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 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Caracas	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Venezuela	United States
Population:	28,436,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	31.2	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 68 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 76 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 27.0 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	17.57 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	7.12 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	14.22 ‰	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)

	Venezuela	United States
Political stability:	20	73
Civil rights:	3	83
Health:	47	74
Climate:	57	64
Cost of Living:	28	35
Popularity:	45	72

Economy

	Venezuela	United States
Currency:	Bolívar fuerte (1 VEF = 100 Céntimos)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	9.1 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	254.95 %	1.23 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	73.30 %	36.60 %
Average income:	13,080 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	15 (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$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	392,925 M US$	13.82 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	28,684 M US$	1.01 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	25,810 M US$	0.91 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	VEN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	96,189 km	3.38 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 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:	289	0.010	3,673	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	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	109.30 bn kWh	3.84 m 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:	138.16 m t	4,858.64 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 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:	5,467,040	192	107,281,000	326
Mobile phones:	16,558,600	582	404,577,000	1228
Internet server:	1,016,000	36	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	20,531,397	722	286,441,830	869

Healthcare system

	Venezuela	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.80	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.93	2.59
Diabetes:	7.0 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.33 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.5 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	84.0 %	79.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Venezuela and United States

	Venezuela	United States
Daytime temperatures:	31.8 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.6 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	28.3 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	76 %	67 %
Rain days:	8.5	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.9	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 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Goajiro:	0.4 %	n/a
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 %
Warrau:	0.1 %	n/a
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 %