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 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Tripoli	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Libya	United States
Population:	6,871,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.9	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 70 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 76 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 26.6 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	18.30 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	5.10 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.15 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Libya	United States
Political stability:	14	73
Civil rights:	3	83
Health:	60	74
Climate:	77	63
Cost of Living:	62	35
Popularity:	50	72

Economy

	Libya	United States
Currency:	Libyan Dinar (1 LYD = 1000 Dirhams)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	19.4 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	2.61 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	50.86 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	32.60 %	36.60 %
Average income:	4,850 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	17 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	LBY: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	25,418 M US$	3.70 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	33,358 M US$	4.85 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	29,964 M US$	4.36 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	18,849 M US$	2.74 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	LBY: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	37,000 km	5.38 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Harbours:	94	0.014	3,652	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	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	34.24 bn kWh	4.98 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	376.00 m kWh	54,720.46 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	58.94 m t	8,577.72 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 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	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	6,020,000	876	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	17,926	3	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	1,495,116	218	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	318,000	46	114,259,000	347

Healthcare system

	Libya	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.70	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.16	2.59
Diabetes:	10.2 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.10 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.6 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	69.0 %	79.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Libya and United States

	Libya	United States
Daytime temperatures:	28.0 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	16.5 °C	7.2 °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 %