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:	69,626,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	135.7	33.4
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:	10.34 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	7.67 ‰	8.60 ‰
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	72
Civil rights:	40	83
Health:	65	74
Climate:	42	64
Cost of Living:	51	34
Popularity:	45	86

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:	0.71 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	49.43 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	29.50 %	36.60 %
Average income:	7,260 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	36 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	THA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	543,549 M US$	7.81 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	505,271 M US$	7.26 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	323,878 M US$	4.65 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	272,831 M US$	3.92 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	THA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	180,053 km	2.59 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 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:	825	0.012	3,673	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	2.70 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	181.50 bn kWh	2.61 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	2.27 bn kWh	32,559.87 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	19.83 bn kWh	284,809.11 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	283.76 m t	4,075.56 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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:	2,614,000	38	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	129,614,000	1862	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	3,399,000	49	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	46,407,121	667	286,441,830	873

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:	0.15 %	0.22 %
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:	32.8 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	23.3 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	27.5 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	77 %	67 %
Rain days:	9.1	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.6	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 %
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 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
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 %