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

Population

	Rwanda	United States
Population:	12,627,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	479.4	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 67 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 71 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 18.2 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	31.70 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	5.21 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-3.27 ‰	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)

	Rwanda	United States
Political stability:	63	73
Civil rights:	48	83
Health:	29	74
Climate:	53	64
Cost of Living:	57	13
Popularity:	23	86

Economy

	Rwanda	United States
Currency:	Rwandan Franc (1 RWF = 100 Centimes)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	1.4 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	3.35 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	37.79 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	33.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	830 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	54 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	RWA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	10,354 M US$	0.82 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	10,448 M US$	0.83 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	2,247 M US$	0.18 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	3,737 M US$	0.30 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	RWA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	4,700 km	0.37 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 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	41,759.89 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	525.00 m kWh	41,577.74 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	4.00 m kWh	316.78 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	42.00 m kWh	3,326.22 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	1.11 m t	88.28 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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:	11,393	1	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	9,658,550	765	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	1,447	0	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	2,748,584	218	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Rwanda	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.60	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.13	2.59
Diabetes:	5.1 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.76 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.6 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	86.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	13.3 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Rwanda and United States

	Rwanda	United States
Daytime temperatures:	26.4 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	15.7 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	76 %	67 %
Rain days:	12.4	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	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 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
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 %