Country comparison Namibia : United States

General information

	Namibia	United States
Region:	Southern Africa	North America
Area:	824,290 km²	9,831,510 km²
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1990 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Windhoek	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Namibia	United States
Population:	2,541,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.1	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 61 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 67 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 21.2 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	28.15 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	7.89 ‰	8.70 ‰
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)

	Namibia	United States
Political stability:	63	68
Civil rights:	57	81
Health:	29	74
Climate:	68	62
Cost of Living:	56	16
Popularity:	32	72

Economy

	Namibia	United States
Currency:	Namibian Dollar (1 NAD = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	20.4 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	2.21 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	48.46 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	20.70 %	36.60 %
Average income:	4,520 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	51 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	NAM: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	10,700 M US$	4.21 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	11,486 M US$	4.52 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	3,557 M US$	1.40 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	4,543 M US$	1.79 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	NAM: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	48,875 km	19.24 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	2,628 km	1.03 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Harbours:	14	0.006	3,652	0.011
Airports:	112	0.044	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	NAM: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	3.89 bn kWh	1.53 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	1.40 bn kWh	552,163.08 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	88.00 m kWh	34,633.18 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	3.07 bn kWh	1.21 m kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	4.25 m t	1,672.63 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Namibia	United States
International dialing:	+264	+1
Internet domain:	.na	.us

	NAM total	NAM per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	139,698	55	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	2,823,655	1111	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	78,280	31	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	1,295,867	510	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	71,063	28	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Namibia	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.70	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.37	2.59
Diabetes:	4.5 %	10.8 %
HIV:	4.23 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	4.9 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	86.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	17.9 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Namibia and United States

	Namibia	United States
Daytime temperatures:	29.7 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	14.2 °C	7.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	41 %	67 %
Rain days:	3.4	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.7	7.2

Native languages

	Namibia	United States
English:	3.4 %	82.1 %
Ovambo:	48.9 %	n/a
Nama:	11.3 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Afrikaans:	10.4 %	n/a
Herero:	8.6 %	n/a
Kavango:	8.5 %	n/a
Caprivi:	4.8 %	n/a
San:	1.9 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
German:	0.9 %	0.6 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
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 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	1.3 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Namibia	United States
Christianity:	85.0 %	78.5 %
Native religions:	14.0 %	n/a
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:	1.0 %	15.3 %