Country comparison: Kenya / United States

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Kenya and United States. For further information and explanations, we provide many details per country that go far beyond this comparison. For example, there are separate sub-pages for both countries on economy, climate, energy, refugees, inflation, population and much more.
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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 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Nairobi	Washington, D.C.

Population

Details for Kenya and the United States

	Kenya	United States
Population:	54,986,000	331,894,000
Inhabitants/km²:	94.7	33.8
Life expectancy males:	Ø 65 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 69 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 20.0 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	27.94 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	5.35 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.19 ‰	3.02 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Kenya	United States
Political stability:	41	63
Civil rights:	33	81
Health:	25	71
Climate:	90	66
Cost of Living:	45	37
Popularity:	43	71

Economy

Details for Kenya and the United States

	Kenya	United States
Currency:	Kenian Schilling (1 KES = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	5.7 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	6.11 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	42.34 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	37.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	2,010 US$	70,430 US$
Corruption index:	70 (very bad)	33 (moderate)

	KEN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	110,347 M US$	2.01 M US$	22,996,100 M US$	69.29 M US$
Gross national product:	110,401 M US$	2.01 M US$	23,374,712 M US$	70.43 M US$
Exported goods:	9,776 M US$	0.18 M US$	2,532,951 M US$	7.63 M US$
Imported goods:	17,854 M US$	0.32 M US$	3,394,346 M US$	10.23 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Kenya and the United States

	KEN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	177,800 km	3.23 km	6,586,610 km	19.85 km
Railways:	3,819 km	0.07 km	293,564 km	0.88 km
Harbours:	26	0.0005	3,627	0.0109
Passenger airports:	16	0.0003	436	0.0013

Energy balance

Details for Kenya and the United States

	KEN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	7.86 bn kWh	143,000.81 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.76 m kWh
Energy production:	9.63 bn kWh	175,209.18 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.34 m kWh
Energy export:	39.10 m kWh	711.09 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,211.16 kWh
Energy imports:	184.00 m kWh	3,346.32 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,106.27 kWh
CO2 emissions:	22.28 m t	405.20 t	4.82 bn t	14,515.85 t

Telecommunication

Details for Kenya and the United States

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

	KEN total	KEN per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	66,646	1	101,526,000	306
Mobile cellulars:	61,408,904	1117	351,477,000	1059
Internet server:	71,018	1	505,000,000	1522
Internet users:	16,220,782	295	301,691,414	909
Broadband Internet:	674,191	12	121,176,000	365

Healthcare system

Details for Kenya and the United States

	Kenya	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	1.40	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.20	2.59
Diabetes:	3.1 %	10.8 %
HIV:	1.15 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	2.59 ‰	0.02 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	86.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	11.1 %	23.0 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Kenya and United States

	Kenya	United States
Daytime temperatures:	27.4 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	16.5 °C	7.1 °C
Water temperature:	27.0 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	66 %	67 %
Rain days:	7.2	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.2	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 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	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:	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 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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