Country comparison Chad : United States

General information

	Chad	United States
Region:	Central Africa	North America
Area:	1,284,000 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Arabic	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1960 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	N'Djamena	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Chad	United States
Population:	16,426,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	12.8	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 53 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 56 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 16.1 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	41.16 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	11.72 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.13 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Chad	United States
Political stability:	38	63
Civil rights:	12	81
Health:	0	71
Climate:	50	66
Cost of Living:	48	38
Popularity:	44	67

Economy

	Chad	United States
Currency:	Central African Franc	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	1.9 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	4.46 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	43.79 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	63.50 %	36.60 %
Average income:	630 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	20 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	TCD: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	10,829 M US$	0.66 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	10,390 M US$	0.63 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	190 M US$	0.01 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	411 M US$	0.03 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	TCD: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	40,000 km	2.44 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Airports:	59	0.004	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	TCD: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	208.60 m kWh	12,699.49 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	224.30 m kWh	13,655.30 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:	1.07 m t	65.14 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 t

Telecommunication

	Chad	United States
International dialing:	+235	+1
Internet domain:	.td	.us

	TCD total	TCD per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	5,340	0	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	8,687,151	529	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	6	0	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	1,708,289	104	294,658,590	889

Healthcare system

	Chad	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.40	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.05	2.59
Diabetes:	6.0 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.34 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	1.4 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	80.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	8.3 %	23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Chad and United States

	Chad	United States
Daytime temperatures:	35.6 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	20.7 °C	7.1 °C
Rel. humidity:	45 %	67 %
Rain days:	3.9	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	8.5	7.2

Native languages

	Chad	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Sara:	27.7 %	n/a
Arabic:	12.3 %	n/a
Mayo-kebbi:	11.5 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Kanem-bornu:	9.0 %	n/a
Ouaddai:	8.7 %	n/a
Hadjarai:	6.7 %	n/a
Tandjile:	6.5 %	n/a
Gorane:	6.2 %	n/a
French:	2.3 %	0.7 %
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 %
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:	9.1 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Chad	United States
Christianity:	34.3 %	78.5 %
Islam:	53.1 %	1.1 %
Animism:	7.3 %	n/a
Nondenominational:	3.1 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	2.2 %	15.3 %