Country comparison Papua New Guinea : United States

General information

	Papua New Guinea	United States
Region:	Melanesia	North America
Area:	462,840 km²	9,831,510 km²
Government form:	Parliamentary democracy (under constitutional monarchy)	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1975 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Port Moresby	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Papua New Guinea	United States
Population:	8,776,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	19.0	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 63 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 66 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 20.9 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	27.07 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	7.43 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	0.00 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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	Papua New Guinea	United States
Political stability:	47	72
Civil rights:	32	83
Health:	19	74
Climate:	42	64
Cost of Living:	27	38
Popularity:	14	86

Economy

	Papua New Guinea	United States
Currency:	Kina (1 PGK = 100 Toea)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	2.7 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	3.64 %	1.81 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	37.10 %	36.60 %
Average income:	2,750 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	28 (very bad)	69 (moderate)

	PNG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	24,829 M US$	2.83 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	24,151 M US$	2.75 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	10,597 M US$	1.21 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	4,844 M US$	0.55 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	PNG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	9,349 km	1.07 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Waterways:	11,000 km	1.25 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	171	0.019	3,673	0.011
Airports:	561	0.064	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	PNG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	3.24 bn kWh	368,842.27 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	3.48 bn kWh	396,645.03 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:	7.54 m t	858.66 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Papua New Guinea	United States
International dialing:	+675	+1
Internet domain:	.pg	.us

	PNG total	PNG per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	158,000	18	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	4,018,000	458	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	5,006	1	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	983,732	112	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Papua New Guinea	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	4.02	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.05	2.59
Diabetes:	17.9 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.61 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	4.3 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	73.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	36.3 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Papua New Guinea and United States

	Papua New Guinea	United States
Daytime temperatures:	30.1 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.7 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	27.9 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	81 %	67 %
Rain days:	14.8	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.8	7.2

Native languages

	Papua New Guinea	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Papuan languages:	78.1 %	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 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	21.9 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Papua New Guinea	United States
Christianity:	96.4 %	78.5 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
Bahaism:	0.3 %	n/a
other:	3.3 %	15.3 %