Country comparison Venezuela : United States

General information

	Venezuela	United States
Region:	South America	North America
Area:	912,050 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Spanish	English
Government form:	Federal presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1811 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Caracas	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Venezuela	United States
Population:	28,436,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	31.2	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 68 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 76 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 30.0 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	17.30 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	7.22 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	14.22 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Venezuela	United States
Political stability:	24	63
Civil rights:	2	81
Health:	47	71
Climate:	64	66
Cost of Living:	28	38
Popularity:	46	67

Economy

	Venezuela	United States
Currency:	Bolívar fuerte (1 VEF = 100 Céntimos)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	6.4 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	2,959.80 %	4.70 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	73.30 %	36.60 %
Average income:	13,080 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	14 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	VEN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	482,359 M US$	16.96 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	392,925 M US$	13.82 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	28,684 M US$	1.01 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	25,810 M US$	0.91 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	VEN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	96,189 km	3.38 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Railways:	447 km	0.02 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	7,100 km	0.25 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	281	0.010	3,627	0.011
Airports:	444	0.016	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	VEN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	71.96 bn kWh	2.53 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	109.30 bn kWh	3.84 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.35 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	138.16 m t	4,858.64 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 t

Telecommunication

	Venezuela	United States
International dialing:	+58	+1
Internet domain:	.ve	.us

	VEN total	VEN per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	5,276,274	186	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	18,028,388	634	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	1,016,000	36	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	20,473,879	720	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	2,561,556	90	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Venezuela	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.87	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.93	2.59
Diabetes:	7.0 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.13 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.5 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	81.0 %	75.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Venezuela and United States

	Venezuela	United States
Daytime temperatures:	32.1 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	23.1 °C	7.1 °C
Water temperature:	28.3 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	75 %	67 %
Rain days:	8.0	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.0	7.2

Native languages

	Venezuela	United States
Spanish:	96.9 %	10.7 %
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Goajiro:	0.4 %	n/a
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Warrau:	0.1 %	n/a
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	2.6 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Venezuela	United States
Christianity:	98.0 %	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:	2.0 %	15.3 %