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:	10,353,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	23.1	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 41.0 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	11.10 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	8.60 ‰	8.70 ‰
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:	91	68
Civil rights:	99	81
Health:	87	74
Climate:	18	62
Cost of Living:	12	16
Popularity:	39	72

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:	0.50 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	114.86 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	49.10 %	36.60 %
Average income:	53,800 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	85 (good)	67 (moderate)

	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	537,610 M US$	51.93 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	557,012 M US$	53.80 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	240,079 M US$	23.19 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	217,680 M US$	21.02 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	573,134 km	55.36 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	14,127 km	1.36 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	2,052 km	0.20 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	368	0.036	3,652	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	12.89 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	152.90 bn kWh	14.77 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	26.02 bn kWh	2.51 m kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	14.29 bn kWh	1.38 m kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	36.00 m t	3,477.10 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 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:	1,750,989	169	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	12,895,854	1246	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	5,978,000	577	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	9,783,324	945	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	4,101,078	396	120,531,000	366

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:	9.8 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	2.0 °C	7.2 °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 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
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 %