Country comparison Poland : United States

General information

	Poland	United States
Region:	Eastern Europe	North America
Area:	312,680 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Polish	English
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1918 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Warsaw	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Poland	United States
Population:	37,951,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	121.4	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 73 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 81 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 41.9 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	9.90 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	10.80 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.33 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Poland	United States
Political stability:	68	63
Civil rights:	67	81
Health:	79	71
Climate:	26	66
Cost of Living:	57	38
Popularity:	70	67

Economy

	Poland	United States
Currency:	Zloty (1 PLN = 100 Groszy)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	3.4 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	5.06 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	50.18 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	40.80 %	36.60 %
Average income:	15,260 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	56 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	POL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	596,624 M US$	15.72 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	578,462 M US$	15.24 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	336,317 M US$	8.86 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	295,897 M US$	7.80 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	POL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	420,000 km	11.07 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	18,538 km	0.49 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	3,997 km	0.11 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	143	0.004	3,627	0.011
Airports:	126	0.003	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	POL: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	149.40 bn kWh	3.94 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	156.90 bn kWh	4.13 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	12.02 bn kWh	316,725.85 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	14.02 bn kWh	369,425.66 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	312.74 m t	8,240.67 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Poland	United States
International dialing:	+48	+1
Internet domain:	.pl	.us

	POL total	POL per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	5,777,428	152	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	49,350,724	1300	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	13,265,000	350	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	32,955,310	868	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	8,369,218	221	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Poland	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	6.54	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.40	2.59
Diabetes:	6.1 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	54.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	24.7 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Poland and United States

	Poland	United States
Daytime temperatures:	13.4 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	4.9 °C	7.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	76 %	67 %
Rain days:	8.6	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.1	7.2

Native languages

	Poland	United States
Polish:	97.6 %	0.3 %
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
German:	1.3 %	0.6 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Ukrainian:	0.6 %	n/a
Byelorussian:	0.5 %	n/a
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	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:	0.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Poland	United States
Christianity:	88.7 %	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 %
other:	11.3 %	15.3 %