Country comparison Sri Lanka : United States

General information

	Sri Lanka	United States
Region:	South Asia	North America
Area:	65,610 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Sinhala	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1948 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Colombo	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Sri Lanka	United States
Population:	21,919,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	334.1	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 74 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 80 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 33.7 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	15.25 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	6.85 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.24 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Sri Lanka	United States
Political stability:	53	63
Civil rights:	43	81
Health:	62	71
Climate:	57	66
Cost of Living:	53	38
Popularity:	33	67

Economy

	Sri Lanka	United States
Currency:	Sri Lanka Rupee (1 LKR = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	5.4 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	6.15 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	29.75 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	55.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	3,720 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	37 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	LKA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	80,677 M US$	3.68 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	81,472 M US$	3.72 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	13,083 M US$	0.60 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	18,271 M US$	0.83 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	LKA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	114,093 km	5.21 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Railways:	1,562 km	0.07 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	160 km	0.01 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	90	0.004	3,627	0.011
Airports:	18	0.001	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	LKA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	12.67 bn kWh	578,037.32 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	13.66 bn kWh	623,203.61 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:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	21.63 m t	986.82 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 t

Telecommunication

	Sri Lanka	United States
International dialing:	+94	+1
Internet domain:	.lk	.us

	LKA total	LKA per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	2,428,957	111	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	29,730,465	1356	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	9,552	0	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	7,671,650	350	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	1,781,530	81	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Sri Lanka	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	4.15	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.96	2.59
Diabetes:	10.7 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.01 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.6 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	85.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	22.0 %	23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Sri Lanka and United States

	Sri Lanka	United States
Daytime temperatures:	29.7 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.7 °C	7.1 °C
Water temperature:	27.7 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	80 %	67 %
Rain days:	11.4	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.0	7.2

Native languages

	Sri Lanka	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Sinhala:	74.0 %	n/a
Tamil:	18.0 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
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 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	8.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Sri Lanka	United States
Christianity:	7.4 %	78.5 %
Buddhism:	70.2 %	0.7 %
Hinduism:	12.6 %	1.0 %
Islam:	9.7 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
other:	0.1 %	15.3 %