Country comparison Pakistan : United States

General information

	Pakistan	United States
Region:	South Asia	North America
Area:	796,100 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Urdu	English
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1947 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Islamabad	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Pakistan	United States
Population:	220,892,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	277.5	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 66 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 68 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 22.0 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	27.84 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	6.89 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.92 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Pakistan	United States
Political stability:	23	63
Civil rights:	26	81
Health:	31	71
Climate:	72	66
Cost of Living:	62	38
Popularity:	41	67

Economy

	Pakistan	United States
Currency:	Pakistanian Rupee (1 PKR = 100 Paisa)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.4 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	9.50 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	25.78 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	33.90 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,270 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	28 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	PAK: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	262,610 M US$	1.19 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	280,504 M US$	1.27 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	35,516 M US$	0.16 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	76,341 M US$	0.35 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	PAK: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	263,775 km	1.19 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	11,881 km	0.05 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Harbours:	57	0.000	3,627	0.011
Airports:	151	0.001	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	PAK: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	92.33 bn kWh	417,986.44 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	109.70 bn kWh	496,622.04 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:	490.00 m kWh	2,218.28 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	208.37 m t	943.31 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Pakistan	United States
International dialing:	+92	+1
Internet domain:	.pk	.us

	PAK total	PAK per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	2,876,794	13	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	175,624,364	795	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	365,813	2	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	37,708,313	171	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	2,523,027	11	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Pakistan	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.63	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.98	2.59
Diabetes:	19.9 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.20 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	2.6 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	93.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	20.8 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Pakistan and United States

	Pakistan	United States
Daytime temperatures:	30.8 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	17.1 °C	7.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	55 %	67 %
Rain days:	3.8	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	8.0	7.2

Native languages

	Pakistan	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Punjabi:	48.2 %	n/a
Pashto:	13.1 %	n/a
Sindhi:	11.8 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Saraiki:	9.8 %	n/a
Urdu:	7.6 %	n/a
Balochi:	3.0 %	n/a
Hindko:	2.4 %	n/a
Brahui:	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 %
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:	2.9 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Pakistan	United States
Islam:	95.0 %	1.1 %
Christianity:	1.6 %	78.5 %
Hinduism:	2.0 %	1.0 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	1.4 %	15.3 %