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

Population

	Latvia	United States
Population:	1,913,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	29.7	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 70 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 80 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 41.5 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	10.00 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	15.00 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-5.32 ‰	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)

	Latvia	United States
Political stability:	72	72
Civil rights:	72	83
Health:	77	74
Climate:	18	64
Cost of Living:	56	34
Popularity:	23	86

Economy

	Latvia	United States
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	8.2 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	2.81 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	72.52 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	38.10 %	36.60 %
Average income:	17,740 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	57 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	LVA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	34,103 M US$	17.83 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	33,932 M US$	17.74 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	20,502 M US$	10.72 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	20,788 M US$	10.87 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	LVA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	70,244 km	36.72 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	1,860 km	0.97 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	300 km	0.16 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	58	0.030	3,673	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	3.55 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	6.24 bn kWh	3.26 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	3.80 bn kWh	1.98 m kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	4.83 bn kWh	2.52 m kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	7.00 m t	3,661.65 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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:	227,616	119	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	2,071,810	1083	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	359,604	188	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	1,647,590	861	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Latvia	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	5.80	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.19	2.59
Diabetes:	5.0 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.38 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.3 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	85.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	36.7 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Latvia and United States

	Latvia	United States
Daytime temperatures:	10.9 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	4.2 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	79 %	67 %
Rain days:	10.3	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.2	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 %
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 %