Country comparison Sweden : United States

General information

	Sweden	United States
Region:	Northern Europe	North America
Area:	447,430 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Swedish	English
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	836 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Stockholm	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Sweden	United States
Population:	10,285,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	23.0	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 84 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 41.0 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	11.40 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	9.10 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	4.87 ‰	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)

	Sweden	United States
Political stability:	85	72
Civil rights:	100	83
Health:	87	74
Climate:	18	64
Cost of Living:	41	34
Popularity:	52	86

Economy

	Sweden	United States
Currency:	Swedish Krone (1 SEK = 100 Öre)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	8.5 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	1.78 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	114.57 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	49.10 %	36.60 %
Average income:	55,780 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	85 (good)	67 (moderate)

	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	530,884 M US$	51.62 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	573,771 M US$	55.78 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	251,661 M US$	24.47 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	232,791 M US$	22.63 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	573,134 km	55.72 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	14,127 km	1.37 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	2,052 km	0.20 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	360	0.035	3,673	0.011
Airports:	231	0.022	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	133.50 bn kWh	12.98 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	152.90 bn kWh	14.87 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	26.02 bn kWh	2.53 m kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	14.29 bn kWh	1.39 m kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	43.25 m t	4,205.19 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Sweden	United States
International dialing:	+46	+1
Internet domain:	.se	.us

	SWE total	SWE per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	1,924,970	187	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	12,678,400	1233	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	5,978,000	581	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	9,719,074	945	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Sweden	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.60	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	5.40	2.59
Diabetes:	4.8 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	78.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	28.8 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Sweden and United States

	Sweden	United States
Daytime temperatures:	9.5 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	1.7 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	8.4 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	80 %	67 %
Rain days:	9.2	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.0	7.2

Native languages

	Sweden	United States
Swedish:	89.5 %	n/a
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	0.6 %	10.7 %
Finnish:	2.4 %	n/a
North Slavic languages:	1.3 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
Arabic:	0.8 %	n/a
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Norwegian:	0.5 %	n/a
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:	4.9 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Sweden	United States
Christianity:	87.0 %	78.5 %
Jewry:	0.2 %	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	12.8 %	15.3 %