Country comparison Thailand : United States

General information

	Thailand	United States
Region:	Southeast Asia	North America
Area:	513,120 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Thai	English
Government form:	Constitutional monarchy (interim military-government since May 2014)	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1350 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Bangkok	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Thailand	United States
Population:	69,800,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	136.0	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 73 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 81 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 36.9 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	10.17 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	7.79 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.03 ‰	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)

	Thailand	United States
Political stability:	63	73
Civil rights:	40	83
Health:	65	74
Climate:	39	63
Cost of Living:	52	35
Popularity:	42	72

Economy

	Thailand	United States
Currency:	Thai Baht (1 THB = 100 Satang)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	1.0 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	-0.85 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	44.90 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	29.50 %	36.60 %
Average income:	7,050 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	36 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	THA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	501,795 M US$	7.19 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	491,908 M US$	7.05 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	258,419 M US$	3.70 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	233,753 M US$	3.35 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	THA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	180,053 km	2.58 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	4,127 km	0.06 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	4,000 km	0.06 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	840	0.012	3,652	0.011
Airports:	101	0.001	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	THA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	187.70 bn kWh	2.69 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	181.50 bn kWh	2.60 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	2.27 bn kWh	32,478.52 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	19.83 bn kWh	284,097.51 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	257.86 m t	3,694.27 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Thailand	United States
International dialing:	+66	+1
Internet domain:	.th	.us

	THA total	THA per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	5,415,000	78	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	129,614,000	1857	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	3,399,000	49	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	46,523,370	667	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	11,599,513	166	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Thailand	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.10	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.81	2.59
Diabetes:	7.0 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.19 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	1.5 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	85.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	22.8 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Thailand and United States

	Thailand	United States
Daytime temperatures:	33.0 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	23.8 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	27.5 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	67 %
Rain days:	9.1	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.5	7.2

Native languages

	Thailand	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Thai:	52.6 %	n/a
Lao:	23.4 %	n/a
Chinese:	12.3 %	0.9 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Malay:	3.6 %	n/a
Burmese:	1.3 %	n/a
Khmer:	1.3 %	n/a
Kuy:	1.1 %	n/a
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	4.4 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Thailand	United States
Buddhism:	92.0 %	0.7 %
Christianity:	1.2 %	78.5 %
Islam:	4.9 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	0.1 %	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
nondenominational:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	1.7 %	15.3 %