	35	83
Health:	24	74
Climate:	89	64
Cost of Living:	46	34
Popularity:	37	86

Economy

	Kenya	United States
Currency:	Kenian Schilling (1 KES = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	3.0 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	4.69 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	49.37 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	37.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,750 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	31 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	KEN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	95,503 M US$	1.82 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	91,824 M US$	1.75 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	11,491 M US$	0.22 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	20,408 M US$	0.39 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	KEN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	177,800 km	3.38 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	3,819 km	0.07 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Harbours:	24	0.000	3,673	0.011
Airports:	197	0.004	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	KEN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	7.86 bn kWh	149,560.70 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	9.63 bn kWh	183,246.57 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	39.10 m kWh	743.71 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	184.00 m kWh	3,499.83 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	17.91 m t	340.66 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Kenya	United States
International dialing:	+254	+1
Internet domain:	.ke	.us

	KEN total	KEN per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	70,394	1	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	54,555,500	1038	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	71,018	1	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	11,863,370	226	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Kenya	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.40	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.20	2.59
Diabetes:	3.1 %	10.8 %
HIV:	1.47 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	2.7 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	84.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	11.8 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Kenya and United States

	Kenya	United States
Daytime temperatures:	28.4 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	18.0 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	27.0 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	67 %	67 %
Rain days:	7.1	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.5	7.2

Native languages

	Kenya	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Kikuyu:	20.9 %	n/a
Luhya:	13.8 %	n/a
Luo:	12.8 %	n/a
Kamba:	11.2 %	n/a
Kalenjin:	10.8 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Gusii:	6.1 %	n/a
Nyika:	4.8 %	n/a
Masai:	1.6 %	n/a
Turkana:	1.4 %	n/a
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 %
other:	16.6 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Kenya	United States
Christianity:	82.5 %	78.5 %
Islam:	11.1 %	1.1 %
nondenominational:	2.4 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Native religions:	1.6 %	n/a
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	2.4 %	15.3 %