Country comparison: Taiwan / United States of America

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Taiwan and United States. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Taiwan	United States
Region:	East Asia	North America
Area:	35,980 km²	9,831,510 km²
National language:	Chinese	English
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Capital:	Taipei	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Taiwan	United States
Population:	23,581,000	331,894,000
Inhabitants/km²:	655.4	33.8
Average age:	Ø 42.3 years	Ø 38.5 years
Migrationrate:	0.96 ‰	3.01 ‰

Economy

	Taiwan	United States
Currency:	New Taiwan dollar (1 TWD = 100 Cents)	US dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	3.7 %	3.6 %
Government debt (% of GDP):	28.36 %	128.14 %
Government debt (% of GDP):	26.30 %	115.28 %
Corruption index:	32 (moderate)	31 (moderate)

	TWN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Exported goods:	388,490 M US$	16.47 M US$	2,556,638 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	308,744 M US$	13.09 M US$	3,401,688 M US$	10.25 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Taiwan and the United States

	TWN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	43,206 km	1.83 km	6,586,610 km	19.85 km
Railways:	1,613 km	0.07 km	293,564 km	0.88 km
Harbours:	429	0.0182	3,627	0.0109
Passenger airports:	15	0.0006	436	0.0013

Energy balance

Details for Taiwan and the United States

	TWN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	505.78 bn kWh	21.45 m kWh	10.015 tn kWh	30.18 m kWh
Energy consumption:	269.57 bn kWh	11.43 m kWh	3.898 tn kWh	11.74 m kWh
Energy production:	279.05 bn kWh	11.83 m kWh	4.049 tn kWh	12.20 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	14.13 bn kWh	42,587.96 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	61.45 bn kWh	185,146.19 kWh
CO2 emissions:	0.00 t	0.00 t	4.82 bn t	14,515.85 t

Telecommunication

	Taiwan	United States
International dialing:	+886	+1
Internet domain:	.tw	.us

	TWN total	TWN per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	12,971,900	550	101,526,000	306
Mobile cellulars:	29,291,500	1242	351,477,000	1059
Internet server:	6,272,000	266	505,000,000	1522
Internet users:	21,600,000	916	301,691,414	909

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Taiwan and United States

	Taiwan	United States
Daytime temperatures:	26.9 °C	18.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	20.3 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	24.0 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	79 %	67 %
Rain days:	10.5	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	4.3	7.2

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Taiwan
United States

Native languages

	Taiwan	United States
Chinese:	87.5 %	0.9 %
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Hakka:	10.2 %	n/a
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Ami:	0.6 %	n/a
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Atayal:	0.4 %	n/a
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Paiwan:	0.3 %	n/a
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	1.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Taiwan	United States
Christianity:	4.5 %	78.5 %
Buddhism:	49.0 %	0.7 %
Taoism:	44.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
other:	2.5 %	15.3 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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