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 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Bangkok	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Thailand	United States
Population:	69,800,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	136.0	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 74 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 81 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 39.0 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	9.99 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	7.92 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.03 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Thailand	United States
Political stability:	60	63
Civil rights:	40	81
Health:	65	71
Climate:	46	66
Cost of Living:	53	38
Popularity:	64	67

Economy

	Thailand	United States
Currency:	Thai Baht (1 THB = 100 Satang)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	1.4 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	1.23 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	38.40 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	29.50 %	36.60 %
Average income:	7,040 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	35 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	THA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	501,644 M US$	7.19 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	491,525 M US$	7.04 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	258,645 M US$	3.71 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	232,981 M US$	3.34 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	THA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	180,053 km	2.58 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 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:	839	0.012	3,627	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	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	181.50 bn kWh	2.60 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.35 m kWh
Energy export:	2.27 bn kWh	32,478.52 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:	19.83 bn kWh	284,097.51 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	257.86 m t	3,694.27 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 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:	5,003,000	72	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	116,294,000	1666	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	3,399,000	49	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	54,334,919	778	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	11,478,265	164	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Thailand	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.10	2.87
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 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	22.1 %	23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Thailand and United States

	Thailand	United States
Daytime temperatures:	33.0 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	23.9 °C	7.1 °C
Water temperature:	27.7 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	67 %
Rain days:	9.1	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.4	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
Khmer:	1.3 %	n/a
Burmese:	1.3 %	n/a
Kuy:	1.1 %	n/a
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 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	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 %