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 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Wellington	Washington, D.C.

Population

	New Zealand	United States
Population:	4,917,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	18.4	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 80 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 84 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 37.0 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	11.98 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	6.86 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	6.89 ‰	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)

	New Zealand	United States
Political stability:	93	72
Civil rights:	100	83
Health:	82	74
Climate:	38	64
Cost of Living:	30	34
Popularity:	52	86

Economy

	New Zealand	United States
Currency:	New Zealand Dollar (1 NZD = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.6 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	1.62 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	117.52 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	34.60 %	36.60 %
Average income:	42,760 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	88 (good)	67 (moderate)

	NZL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	206,929 M US$	42.08 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	210,229 M US$	42.76 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	57,156 M US$	11.62 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	57,747 M US$	11.74 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	NZL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	94,000 km	19.12 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	4,128 km	0.84 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Harbours:	113	0.023	3,673	0.011
Airports:	123	0.025	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	NZL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	39.50 bn kWh	8.03 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	42.53 bn kWh	8.65 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	34.38 m t	6,992.43 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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	358	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	6,400,000	1302	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	3,026,000	615	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	4,465,182	908	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	New Zealand	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.80	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.03	2.59
Diabetes:	6.2 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.06 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	84.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	14.8 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: New Zealand and United States

	New Zealand	United States
Daytime temperatures:	17.3 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	8.9 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	82 %	67 %
Rain days:	10.7	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.7	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 %
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:	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 %