Country comparison Laos : United States

General information

	Laos	United States
Region:	Southeast Asia	North America
Area:	236,800 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Lao	English
Government form:	Republic (communist one-party system)	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1953 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Vientiane	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Laos	United States
Population:	7,276,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	30.7	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 66 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 70 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 24.0 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	23.12 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	6.37 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.99 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Laos	United States
Political stability:	67	63
Civil rights:	19	81
Health:	30	71
Climate:	48	66
Cost of Living:	73	38
Popularity:	35	67

Economy

	Laos	United States
Currency:	Kip (1 LAK = 100 At)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	1.3 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	3.76 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	33.49 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	24.10 %	36.60 %
Average income:	2,520 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	30 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	LAO: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	19,133 M US$	2.63 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	18,325 M US$	2.52 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	6,461 M US$	0.89 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	5,816 M US$	0.80 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	LAO: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	39,586 km	5.44 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Waterways:	4,600 km	0.63 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	1	0.000	3,627	0.011
Airports:	41	0.006	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	LAO: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	5.47 bn kWh	751,970.02 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	29.74 bn kWh	4.09 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	8.47 bn kWh	1.16 m kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	2.50 bn kWh	343,616.35 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	18.79 m t	2,582.62 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Laos	United States
International dialing:	+856	+1
Internet domain:	.la	.us

	LAO total	LAO per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	1,490,831	205	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	4,362,183	600	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	1,532	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	1,856,023	255	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	128,000	18	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Laos	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.50	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.50	2.59
Diabetes:	6.4 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.21 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	1.5 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	90.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	32.5 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Laos and United States

	Laos	United States
Daytime temperatures:	32.0 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.9 °C	7.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	75 %	67 %
Rain days:	9.6	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.1	7.2

Native languages

	Laos	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Lao:	67.2 %	n/a
Khmer:	16.5 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Thai:	7.8 %	n/a
Lao-Soung:	5.2 %	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 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	3.3 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Laos	United States
Christianity:	1.5 %	78.5 %
Buddhism:	66.8 %	0.7 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
other:	31.7 %	15.3 %