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:	21,919,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	334.1	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 74 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 80 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 31.4 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	15.54 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	6.75 ‰	8.70 ‰
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:	52	73
Civil rights:	44	83
Health:	60	74
Climate:	54	63
Cost of Living:	53	35
Popularity:	34	72

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:	6.15 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	35.16 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	55.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	3,720 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	38 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	LKA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	80,707 M US$	3.68 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	81,475 M US$	3.72 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	19,414 M US$	0.89 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	24,562 M US$	1.12 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	LKA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	114,093 km	5.21 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 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:	96	0.004	3,652	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	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	13.66 bn kWh	623,203.61 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:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	21.63 m t	986.82 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 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:	2,291,464	105	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	30,778,582	1404	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	9,552	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	7,477,294	341	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	1,992,429	91	120,531,000	366

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 %	0.20 %
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:	29.7 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.7 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	27.7 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	80 %	67 %
Rain days:	11.1	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 %