Country comparison Taiwan : United States

	total	per 1000 people	total	per 1000 people
Government
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic		Federal presidential republic
Capital:	Taipei		Washington, D.C.
Population
Inhabitants per km²:	656.0		33.2
Migrationrate:	0.80 ‰		3.00 ‰
Economy
Currency:	New Taiwan Dollar (1 TWD = 100 Cents)		US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	3.8 %		3.7 %
Cost of Living:	91.10 %		110.20 %
Corruption index:	65 (moderate)		69 (moderate)

Exported goods:	312,461 M €	13.24 M €	2,234,305 M €	6.84 M €
Imported goods:	231,353 M €	9.80 M €	2,794,991 M €	8.56 M €
Infrastructure
	total	per 1000 people	total	per 1000 people
Roadways:	43,206 km	1.83 km	6,586,610 km	20.16 km
Railways:	1,613 km	0.07 km	293,564 km	0.90 km
Harbours:	389	0.016	3,673	0.011
Airports:	37	0.002	13,513	0.041
Energy balance
	total	per 1000 people	total	per 1000 people
Energy consumption:	237.40 bn kWh	10.06 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.94 m kWh
Energy production:	246.10 bn kWh	10.43 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.53 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,676.68 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	222,598.05 kWh
CO2 emissions:	348.80 m t	14,777.75 t	5.25 bn t	16,083.50 t
Telecommunication
International dialing:	+886		+1
Internet domain:	.tw		.us

	total	per 1000 people	total	per 1000 people
Landlines:	13,174,334	558	109,961,000	337
Mobile phones:	29,340,886	1,243	422,000,000	1,292
Internet server:	6,272,000	266	505,000,000	1,546
Internet users:	20,601,000	873	285,087,483	873

Climate Detailed info for: Taiwan and United States
Daytime temperatures:	26.8 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	20.3 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	24.0 °C	19.1 °C
Relative humidity:	79 %	67 %
Absolute humidity:	19 g/m³	9 g/m³
Rain days per year:	122.4	85.2
Sunshine hours per day:	3.9	7.2
Native languages
Chinese:	87.5 %	0.6 %
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Hakka:	10.2 %	n/a
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.7 %
Ami:	0.6 %	n/a
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Atayal:	0.4 %	n/a
Paiwan:	0.3 %	n/a
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	1.0 %	3.0 %
Religions
Christianity:	4.5 %	78.5 %
Buddhism:	49.0 %	0.7 %
Taoism:	44.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Islam:	n/a	0.6 %
other:	2.5 %	18.4 %

Country comparison
	Taiwan	United States
	All information: Taiwan	All information: United States
Area:	35,980 km²	9,831,510 km²
Population:	23,603,000	326,688,000
Official language:	Chinese	English
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