Country comparison Madagascar : United States

General information

	Madagascar	United States
Region:	Eastern Africa	North America
Area:	587,295 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Malagasy	English
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1960 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Antananarivo	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Madagascar	United States
Population:	26,969,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	45.9	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 65 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 68 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 18.4 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	32.66 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	6.06 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	0.00 ‰	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)

	Madagascar	United States
Political stability:	46	72
Civil rights:	27	83
Health:	24	74
Climate:	77	64
Cost of Living:	65	34
Popularity:	14	86

Economy

	Madagascar	United States
Currency:	Malagasy Ariary (1 MGA = 5 Iraimbilanja)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	1.9 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	5.61 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	34.59 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	38.30 %	36.60 %
Average income:	520 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	25 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	MDG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	14,115 M US$	0.52 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	14,072 M US$	0.52 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	4,092 M US$	0.15 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	4,697 M US$	0.17 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	MDG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	31,640 km	1.17 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	836 km	0.03 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	600 km	0.02 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	28	0.001	3,673	0.011
Airports:	83	0.003	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	MDG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	1.59 bn kWh	58,844.67 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	1.71 bn kWh	63,257.09 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:	3.91 m t	144.81 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Madagascar	United States
International dialing:	+261	+1
Internet domain:	.mg	.us

	MDG total	MDG per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	69,046	3	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	10,654,700	395	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	38,392	1	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	2,642,992	98	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Madagascar	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.20	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.18	2.59
Diabetes:	4.5 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.40 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	2.3 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	83.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	28.9 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Madagascar and United States

	Madagascar	United States
Daytime temperatures:	28.3 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	18.7 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	25.2 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	67 %
Rain days:	10.5	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	8.0	7.2

Native languages

	Madagascar	United States
Malagasy:	95.4 %	n/a
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
French:	2.3 %	0.7 %
Comorian:	1.7 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Swahili:	0.4 %	n/a
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 %
other:	0.2 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Madagascar	United States
Christianity:	41.0 %	78.5 %
Native religions:	52.0 %	n/a
Islam:	7.0 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	0.0 %	15.3 %