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 AD	1776 AD
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 69 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 23.5 years	Ø 38.5 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)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Syria	United States
Political stability:	8	63
Civil rights:	1	81
Health:	46	71
Climate:	63	66
Cost of Living:	82	38
Popularity:	49	67

Economy

	Syria	United States
Currency:	Syrian Pound (1 SYP = 100 Piastres)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	10.6 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	36.70 %	4.70 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	42.70 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,170 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	13 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	SYR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	22,778 M US$	1.30 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	19,942 M US$	1.14 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	19,606 M US$	1.12 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	19,409 M US$	1.11 M US$	2,811,124 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:	28	0.002	3,627	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:	2,892,515	165	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	16,660,253	952	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	416	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	5,994,570	343	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	1,549,346	89	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Syria	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.40	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.22	2.59
Diabetes:	13.5 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.01 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.2 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	89.0 %	75.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Syria and United States

	Syria	United States
Daytime temperatures:	25.3 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	13.1 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	21.6 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	59 %	67 %
Rain days:	4.0	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.0	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 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
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 %