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

Population

	Pakistan	United States
Population:	216,565,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	272.0	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 66 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 68 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 22.5 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	28.25 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	6.94 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.92 ‰	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)

	Pakistan	United States
Political stability:	21	72
Civil rights:	28	83
Health:	32	74
Climate:	68	64
Cost of Living:	62	34
Popularity:	34	86

Economy

	Pakistan	United States
Currency:	Pakistanian Rupee (1 PKR = 100 Paisa)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.7 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	10.58 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	29.19 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	33.90 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,410 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	31 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	PAK: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	278,222 M US$	1.28 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	304,452 M US$	1.41 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	30,566 M US$	0.14 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	56,336 M US$	0.26 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	PAK: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	263,775 km	1.22 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	11,881 km	0.05 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Harbours:	54	0.000	3,673	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	426,337.89 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	109.70 bn kWh	506,544.64 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:	490.00 m kWh	2,262.60 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	201.15 m t	928.82 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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:	2,461,920	11	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	165,406,000	764	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	365,813	2	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	36,969,649	171	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Pakistan	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.60	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.98	2.59
Diabetes:	19.9 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.20 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	2.6 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	93.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	20.0 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Pakistan and United States

	Pakistan	United States
Daytime temperatures:	31.3 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	17.5 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	53 %	67 %
Rain days:	3.3	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	8.1	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 %
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 %
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 %