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General information

 NetherlandsUnited States
Region:Western EuropeNorth America
Area:41,543 km²9,831,510 km²
Official language:DutchEnglish
Government form:Parliamentary constitutional monarchyFederal presidential republic
Independent since:1648 AD1776 AD
Capital:AmsterdamWashington, D.C.

Population

 NetherlandsUnited States
Population:17,442,000331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:419.833.7
Life expectancy males:Ø 80 yearsØ 75 years
Life expectancy females:Ø 83 yearsØ 80 years
Average age:Ø 42.8 yearsØ 38.5 years
Birthrate:9.70 ‰10.90 ‰
Deathrate:9.70 ‰10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:1.90 ‰3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

 NetherlandsUnited States
Political stability:8463
Civil rights:9881
Health:8371
Climate:2066
Cost of Living:3838
Popularity:3667

Economy

 NetherlandsUnited States
Currency: Euro
(1 EUR = 100 Cent)		US Dollar
(1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:4.0 %5.5 %
Inflation rate:2.68 %4.70 %
Cost of Living:
(USA = 100%)		99.82 %100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:41.20 %36.60 %
Average income:51,070 US$64,140 US$
Corruption index:82 (good)67 (moderate)


 NLD:
total		per 1000
inh.		USA:
total		per 1000
inh.
Gross domestic product:913,865 M US$52.40 M US$20,953,030 M US$63.21 M US$
Gross national product:890,765 M US$51.07 M US$21,261,523 M US$64.14 M US$
Exported goods:711,623 M US$40.80 M US$2,134,445 M US$6.44 M US$
Imported goods:616,298 M US$35.34 M US$2,811,124 M US$8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

 NLD:
total		per 1000
inh.		USA:
total		per 1000
inh.
Roadways:139,124 km7.98 km6,586,610 km19.87 km
Railways:3,058 km0.18 km293,564 km0.89 km
Waterways:6,237 km0.36 km41,009 km0.12 km
Harbours:1,1990.0693,6270.011
Airports:290.00213,5130.041

Energy balance

 NLD:
total		per 1000
inh.		USA:
total		per 1000
inh.
Energy consumption:108.80 bn kWh6.24 m kWh3,902.00 bn kWh11.77 m kWh
Energy production:109.30 bn kWh6.27 m kWh4,095.00 bn kWh12.35 m kWh
Energy export:19.34 bn kWh1.11 m kWh9.70 bn kWh29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:24.26 bn kWh1.39 m kWh72.72 bn kWh219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:151.17 m t8,667.26 t4.98 bn t15,026.50 t

Telecommunication

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

 NLD
total		NLD
per 1000
inh.		USA
total		USA
per 1000
inh.
Landlines:4,937,000283103,052,000311
Mobile cellulars:21,415,0001228442,457,0001335
Internet server:13,699,000785505,000,0001523
Internet users:15,929,574913294,658,590889
Broadband Internet:7,525,016431121,176,000366

Healthcare system

 NetherlandsUnited States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:3.172.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:3.512.59
Diabetes:5.4 %10.8 %
HIV:0.03 %0.20 %
Tuberculosis:0.0 %0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:86.0 %75.0 %
Smokers:22.2 %23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Netherlands and United States

 NetherlandsUnited States
Daytime temperatures:14.3 °C18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:6.9 °C7.1 °C
Rel. humidity:80 %67 %
Rain days:10.77.1
Sunshine hours per day:4.87.2

Native languages

 NetherlandsUnited States
Dutch:95.6 %n/a
English:n/a82.1 %
Spanish:n/a10.7 %
Fries:3.7 %n/a
Arabic:0.9 %n/a
Chinese:n/a0.9 %
Turkish:0.8 %n/a
French:n/a0.7 %
German:n/a0.6 %
Italian:n/a0.6 %
Tagalog:n/a0.4 %
Korean:n/a0.3 %
Polish:n/a0.3 %
Vietnamese:n/a0.2 %
Japanese:n/a0.2 %
Portuguese:n/a0.2 %
Russian:n/a0.2 %
Eskimo:n/a0.0 %
other:-1.0 %2.6 %

Religions

 NetherlandsUnited States
Christianity:47.0 %78.5 %
Nondenominational:42.0 %n/a
Islam:5.0 %1.1 %
Jewry:0.2 %1.8 %
Sikhism:n/a1.6 %
Hinduism:n/a1.0 %
Buddhism:n/a0.7 %
other:5.8 %15.3 %