Country comparison Nepal : United States

General information

	Nepal	United States
Region:	South Asia	North America
Area:	147,180 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Nepali	English
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1769 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Kathmandu	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Nepal	United States
Population:	28,609,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	194.4	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 69 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 72 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 22.4 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	19.89 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	6.36 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-4.12 ‰	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)

	Nepal	United States
Political stability:	43	73
Civil rights:	34	83
Health:	34	74
Climate:	58	64
Cost of Living:	58	13
Popularity:	24	86

Economy

	Nepal	United States
Currency:	Nepalese Rupee (1 NPR = 2 Mohur = 100 Paisa)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.4 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	5.57 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	33.79 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	41.80 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,090 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	33 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	NPL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	30,641 M US$	1.07 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	31,059 M US$	1.09 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	2,728 M US$	0.10 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	13,835 M US$	0.48 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	NPL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	27,990 km	0.98 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	59 km	0.00 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Airports:	47	0.002	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	NPL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	4.98 bn kWh	174,177.72 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	4.24 bn kWh	148,346.43 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	2.69 m kWh	94.03 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	2.18 bn kWh	76,025.80 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	9.11 m t	318.27 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Nepal	United States
International dialing:	+977	+1
Internet domain:	.np	.us

	NPL total	NPL per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	799,368	28	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	39,178,500	1369	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	41,256	1	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	9,726,961	340	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Nepal	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.30	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.65	2.59
Diabetes:	7.2 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.05 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	2.4 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	91.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	31.9 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Nepal and United States

	Nepal	United States
Daytime temperatures:	25.7 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	14.0 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	76 %	67 %
Rain days:	9.5	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.1	7.2

Native languages

	Nepal	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Nepali:	44.6 %	n/a
Maithili:	11.7 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Bhojpuri:	6.0 %	n/a
Tamang:	5.1 %	n/a
Tharu:	5.1 %	n/a
Newari:	3.2 %	n/a
Bajjika:	3.0 %	n/a
Magar:	3.0 %	n/a
Urdu:	2.6 %	n/a
Avadhi:	1.9 %	n/a
Limbu:	1.3 %	n/a
Gurung:	1.2 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
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:	11.3 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Nepal	United States
Hinduism:	81.3 %	1.0 %
Christianity:	1.4 %	78.5 %
Buddhism:	9.0 %	0.7 %
Islam:	4.4 %	1.1 %
Kirant:	3.1 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
other:	0.8 %	15.3 %