Country comparison Libya : United States

General information

	Libya	United States
Region:	Northern Africa	North America
Area:	1,759,540 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Arabic	English
Government form:	Republic (transitional government after dictatorship)	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1951 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Tripoli	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Libya	United States
Population:	6,871,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.9	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 70 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 76 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 25.8 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	17.81 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	5.12 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.15 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Libya	United States
Political stability:	15	63
Civil rights:	3	81
Health:	58	71
Climate:	71	66
Cost of Living:	51	38
Popularity:	50	67

Economy

	Libya	United States
Currency:	Libyan Dinar (1 LYD = 1000 Dirhams)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	19.6 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	2.61 %	4.70 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	32.60 %	36.60 %
Average income:	4,960 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	17 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	LBY: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	25,419 M US$	3.70 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	34,077 M US$	4.96 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	27,901 M US$	4.06 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	24,500 M US$	3.57 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	LBY: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	37,000 km	5.38 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Harbours:	94	0.014	3,627	0.011
Airports:	146	0.021	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	LBY: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	27.30 bn kWh	3.97 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	34.24 bn kWh	4.98 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.35 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:	376.00 m kWh	54,720.46 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	58.94 m t	8,577.72 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 t

Telecommunication

	Libya	United States
International dialing:	+218	+1
Internet domain:	.ly	.us

	LBY total	LBY per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	1,576,000	229	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	6,020,000	876	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	17,926	3	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	1,495,116	218	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	332,000	48	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Libya	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.20	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.16	2.59
Diabetes:	10.2 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.08 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.6 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	70.0 %	75.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Libya and United States

	Libya	United States
Daytime temperatures:	27.9 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	16.4 °C	7.1 °C
Water temperature:	20.6 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	49 %	67 %
Rain days:	1.6	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	9.1	7.2

Native languages

	Libya	United States
Arabic:	96.0 %	n/a
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Berberi:	1.0 %	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:	3.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Libya	United States
Islam:	96.6 %	1.1 %
Christianity:	2.7 %	78.5 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	0.3 %	0.7 %
other:	0.4 %	15.3 %