Country comparison Netherlands : United States

General information

	Netherlands	United States
Region:	Western Europe	North America
Area:	41,543 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Dutch	English
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1648 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Amsterdam	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Netherlands	United States
Population:	17,345,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	417.5	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 84 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 41.8 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	9.70 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	8.80 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.90 ‰	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)

	Netherlands	United States
Political stability:	85	74
Civil rights:	99	83
Health:	94	74
Climate:	21	64
Cost of Living:	19	16
Popularity:	36	72

Economy

	Netherlands	United States
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.1 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	1.27 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	108.67 %	110.95 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	41.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	53,060 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	82 (good)	67 (moderate)

	NLD: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	907,051 M US$	52.30 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	920,334 M US$	53.06 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	755,771 M US$	43.57 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	661,181 M US$	38.12 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	NLD: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	139,124 km	8.02 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	3,058 km	0.18 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	6,237 km	0.36 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	1,217	0.070	3,673	0.011
Airports:	29	0.002	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	NLD: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	108.80 bn kWh	6.27 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	109.30 bn kWh	6.30 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	19.34 bn kWh	1.12 m kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	24.26 bn kWh	1.40 m kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	170.78 m t	9,846.11 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Netherlands	United States
International dialing:	+31	+1
Internet domain:	.nl	.us

	NLD total	NLD per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	5,560,000	321	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	21,762,000	1255	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	13,699,000	790	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	16,169,573	932	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Netherlands	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	4.70	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.51	2.59
Diabetes:	5.4 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.04 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	86.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	23.4 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Netherlands and United States

	Netherlands	United States
Daytime temperatures:	14.4 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	6.8 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	79 %	67 %
Rain days:	10.8	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	4.8	7.2

Native languages

	Netherlands	United States
Dutch:	95.6 %	n/a
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Fries:	3.7 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
Arabic:	0.9 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.8 %	n/a
French:	n/a	0.7 %
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 %
other:	-1.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Netherlands	United States
Christianity:	47.0 %	78.5 %
nondenominational:	42.0 %	n/a
Islam:	5.0 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	0.2 %	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	5.8 %	15.3 %