Country comparison Tonga : United States

General information

	Tonga	United States
Region:	Polynesia	North America
Area:	750 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Tongan	English
Government form:	Constitutional monarchy	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1970 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Nuku‘alofa	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Tonga	United States
Population:	104,494	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	139.3	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 69 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 73 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 21.3 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	24.30 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	7.15 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-17.96 ‰	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)

	Tonga	United States
Political stability:	66	72
Civil rights:	47	83
Health:	48	74
Climate:	54	64
Cost of Living:	53	34
Popularity:	7	86

Economy

	Tonga	United States
Currency:	Pa'anga (1 TOP = 100 Seniti)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.4 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	7.44 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	88.61 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	27.50 %	36.60 %
Average income:	5,000 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	31 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	TON: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	512 M US$	4.90 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	523 M US$	5.00 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	112 M US$	1.08 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	327 M US$	3.13 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	TON: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	680 km	6.51 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Harbours:	36	0.345	3,673	0.011
Airports:	6	0.057	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	TON: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	48.36 m kWh	462,801.69 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	52.00 m kWh	497,636.23 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:	128,345.00 t	1,228.25 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Tonga	United States
International dialing:	+676	+1
Internet domain:	.to	.us

	TON total	TON per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	6,637	64	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	62,104	594	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	5,367	51	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	43,102	412	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Tonga	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.60	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.52	2.59
Diabetes:	15.7 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	100.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	30.2 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Tonga and United States

	Tonga	United States
Daytime temperatures:	27.2 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	20.7 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	25.1 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	81 %	67 %
Rain days:	10.5	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	0.3	7.2

Native languages

	Tonga	United States
Tongan:	98.3 %	n/a
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
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 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	1.7 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Tonga	United States
Christianity:	97.3 %	78.5 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	2.7 %	15.3 %