Country comparison Kosovo : United States

General information

	Kosovo	United States
Region:	Southern Europe	North America
Area:	10,887 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Albanian	English
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	2008 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Pristina	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Kosovo	United States
Population:	1,790,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	164.4	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 69 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 74 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 30.5 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	15.40 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	8.00 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.44 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Kosovo	United States
Political stability:	48	63
Civil rights:	40	81
Health:	50	71
Climate:	47	66
Cost of Living:	65	38
Popularity:	44	67

Economy

	Kosovo	United States
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	30.5 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	3.35 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	41.00 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	15.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	4,440 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	39 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	KOS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	7,717 M US$	4.31 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	7,952 M US$	4.44 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	1,687 M US$	0.94 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	4,187 M US$	2.34 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	KOS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	2,012 km	1.12 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Railways:	333 km	0.19 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Airports:	6	0.003	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	KOS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	3.96 bn kWh	2.21 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	5.64 bn kWh	3.15 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.35 m kWh
Energy export:	885.70 m kWh	494,767.71 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:	557.00 m kWh	311,150.07 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	8.94 m t	4,996.17 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 t

Telecommunication

	Kosovo	United States
International dialing:	+383	+1
Internet domain:	.ko	.us

	KOS total	KOS per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	106,300	59	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	562,000	314	442,457,000	1335
Internet users:	1,587,951	887	294,658,590	889

Climate

Detailed info for: Kosovo and United States

	Kosovo	United States
Daytime temperatures:	19.3 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	8.2 °C	7.1 °C
Rain days:	6.4	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.4	7.2

Native languages

	Kosovo	United States
Albanian:	94.5 %	n/a
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Bosnian:	1.7 %	n/a
Serbian:	1.6 %	n/a
Turkish:	1.1 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Romany:	0.6 %	n/a
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 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	0.5 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Kosovo	United States
Islam:	95.6 %	1.1 %
Christianity:	3.7 %	78.5 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
Nondenominational:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	0.6 %	15.3 %