Country comparison Sudan : United States

General information

	Sudan	United States
Region:	Northern Africa	North America
Area:	1,879,358 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Arabic	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1956 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Khartoum	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Sudan	United States
Population:	43,849,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	23.3	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 64 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 67 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 18.3 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	31.49 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	7.05 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.71 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Sudan	United States
Political stability:	8	63
Civil rights:	11	81
Health:	18	71
Climate:	40	66
Cost of Living:	53	38
Popularity:	25	67

Economy

	Sudan	United States
Currency:	Sudanese Pound (1 SDG = 100 Piaster)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	19.8 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	150.32 %	4.70 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	45.40 %	36.60 %
Average income:	530 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	20 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	SDN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	21,329 M US$	0.49 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	23,381 M US$	0.53 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	5,065 M US$	0.12 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	10,520 M US$	0.24 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	SDN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	31,000 km	0.71 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Railways:	7,251 km	0.17 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	4,068 km	0.09 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	15	0.000	3,627	0.011
Airports:	67	0.002	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	SDN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	12.12 bn kWh	276,401.42 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	13.99 bn kWh	319,047.51 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:	20.20 m t	460.67 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 t

Telecommunication

	Sudan	United States
International dialing:	+249	+1
Internet domain:	.sd	.us

	SDN total	SDN per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	129,408	3	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	35,195,207	803	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	99	0	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	11,137,714	254	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	28,782	1	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Sudan	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.74	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.41	2.59
Diabetes:	22.1 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.15 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.6 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	83.0 %	75.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Sudan and United States

	Sudan	United States
Daytime temperatures:	36.4 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.9 °C	7.1 °C
Water temperature:	27.8 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	40 %	67 %
Rain days:	2.5	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	8.7	7.2

Native languages

	Sudan	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Arabic:	49.4 %	n/a
Dinka:	11.5 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Nubian languages:	8.1 %	n/a
Beja:	6.4 %	n/a
Nuer:	4.9 %	n/a
Zande:	2.7 %	n/a
Bari:	2.5 %	n/a
Fur:	2.1 %	n/a
Chilluk:	1.7 %	n/a
Lotuko:	1.5 %	n/a
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 %
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:	9.2 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Sudan	United States
Christianity:	5.0 %	78.5 %
Islam:	70.0 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	25.0 %	15.3 %