Country comparison Philippines : United States

General information

	Philippines	United States
Region:	Southeast Asia	North America
Area:	300,000 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Tagalog	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1946 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Manila	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Philippines	United States
Population:	109,581,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	365.3	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 67 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 76 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 23.0 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	20.17 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	5.92 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.75 ‰	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)

	Philippines	United States
Political stability:	52	67
Civil rights:	40	81
Health:	45	74
Climate:	43	62
Cost of Living:	46	35
Popularity:	31	72

Economy

	Philippines	United States
Currency:	Philippine Peso (1 PHP = 100 Centavos)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	3.4 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	2.64 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	45.31 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	43.10 %	36.60 %
Average income:	3,430 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	34 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	PHL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	361,489 M US$	3.30 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	375,998 M US$	3.43 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	78,822 M US$	0.72 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	97,581 M US$	0.89 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	PHL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	216,387 km	1.97 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	77 km	0.00 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	3,219 km	0.03 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	1,747	0.016	3,652	0.011
Airports:	247	0.002	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	PHL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	78.30 bn kWh	714,539.38 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	86.59 bn kWh	790,191.12 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:	142.24 m t	1,298.03 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Philippines	United States
International dialing:	+63	+1
Internet domain:	.ph	.us

	PHL total	PHL per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	4,255,808	39	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	167,322,432	1527	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	425,812	4	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	47,149,028	430	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	5,920,087	54	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Philippines	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.00	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.28	2.59
Diabetes:	7.1 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.29 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	5.5 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	83.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	24.3 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Philippines and United States

	Philippines	United States
Daytime temperatures:	31.9 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	23.9 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	27.5 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	81 %	67 %
Rain days:	11.5	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.3	7.2

Native languages

	Philippines	United States
English:	2.2 %	82.1 %
Tagalog:	29.3 %	0.4 %
Cebuano:	23.3 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Ilocano:	9.3 %	n/a
Hiligaynon:	9.1 %	n/a
Bicol:	5.7 %	n/a
Waray-waray:	3.8 %	n/a
Pampango:	3.0 %	n/a
Kapampangan:	2.2 %	n/a
Chinese:	1.9 %	0.9 %
Pangasinan:	1.8 %	n/a
Maguindanao:	1.4 %	n/a
Maranao:	1.3 %	n/a
Kinaray-a:	1.0 %	n/a
Tausug:	0.9 %	n/a
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Surigaonon:	0.6 %	n/a
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Chavacano:	0.6 %	n/a
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:	2.6 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Philippines	United States
Christianity:	92.5 %	78.5 %
Islam:	5.0 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
nondenominational:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	2.4 %	15.3 %