Country comparison Latvia : United States

General information

	Latvia	United States
Region:	Northern Europe	North America
Area:	64,490 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Latvian	English
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1991 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Riga	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Latvia	United States
Population:	1,902,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	29.5	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 71 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 80 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 44.4 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	9.80 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	14.50 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-5.32 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Latvia	United States
Political stability:	73	63
Civil rights:	74	81
Health:	77	71
Climate:	19	66
Cost of Living:	55	38
Popularity:	24	67

Economy

	Latvia	United States
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	7.6 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	3.28 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	67.93 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	38.10 %	36.60 %
Average income:	17,890 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	59 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	LVA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	33,707 M US$	17.73 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	34,007 M US$	17.88 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	24,862 M US$	13.07 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	25,674 M US$	13.50 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	LVA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	70,244 km	36.94 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	1,860 km	0.98 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	300 km	0.16 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	70	0.037	3,627	0.011
Airports:	42	0.022	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	LVA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	6.80 bn kWh	3.57 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	6.24 bn kWh	3.28 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	3.80 bn kWh	2.00 m kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	4.83 bn kWh	2.54 m kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	7.63 m t	4,012.52 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Latvia	United States
International dialing:	+371	+1
Internet domain:	.lv	.us

	LVA total	LVA per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	211,849	111	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	2,051,359	1079	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	359,604	189	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	1,690,437	889	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	490,569	258	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Latvia	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	5.49	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.19	2.59
Diabetes:	5.0 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.38 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.2 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	85.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	37.2 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Latvia and United States

	Latvia	United States
Daytime temperatures:	10.9 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	3.2 °C	7.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	80 %	67 %
Rain days:	10.2	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.0	7.2

Native languages

	Latvia	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Latvian:	56.3 %	n/a
Russian:	33.8 %	0.2 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Ukrainian:	2.2 %	n/a
Polish:	1.8 %	0.3 %
Lithuanian:	1.1 %	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 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	4.8 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Latvia	United States
Christianity:	35.9 %	78.5 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	64.1 %	15.3 %