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 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Port Moresby	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Papua New Guinea	United States
Population:	8,947,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	19.3	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 63 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 66 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 24.0 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	26.52 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	7.30 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	0.00 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Papua New Guinea	United States
Political stability:	47	63
Civil rights:	31	81
Health:	19	71
Climate:	42	66
Cost of Living:	27	38
Popularity:	14	67

Economy

	Papua New Guinea	United States
Currency:	Kina (1 PGK = 100 Toea)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	2.8 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	4.48 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	82.27 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	37.10 %	36.60 %
Average income:	2,720 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	31 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	PNG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	24,669 M US$	2.76 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	24,324 M US$	2.72 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	10,597 M US$	1.18 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	4,844 M US$	0.54 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	PNG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	9,349 km	1.04 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Waterways:	11,000 km	1.23 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	177	0.020	3,627	0.011
Airports:	561	0.063	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	PNG: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	3.24 bn kWh	361,796.16 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	3.48 bn kWh	389,067.79 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.35 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	7.46 m t	833.80 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 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	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	4,018,000	449	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	5,006	1	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	1,002,890	112	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	21,000	2	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Papua New Guinea	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	4.02	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.05	2.59
Diabetes:	17.9 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.61 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	4.4 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	71.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	39.3 %	23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Papua New Guinea and United States

	Papua New Guinea	United States
Daytime temperatures:	30.3 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	23.0 °C	7.1 °C
Water temperature:	27.9 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	81 %	67 %
Rain days:	15.2	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.6	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 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
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 %