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 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Nuku‘alofa	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Tonga	United States
Population:	105,697	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	140.9	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 69 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 73 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 24.1 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	24.01 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	7.10 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-17.96 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Tonga	United States
Political stability:	80	63
Civil rights:	54	81
Health:	44	71
Climate:	55	66
Cost of Living:	55	38
Popularity:	8	67

Economy

	Tonga	United States
Currency:	Pa'anga (1 TOP = 100 Seniti)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.0 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	-0.35 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	75.87 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	27.50 %	36.60 %
Average income:	5,190 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	31 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	TON: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	489 M US$	4.62 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	549 M US$	5.19 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	100 M US$	0.94 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	310 M US$	2.93 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	TON: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	680 km	6.43 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Harbours:	32	0.303	3,627	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	457,534.27 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	52.00 m kWh	491,972.34 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	190,000.00 t	1,797.59 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 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	63	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	62,104	588	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	5,367	51	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	43,599	412	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	5,000	47	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Tonga	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.60	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.52	2.59
Diabetes:	15.7 %	10.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	100.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	31.1 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Tonga and United States

	Tonga	United States
Daytime temperatures:	27.1 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	20.7 °C	7.2 °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 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
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 %