Country comparison Romania : United States

General information

	Romania	United States
Region:	Eastern Europe	North America
Area:	238,400 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Romanian	English
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1878 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Bucharest	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Romania	United States
Population:	19,286,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	80.9	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 71 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 42.5 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	9.60 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	13.40 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.20 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Romania	United States
Political stability:	64	63
Civil rights:	57	81
Health:	73	71
Climate:	37	66
Cost of Living:	66	38
Popularity:	33	67

Economy

	Romania	United States
Currency:	Leu (1 RON = 100 Bani)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	5.2 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	5.05 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	47.06 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	20.00 %	36.60 %
Average income:	12,600 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	45 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	ROU: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	248,716 M US$	12.90 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	242,702 M US$	12.58 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	93,039 M US$	4.82 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	103,901 M US$	5.39 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	ROU: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	84,185 km	4.37 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	10,759 km	0.56 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	1,731 km	0.09 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	121	0.006	3,627	0.011
Airports:	45	0.002	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	ROU: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	49.64 bn kWh	2.57 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	61.78 bn kWh	3.20 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	11.22 bn kWh	581,765.45 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	4.18 bn kWh	216,580.60 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	74.88 m t	3,882.58 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Romania	United States
International dialing:	+40	+1
Internet domain:	.ro	.us

	ROU total	ROU per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	3,025,000	157	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	22,592,000	1171	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	2,667,000	138	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	15,130,980	785	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	5,684,782	295	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Romania	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	6.89	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.26	2.59
Diabetes:	6.9 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.08 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.6 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	84.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	28.4 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Romania and United States

	Romania	United States
Daytime temperatures:	16.0 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	6.0 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	12.8 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	67 %
Rain days:	7.3	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.8	7.2

Native languages

	Romania	United States
Romanian:	85.4 %	n/a
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Hungarian:	6.3 %	n/a
Romany:	1.2 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	0.4 %	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Ukrainian:	0.4 %	n/a
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
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:	6.3 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Romania	United States
Christianity:	92.6 %	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 %
Nondenominational:	0.2 %	n/a
other:	7.2 %	15.3 %