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 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Bucharest	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Romania	United States
Population:	19,357,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	81.2	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 72 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 79 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 39.4 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	9.60 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	13.50 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.20 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Romania	United States
Political stability:	62	73
Civil rights:	55	83
Health:	74	74
Climate:	36	64
Cost of Living:	81	13
Popularity:	37	86

Economy

	Romania	United States
Currency:	Leu (1 RON = 100 Bani)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.8 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	3.83 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	51.24 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	20.00 %	36.60 %
Average income:	12,630 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	44 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	ROU: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	250,077 M US$	12.92 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	244,435 M US$	12.63 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	100,923 M US$	5.21 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	110,727 M US$	5.72 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	ROU: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	84,185 km	4.35 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	11,268 km	0.58 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	1,731 km	0.09 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	120	0.006	3,673	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	2.56 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	61.78 bn kWh	3.19 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	11.22 bn kWh	579,648.93 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	4.18 bn kWh	215,792.65 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	69.26 m t	3,578.05 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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:	3,380,000	175	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	22,671,000	1171	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	2,667,000	138	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	14,257,546	737	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Romania	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	6.30	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.26	2.59
Diabetes:	6.9 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.08 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.7 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	84.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	25.5 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Romania and United States

	Romania	United States
Daytime temperatures:	16.0 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	5.7 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	12.8 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	67 %
Rain days:	7.1	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 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	0.4 %	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 %
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 %