Country comparison: Netherlands / United States of America

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for the Netherlands and United States. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

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

Population

Details for the Netherlands and the United States

	Netherlands	United States
Population:	17,533,000	331,894,000
Inhabitants/km²:	422.0	33.8
Life expectancy males:	Ø 80 years	Ø 74 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 79 years
Average age:	Ø 42.8 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birth rate:	10.20 ‰	11.00 ‰
Death rate:	9.80 ‰	10.40 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.89 ‰	3.01 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Netherlands	United States
Political stability:	81	67
Civil rights:	99	83
Health:	83	69
Climate:	21	66
Cost of Living:	40	34
Popularity:	36	71

Economy

Details for the Netherlands and the United States

	Netherlands	United States
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	US dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	3.5 %	3.6 %
Inflation rate:	10.00 %	8.00 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	90.02 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	41.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	55,200 US$	70,930 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):	52.33 %	128.14 %
Government debt (% of GDP):	69.86 %	115.28 %
Corruption index:	20 (good)	31 (moderate)

	NLD: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,012,847 M US$	57.77 M US$	23,315,081 M US$	70.25 M US$
Gross national product:	967,837 M US$	55.20 M US$	23,539,918 M US$	70.93 M US$
Exported goods:	839,646 M US$	47.89 M US$	2,556,638 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	735,748 M US$	41.96 M US$	3,401,688 M US$	10.25 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for the Netherlands and the United States

	NLD: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	139,124 km	7.93 km	6,586,610 km	19.85 km
Railways:	3,058 km	0.17 km	293,564 km	0.88 km
Waterways:	6,237 km	0.36 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	1,199	0.0684	3,627	0.0109
Passenger airports:	5	0.0003	436	0.0013

Energy balance

Details for the Netherlands and the United States

	NLD: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	380.26 bn kWh	21.69 m kWh	10.015 tn kWh	30.18 m kWh
Energy consumption:	109.80 bn kWh	6.26 m kWh	3.898 tn kWh	11.74 m kWh
Energy production:	117.52 bn kWh	6.70 m kWh	4.049 tn kWh	12.20 m kWh
Energy export:	22.43 bn kWh	1.28 m kWh	14.13 bn kWh	42,587.96 kWh
Energy imports:	19.77 bn kWh	1.13 m kWh	61.45 bn kWh	185,146.19 kWh
CO2 emissions:	146.34 m t	8,346.58 t	4.82 bn t	14,515.85 t

Telecommunication

Details for the Netherlands and the United States

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

	NLD total	NLD per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	5,024,000	287	101,526,000	306
Mobile cellulars:	21,888,000	1248	351,477,000	1059
Internet server:	13,699,000	781	505,000,000	1522
Internet users:	16,139,690	921	301,691,414	909
Broadband Internet:	7,614,578	434	125,885,000	379

Healthcare system

Details for the Netherlands and the United States

	Netherlands	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	3.17	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.51	2.59
Diabetes:	5.4 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.02 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.04 ‰	0.03 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	83.0 %	74.0 %
Smokers:	22.2 %	23.0 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Netherlands and United States

	Netherlands	United States
Daytime temperatures:	14.4 °C	18.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	6.9 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	80 %	67 %
Rain days:	10.7	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	4.9	7.2

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
United States
Netherlands

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 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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