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:	19,286,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	80.9	33.5
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 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	13.40 ‰	8.70 ‰
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:	67	67
Civil rights:	57	81
Health:	74	74
Climate:	35	62
Cost of Living:	66	35
Popularity:	34	72

Economy

	Romania	United States
Currency:	Leu (1 RON = 100 Bani)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.8 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	2.63 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	50.90 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	20.00 %	36.60 %
Average income:	12,570 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	44 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	ROU: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	248,716 M US$	12.90 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	242,427 M US$	12.57 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	93,011 M US$	4.82 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	104,161 M US$	5.40 M US$	2,808,955 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:	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	3,652	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:	3,380,000	175	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	22,671,000	1176	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	2,667,000	138	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	14,205,673	737	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	5,685,000	295	120,531,000	366

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 %	0.20 %
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:	16.1 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	5.5 °C	7.2 °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 %
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 %