Country comparison Niger : United States

General information

	Niger	United States
Region:	Western Africa	North America
Area:	1,267,000 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	French	English
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1960 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Niamey	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Niger	United States
Population:	24,207,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	19.1	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 61 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 64 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 15.0 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	45.64 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	8.03 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.66 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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	Niger	United States
Political stability:	41	67
Civil rights:	32	82
Health:	9	74
Climate:	39	63
Cost of Living:	52	35
Popularity:	35	72

Economy

	Niger	United States
Currency:	West African Franc	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	0.7 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	-2.49 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	44.77 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	540 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	32 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	NER: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	13,678 M US$	0.57 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	13,173 M US$	0.54 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	1,387 M US$	0.06 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	3,395 M US$	0.14 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	NER: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	18,949 km	0.78 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Waterways:	300 km	0.01 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	1	0.000	3,652	0.011
Airports:	30	0.001	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	NER: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	1.07 bn kWh	43,996.20 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	494.70 m kWh	20,436.54 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	779.00 m kWh	32,181.26 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	2.29 m t	94.60 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Niger	United States
International dialing:	+227	+1
Internet domain:	.ne	.us

	NER total	NER per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	114,352	5	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	8,778,880	363	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	454	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	1,270,967	53	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	8,650	0	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Niger	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.30	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.05	2.59
Diabetes:	2.4 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.07 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.8 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	83.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	8.6 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Niger and United States

	Niger	United States
Daytime temperatures:	36.5 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.1 °C	7.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	39 %	67 %
Rain days:	3.2	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	8.5	7.2

Native languages

	Niger	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Hausa:	53.1 %	n/a
Songhai-zerma:	21.2 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Tamashek:	10.4 %	n/a
Fula:	9.7 %	n/a
Kanuri:	4.4 %	n/a
French:	1.1 %	0.7 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
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:	0.1 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Niger	United States
Islam:	80.0 %	1.1 %
Christianity:	n/a	78.5 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	20.0 %	15.3 %