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

Population

	Sri Lanka	United States
Population:	21,803,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	332.3	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 73 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 80 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 31.4 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	15.83 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	6.65 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.24 ‰	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)

	Sri Lanka	United States
Political stability:	56	72
Civil rights:	44	83
Health:	59	74
Climate:	57	64
Cost of Living:	52	34
Popularity:	24	86

Economy

	Sri Lanka	United States
Currency:	Sri Lanka Rupee (1 LKR = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.8 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	3.53 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	37.27 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	55.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	4,020 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	38 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	LKA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	84,009 M US$	3.85 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	87,694 M US$	4.02 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	19,414 M US$	0.89 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	24,562 M US$	1.13 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	LKA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	114,093 km	5.23 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 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:	97	0.004	3,673	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	581,112.69 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	13.66 bn kWh	626,519.29 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	23.36 m t	1,071.52 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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:	2,466,260	113	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	24,426,000	1120	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	9,552	0	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	7,437,723	341	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Sri Lanka	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.60	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.96	2.59
Diabetes:	10.7 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.01 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.6 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	85.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	22.9 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Sri Lanka and United States

	Sri Lanka	United States
Daytime temperatures:	28.9 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.5 °C	7.3 °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 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
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 %