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:	53,771,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	92.7	33.5
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:	28.30 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	5.39 ‰	8.70 ‰
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:	42	67
Civil rights:	33	81
Health:	24	74
Climate:	87	62
Cost of Living:	46	35
Popularity:	43	72

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:	5.40 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	47.47 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	37.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,760 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	31 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	KEN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	98,843 M US$	1.84 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	94,789 M US$	1.76 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	11,491 M US$	0.21 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	20,408 M US$	0.38 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	KEN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	177,800 km	3.31 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	3,819 km	0.07 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Harbours:	24	0.000	3,652	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	146,230.42 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	9.63 bn kWh	179,166.21 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	39.10 m kWh	727.15 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	184.00 m kWh	3,421.90 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	18.40 m t	342.19 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 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	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	54,555,497	1015	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	71,018	1	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	12,133,558	226	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	674,191	13	120,531,000	366

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:	1.15 %	0.20 %
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	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	17.6 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	27.0 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	67 %
Rain days:	7.2	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 %
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 %