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 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	N'Djamena	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Chad	United States
Population:	15,947,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	12.4	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 53 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 55 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 15.8 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	42.17 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	12.10 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.13 ‰	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)

	Chad	United States
Political stability:	43	72
Civil rights:	12	83
Health:	0	74
Climate:	48	64
Cost of Living:	49	34
Popularity:	36	86

Economy

	Chad	United States
Currency:	Central African Franc	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	2.3 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	-0.97 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	47.53 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	63.50 %	36.60 %
Average income:	700 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	21 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	TCD: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	11,315 M US$	0.71 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	11,172 M US$	0.70 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	190 M US$	0.01 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	411 M US$	0.03 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	TCD: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	40,000 km	2.51 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 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	13,080.93 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	224.30 m kWh	14,065.45 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	1.02 m t	63.70 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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:	6,524	0	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	7,664,840	481	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	6	0	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	1,036,547	65	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Chad	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.40	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.05	2.59
Diabetes:	6.0 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.50 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	1.4 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	78.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	11.8 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Chad and United States

	Chad	United States
Daytime temperatures:	36.3 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.0 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	45 %	67 %
Rain days:	4.0	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	8.7	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 %
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 %