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 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Nay Pyi Taw	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Burma	United States
Population:	54,410,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	80.4	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 64 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 70 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 29.2 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	17.23 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	8.25 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.38 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Burma	United States
Political stability:	30	63
Civil rights:	24	81
Health:	32	71
Climate:	50	66
Cost of Living:	73	38
Popularity:	33	67

Economy

	Burma	United States
Currency:	Kyat (1 MMK = 100 Pyas)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	2.2 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	8.83 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	26.97 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	31.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,350 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	28 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	MMR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	79,852 M US$	1.47 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	73,622 M US$	1.35 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	17,523 M US$	0.32 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	17,356 M US$	0.32 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	MMR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	157,000 km	2.89 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 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	3,627	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	274,399.13 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	17.32 bn kWh	318,325.04 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.35 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	32.52 m t	597.69 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 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	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	61,144,000	1124	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	1,055	0	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	16,691,945	307	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	688,815	13	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Burma	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.04	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.86	2.59
Diabetes:	3.9 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.31 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	3.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	88.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	44.1 %	23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Burma and United States

	Burma	United States
Daytime temperatures:	32.1 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	20.9 °C	7.1 °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 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Kayah:	0.4 %	n/a
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
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 %