Country comparison Singapore : United States

General information

	Singapore	United States
Region:	Southeast Asia	North America
Area:	719 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Chinese	English
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1965 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Singapore	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Singapore	United States
Population:	5,686,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	7,907.9	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 86 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 38.1 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	8.80 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	5.00 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.26 ‰	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)

	Singapore	United States
Political stability:	84	67
Civil rights:	89	81
Health:	80	74
Climate:	40	62
Cost of Living:	56	35
Popularity:	42	72

Economy

	Singapore	United States
Currency:	Singapore Dollar (1 SGD = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	5.2 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	-0.18 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	82.72 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	21.00 %	36.60 %
Average income:	54,920 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	85 (good)	67 (moderate)

	SGP: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	339,998 M US$	59.80 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	312,256 M US$	54.92 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	599,198 M US$	105.38 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	490,680 M US$	86.30 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	SGP: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	3,500 km	0.62 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Harbours:	3,420	0.601	3,652	0.011
Airports:	9	0.002	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	SGP: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	47.69 bn kWh	8.39 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	48.66 bn kWh	8.56 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	47.36 m t	8,329.51 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Singapore	United States
International dialing:	+65	+1
Internet domain:	.sg	.us

	SGP total	SGP per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	1,911,200	336	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	9,034,300	1589	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	1,960,000	345	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	5,057,483	889	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	1,517,600	267	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Singapore	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.40	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.31	2.59
Diabetes:	5.5 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.01 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.4 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	80.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	16.5 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Singapore and United States

	Singapore	United States
Daytime temperatures:	31.5 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	25.1 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	27.8 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	84 %	67 %
Rain days:	11.4	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.8	7.2

Native languages

	Singapore	United States
English:	29.8 %	82.1 %
Chinese:	50.8 %	0.9 %
Malay:	11.9 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Tamil:	4.4 %	n/a
Hakka:	1.2 %	n/a
Hindi:	1.2 %	n/a
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	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:	0.7 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Singapore	United States
Christianity:	18.1 %	78.5 %
Buddhism:	33.9 %	0.7 %
nondenominational:	16.4 %	n/a
Islam:	14.3 %	1.1 %
Taoism:	11.3 %	n/a
Hinduism:	5.2 %	1.0 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
other:	0.8 %	15.3 %