Country comparison Rwanda : United States

General information

	Rwanda	United States
Region:	Eastern Africa	North America
Area:	26,340 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Kinyarwanda	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1962 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Kigali	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Rwanda	United States
Population:	12,952,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	491.7	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 67 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 71 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 19.7 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	30.73 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	5.05 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-3.27 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Rwanda	United States
Political stability:	68	60
Civil rights:	48	81
Health:	27	71
Climate:	60	66
Cost of Living:	58	23
Popularity:	37	67

Economy

	Rwanda	United States
Currency:	Rwandan Franc (1 RWF = 100 Centimes)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	1.6 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	-0.39 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	29.86 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	33.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	780 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	53 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	RWA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	10,334 M US$	0.80 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	10,072 M US$	0.78 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	1,929 M US$	0.15 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	3,578 M US$	0.28 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	RWA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	4,700 km	0.36 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Airports:	7	0.001	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	RWA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	527.30 m kWh	40,711.20 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	525.00 m kWh	40,533.63 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	4.00 m kWh	308.83 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	42.00 m kWh	3,242.69 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	1.08 m t	83.38 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Rwanda	United States
International dialing:	+250	+1
Internet domain:	.rw	.us

	RWA total	RWA per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	11,671	1	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	10,614,408	820	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	1,447	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	3,367,574	260	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	17,685	1	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Rwanda	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.60	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.13	2.59
Diabetes:	5.1 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.58 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.6 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	87.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	14.1 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Rwanda and United States

	Rwanda	United States
Daytime temperatures:	26.6 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	16.0 °C	7.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	74 %	67 %
Rain days:	10.9	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.3	7.2

Native languages

	Rwanda	United States
Kinyarwanda:	93.2 %	n/a
English:	0.1 %	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	0.1 %	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 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	6.6 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Rwanda	United States
Christianity:	93.4 %	78.5 %
Nondenominational:	3.6 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Islam:	1.8 %	1.1 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
Animism:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	1.1 %	15.3 %