Country comparison Puerto Rico : United States

General information

	Puerto Rico	United States
Region:	Caribbean	North America
Area:	8,870 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Spanish	English
Government form:	Presidential democracy (unincorporated territory of the US)	Federal presidential republic
Capital:	San Juan	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Puerto Rico	United States
Population:	3,194,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	360.1	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 77 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 43.6 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	6.40 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	9.40 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-13.00 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Puerto Rico	United States
Political stability:	63	67
Civil rights:	66	81
Health:	91	73
Climate:	65	62
Cost of Living:	19	16
Popularity:	10	72

Economy

	Puerto Rico	United States
Currency:	US Dollar (1 USD = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	11.2 %	8.3 %
Cost of Living:	107.98 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	64.40 %	36.60 %
Average income:	21,740 US$	64,550 US$
Corruption index:	63 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	PRI: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	103,138 M US$	32.29 M US$	20,893,746 M US$	63.41 M US$
Gross national product:	69,454 M US$	21.74 M US$	21,266,806 M US$	64.55 M US$
Exported goods:	73,170 M US$	22.91 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	49,010 M US$	15.34 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	PRI: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	26,862 km	8.41 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Airports:	29	0.009	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	PRI: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	19.48 bn kWh	6.10 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	20.95 bn kWh	6.56 m 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:	19.85 m t	6,214.71 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Puerto Rico	United States
International dialing:	+1809	+1
Internet domain:	.pr	.us

	PRI total	PRI per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	711,512	223	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	3,483,570	1091	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	469	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	2,482,928	777	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	671,284	210	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Puerto Rico	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.32	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.75	2.59
Diabetes:	13.7 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.0 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	83.0 %	75.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Puerto Rico and United States

	Puerto Rico	United States
Daytime temperatures:	30.4 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	24.1 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	27.1 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	75 %	67 %
Rain days:	13.5	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	8.1	7.2

Native languages

	Puerto Rico	United States
English:	47.4 %	82.1 %
Spanish:	51.3 %	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:	1.3 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Puerto Rico	United States
Christianity:	85.0 %	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:	15.0 %	15.3 %