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 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Niamey	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Niger	United States
Population:	24,207,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	19.1	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 62 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 64 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 14.8 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	45.21 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	7.82 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.66 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Niger	United States
Political stability:	37	63
Civil rights:	31	81
Health:	8	71
Climate:	38	66
Cost of Living:	53	38
Popularity:	39	67

Economy

	Niger	United States
Currency:	West African Franc	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	0.8 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	3.84 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	42.91 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	47.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	550 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	31 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	NER: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	13,741 M US$	0.57 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	13,301 M US$	0.55 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	1,338 M US$	0.06 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	3,542 M US$	0.15 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	NER: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	18,949 km	0.78 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Waterways:	300 km	0.01 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	1	0.000	3,627	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	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	494.70 m kWh	20,436.54 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:	779.00 m kWh	32,181.26 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	2.29 m t	94.60 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 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	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	8,778,880	363	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	454	0	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	1,270,967	53	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	12,000	0	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Niger	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.39	2.87
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 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	7.4 %	23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Niger and United States

	Niger	United States
Daytime temperatures:	36.5 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.1 °C	7.1 °C
Rel. humidity:	39 %	67 %
Rain days:	3.3	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 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	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:	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 %