Country comparison Saudi Arabia : United States

General information

	Saudi Arabia	United States
Region:	Western Asia	North America
Area:	2,149,690 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Arabic	English
Government form:	Absolute monarchy	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1932 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Riyadh	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Saudi Arabia	United States
Population:	34,814,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	16.2	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 74 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 77 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 30.8 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	16.81 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	3.55 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	5.04 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Saudi Arabia	United States
Political stability:	52	63
Civil rights:	45	81
Health:	61	71
Climate:	52	66
Cost of Living:	75	38
Popularity:	54	67

Economy

	Saudi Arabia	United States
Currency:	Saudi Rial (1 SAR = 20 Qirshes = 100 Hallalas)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	7.4 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	3.06 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	44.46 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	15.70 %	36.60 %
Average income:	21,930 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	53 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	SAU: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	700,118 M US$	20.11 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	763,641 M US$	21.93 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	184,162 M US$	5.29 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	182,128 M US$	5.23 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	SAU: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	221,372 km	6.36 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Railways:	5,410 km	0.16 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Harbours:	392	0.011	3,627	0.011
Airports:	214	0.006	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	SAU: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	296.20 bn kWh	8.51 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	324.10 bn kWh	9.31 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.35 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	514.60 m t	14,781.47 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 t

Telecommunication

	Saudi Arabia	United States
International dialing:	+966	+1
Internet domain:	.sa	.us

	SAU total	SAU per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	5,749,058	165	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	43,215,439	1241	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	145,941	4	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	34,069,662	979	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	7,890,261	227	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Saudi Arabia	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.24	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.39	2.59
Diabetes:	15.8 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.07 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	90.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	14.3 %	23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Saudi Arabia and United States

	Saudi Arabia	United States
Daytime temperatures:	32.5 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	18.9 °C	7.1 °C
Rel. humidity:	42 %	67 %
Rain days:	1.0	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	8.8	7.2

Native languages

	Saudi Arabia	United States
Arabic:	95.0 %	n/a
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	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 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	5.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Saudi Arabia	United States
Islam:	99.0 %	1.1 %
Christianity:	n/a	78.5 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	0.1 %	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	0.9 %	15.3 %