Country comparison Russia : United States

General information

	Russia	United States
Region:	Eastern Europe	North America
Area:	17,098,250 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Russian	English
Government form:	Federal republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1991 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Moscow	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Russia	United States
Population:	144,104,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	8.4	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 68 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 38.3 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	9.80 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	13.30 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.70 ‰	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)

	Russia	United States
Political stability:	52	67
Civil rights:	27	81
Health:	78	74
Climate:	28	62
Cost of Living:	61	35
Popularity:	43	72

Economy

	Russia	United States
Currency:	Russian Rubel (1 RUB = 100 Kopeken)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	5.7 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	3.38 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	41.96 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	46.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	10,690 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	30 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	RUS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,483,498 M US$	10.29 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	1,565,767 M US$	10.87 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	379,117 M US$	2.63 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	304,684 M US$	2.11 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	RUS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,283,387 km	8.91 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	87,157 km	0.60 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	102,000 km	0.71 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	2,808	0.019	3,652	0.011
Airports:	1,218	0.008	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	RUS: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	909.60 bn kWh	6.31 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	1,031.00 bn kWh	7.15 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	13.13 bn kWh	91,114.70 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	3.19 bn kWh	22,164.54 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	1.61 bn t	11,155.48 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Russia	United States
International dialing:	+7	+1
Internet domain:	.ru	.us

	RUS total	RUS per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	27,674,128	192	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	239,795,946	1664	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	14,865,000	103	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	119,090,727	826	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	33,872,758	235	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Russia	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	8.20	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.01	2.59
Diabetes:	6.1 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.5 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	69.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	28.3 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Russia and United States

	Russia	United States
Daytime temperatures:	8.8 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	-0.5 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	7.0 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	75 %	67 %
Rain days:	8.0	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	7.2

Native languages

	Russia	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Russian:	82.0 %	0.2 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Dolgang:	5.3 %	n/a
Tatar:	3.0 %	n/a
German:	1.5 %	0.6 %
Ukrainian:	1.3 %	n/a
Chechen:	1.0 %	n/a
Chuvash:	0.9 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
Bashkir:	0.7 %	n/a
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Mordva:	0.5 %	n/a
Mari:	0.4 %	n/a
Kazakh:	0.4 %	n/a
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Avarianian:	0.4 %	n/a
Udmur:	0.3 %	n/a
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Byelorussian:	0.3 %	n/a
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	2.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Russia	United States
Christianity:	79.6 %	78.5 %
nondenominational:	7.0 %	n/a
Islam:	4.0 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	0.1 %	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	0.6 %	0.7 %
other:	8.7 %	15.3 %