Country comparison Oman : United States

General information

	Oman	United States
Region:	Western Asia	North America
Area:	309,500 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Arabic	English
Government form:	Absolute monarchy	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1951 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Muscat	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Oman	United States
Population:	5,107,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	16.5	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 76 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 80 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 26.3 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	18.51 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	2.42 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.44 ‰	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)

	Oman	United States
Political stability:	72	67
Civil rights:	52	81
Health:	64	74
Climate:	38	62
Cost of Living:	67	35
Popularity:	32	72

Economy

	Oman	United States
Currency:	Omani Rial (1 OMR = 1000 Baizas)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	5.0 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	-0.90 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	57.58 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	27.40 %	36.60 %
Average income:	14,150 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	54 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	OMN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	76,332 M US$	14.95 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	70,400 M US$	13.79 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	43,687 M US$	8.55 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	32,550 M US$	6.37 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	OMN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	60,230 km	11.79 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Harbours:	55	0.011	3,652	0.011
Airports:	132	0.026	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	OMN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	28.92 bn kWh	5.66 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	32.16 bn kWh	6.30 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:	73.37 m t	14,367.62 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Oman	United States
International dialing:	+968	+1
Internet domain:	.om	.us

	OMN total	OMN per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	592,196	116	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	6,383,458	1250	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	14,531	3	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	4,718,950	924	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	508,949	100	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Oman	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.60	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.97	2.59
Diabetes:	10.1 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.07 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	52.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	9.6 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Oman and United States

	Oman	United States
Daytime temperatures:	33.6 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	23.3 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	26.8 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	65 %	67 %
Rain days:	1.1	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.0	7.2

Native languages

	Oman	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Arabic:	76.7 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	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 %
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:	23.3 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Oman	United States
Islam:	85.9 %	1.1 %
Christianity:	6.5 %	78.5 %
Hinduism:	5.3 %	1.0 %
Jewry:	0.1 %	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Buddhism:	0.8 %	0.7 %
other:	1.4 %	15.3 %