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:	17,441,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	419.8	33.5
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	73
Civil rights:	99	83
Health:	94	74
Climate:	20	63
Cost of Living:	38	35
Popularity:	35	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:	107.62 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	41.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	53,010 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	82 (good)	67 (moderate)

	NLD: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	912,242 M US$	52.30 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	919,417 M US$	52.72 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	719,780 M US$	41.27 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	622,661 M US$	35.70 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	NLD: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	139,124 km	7.98 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 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:	1,200	0.069	3,652	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	6.24 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	109.30 bn kWh	6.27 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	19.34 bn kWh	1.11 m kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	24.26 bn kWh	1.39 m kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	151.17 m t	8,667.44 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 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	319	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	21,762,000	1248	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	13,699,000	785	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	16,270,593	933	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	7,459,000	428	114,259,000	347

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:	14.3 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	6.9 °C	7.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	80 %	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 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
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 %