Country comparison Syria : United States

General information

	Syria	United States
Region:	Western Asia	North America
Area:	185,180 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Arabic	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1941 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Damascus	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Syria	United States
Population:	17,501,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	94.5	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 68 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 22.4 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	23.22 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	5.11 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	34.34 ‰	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)

	Syria	United States
Political stability:	8	74
Civil rights:	1	83
Health:	46	74
Climate:	63	64
Cost of Living:	82	16
Popularity:	49	72

Economy

	Syria	United States
Currency:	Syrian Pound (1 SYP = 100 Piastres)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	9.0 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	36.70 %	1.23 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	42.70 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,820 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	14 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	SYR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	40,405 M US$	2.31 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	36,176 M US$	2.07 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	19,606 M US$	1.12 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	19,409 M US$	1.11 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	SYR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	69,873 km	3.99 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	2,052 km	0.12 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	900 km	0.05 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	25	0.001	3,673	0.011
Airports:	90	0.005	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	SYR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	14.16 bn kWh	809,112.48 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	17.07 bn kWh	975,391.95 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	262.00 m kWh	14,970.87 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:	27.91 m t	1,594.80 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Syria	United States
International dialing:	+963	+1
Internet domain:	.sy	.us

	SYR total	SYR per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	2,843,100	162	107,281,000	326
Mobile phones:	19,387,600	1108	404,577,000	1228
Internet server:	416	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	5,847,102	334	286,441,830	869

Healthcare system

	Syria	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.50	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.22	2.59
Diabetes:	13.5 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.01 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.2 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	89.0 %	79.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Syria and United States

	Syria	United States
Daytime temperatures:	25.3 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	13.5 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	21.6 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	58 %	67 %
Rain days:	4.0	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.7	7.2

Native languages

	Syria	United States
Arabic:	90.0 %	n/a
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Kurdish:	9.0 %	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 %
other:	1.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Syria	United States
Islam:	89.0 %	1.1 %
Christianity:	10.0 %	78.5 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Yazidism:	0.8 %	n/a
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	0.2 %	15.3 %