Country comparison Sao Tome and Principe : United States

General information

	Sao Tome and Principe	United States
Region:	Central Africa	North America
Area:	960 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Portuguese	English
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1975 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	São Tomé	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Sao Tome and Principe	United States
Population:	219,161	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	228.3	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 68 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 73 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 19.3 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	30.81 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	4.71 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-7.57 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Sao Tome and Principe	United States
Political stability:	48	60
Civil rights:	43	81
Health:	38	71
Climate:	49	66
Cost of Living:	54	23
Popularity:	15	67

Economy

	Sao Tome and Principe	United States
Currency:	Dobra (1 STD = 100 Centimes)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	15.9 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	7.86 %	4.70 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	37.00 %	36.60 %
Average income:	2,060 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	45 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	STP: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	473 M US$	2.16 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	452 M US$	2.06 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	49 M US$	0.23 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	160 M US$	0.73 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	STP: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,300 km	5.93 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Harbours:	17	0.078	3,627	0.011
Airports:	2	0.009	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	STP: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	61.38 m kWh	280,068.08 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	66.00 m kWh	301,148.47 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:	140,000.00 t	638.80 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 t

Telecommunication

	Sao Tome and Principe	United States
International dialing:	+239	+1
Internet domain:	.st	.us

	STP total	STP per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	2,720	12	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	174,203	795	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	1,678	8	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	70,132	320	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	2,512	11	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Sao Tome and Principe	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.90	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.32	2.59
Diabetes:	2.4 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	1.2 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	70.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	5.7 %	23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Sao Tome and Principe and United States

	Sao Tome and Principe	United States
Daytime temperatures:	28.6 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.6 °C	7.1 °C
Rel. humidity:	84 %	67 %
Rain days:	8.5	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	4.6	7.2

Native languages

	Sao Tome and Principe	United States
English:	4.9 %	82.1 %
Forro:	36.2 %	n/a
Portuguese:	34.6 %	0.2 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Cape Verdean:	8.5 %	n/a
French:	6.8 %	0.7 %
Angolar:	6.6 %	n/a
Lunguie:	1.0 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
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 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	1.4 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Sao Tome and Principe	United States
Christianity:	69.3 %	78.5 %
Nondenominational:	21.2 %	n/a
Mana:	2.3 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	7.2 %	15.3 %