Country comparison Burma : United States

General information

	Burma	United States
Region:	Southeast Asia	North America
Area:	676,590 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Burmese	English
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1948 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Nay Pyi Taw	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Burma	United States
Population:	54,045,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	79.9	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 64 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 70 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 29.0 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	17.55 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	8.20 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.38 ‰	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)

	Burma	United States
Political stability:	29	72
Civil rights:	25	83
Health:	29	74
Climate:	44	64
Cost of Living:	72	34
Popularity:	24	86

Economy

	Burma	United States
Currency:	Kyat (1 MMK = 100 Pyas)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	1.8 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	8.83 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	33.82 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	31.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,390 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	28 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	MMR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	76,086 M US$	1.41 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	75,186 M US$	1.39 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	17,523 M US$	0.32 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	17,356 M US$	0.32 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	MMR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	157,000 km	2.90 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	5,031 km	0.09 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	12,800 km	0.24 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	95	0.002	3,673	0.011
Airports:	64	0.001	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	MMR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	14.93 bn kWh	276,249.13 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	17.32 bn kWh	320,471.19 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:	25.28 m t	467.76 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Burma	United States
International dialing:	+95	+1
Internet domain:	.mm	.us

	MMR total	MMR per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	520,863	10	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	61,144,000	1131	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	1,055	0	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	16,580,162	307	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Burma	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.90	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.86	2.59
Diabetes:	3.9 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.31 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	3.2 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	88.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	45.5 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Burma and United States

	Burma	United States
Daytime temperatures:	32.1 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	20.9 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	27.7 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	76 %	67 %
Rain days:	9.4	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.8	7.2

Native languages

	Burma	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Burmese:	69.0 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Shan:	8.5 %	n/a
Karen:	6.2 %	n/a
Rakhine:	4.5 %	n/a
Mon:	2.4 %	n/a
Chin:	2.2 %	n/a
Kachin:	1.4 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Kayah:	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:	5.4 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Burma	United States
Buddhism:	89.0 %	0.7 %
Christianity:	4.0 %	78.5 %
Islam:	4.0 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Animism:	1.0 %	n/a
Hinduism:	0.5 %	1.0 %
other:	1.5 %	15.3 %