Country comparison New Zealand : United States

General information

	New Zealand	United States
Region:	Australia/New Zealand	North America
Area:	267,710 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	English	English
Government form:	Parliamentary democracy (under constitutional monarchy)	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1907 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Wellington	Washington, D.C.

Population

	New Zealand	United States
Population:	5,084,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	19.0	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 80 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 84 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 37.2 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	11.96 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	6.87 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	6.89 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	New Zealand	United States
Political stability:	90	63
Civil rights:	100	81
Health:	81	71
Climate:	36	66
Cost of Living:	27	38
Popularity:	39	67

Economy

	New Zealand	United States
Currency:	New Zealand Dollar (1 NZD = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.1 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	3.94 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	114.28 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	34.60 %	36.60 %
Average income:	41,550 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	88 (good)	67 (moderate)

	NZL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	210,701 M US$	41.44 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	211,248 M US$	41.55 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	50,544 M US$	9.94 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	48,091 M US$	9.46 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	NZL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	94,000 km	18.49 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	4,128 km	0.81 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Harbours:	115	0.023	3,627	0.011
Airports:	123	0.024	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	NZL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	39.50 bn kWh	7.77 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	42.53 bn kWh	8.36 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	32.21 m t	6,335.19 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	New Zealand	United States
International dialing:	+64	+1
Internet domain:	.nz	.us

	NZL total	NZL per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	1,760,000	346	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	6,400,000	1259	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	3,026,000	595	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	4,617,109	908	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	1,764,984	347	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	New Zealand	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.57	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.03	2.59
Diabetes:	6.2 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.04 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	83.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	14.2 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: New Zealand and United States

	New Zealand	United States
Daytime temperatures:	17.4 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	9.1 °C	7.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	82 %	67 %
Rain days:	10.6	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.8	7.2

Native languages

	New Zealand	United States
English:	72.6 %	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Te Reo Māori:	3.5 %	n/a
Chinese:	2.2 %	0.9 %
Samoan:	2.0 %	n/a
Hindi:	1.6 %	n/a
French:	1.2 %	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	16.9 %	2.6 %

Religions

	New Zealand	United States
Christianity:	44.3 %	78.5 %
Nondenominational:	38.5 %	n/a
Hinduism:	2.1 %	1.0 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	0.8 %	1.6 %
Buddhism:	1.4 %	0.7 %
Maori:	1.3 %	n/a
Islam:	1.1 %	1.1 %
other:	10.5 %	15.3 %