Country comparison Vietnam : United States

General information

	Vietnam	United States
Region:	Southeast Asia	North America
Area:	331,230 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Vietnamese	English
Government form:	Republic (communist one-party system)	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1945 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Hanoi	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Vietnam	United States
Population:	97,339,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	293.9	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 71 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 80 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 29.8 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	16.45 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	6.38 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.23 ‰	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)

	Vietnam	United States
Political stability:	61	74
Civil rights:	33	83
Health:	53	74
Climate:	49	63
Cost of Living:	93	16
Popularity:	36	72

Economy

	Vietnam	United States
Currency:	Dong (1 VND = 10 Hào = 100 Xu)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	2.3 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	3.22 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	38.64 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	37.60 %	36.60 %
Average income:	2,660 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	36 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	VNM: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	271,158 M US$	2.79 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	259,319 M US$	2.66 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	280,826 M US$	2.89 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	261,683 M US$	2.69 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	VNM: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	195,468 km	2.01 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	2,600 km	0.03 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	47,130 km	0.48 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	1,909	0.020	3,652	0.011
Airports:	45	0.000	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	VNM: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	143.20 bn kWh	1.47 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	158.20 bn kWh	1.63 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	713.00 m kWh	7,324.95 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	2.73 bn kWh	28,077.25 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	257.86 m t	2,649.10 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Vietnam	United States
International dialing:	+84	+1
Internet domain:	.vn	.us

	VNM total	VNM per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	3,658,005	38	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	136,230,406	1400	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	189,553	2	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	66,871,607	687	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	14,802,380	152	114,259,000	347

Healthcare system

	Vietnam	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.60	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.82	2.59
Diabetes:	6.0 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.09 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	1.8 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	91.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	22.8 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Vietnam and United States

	Vietnam	United States
Daytime temperatures:	29.2 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.4 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	25.7 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	81 %	67 %
Rain days:	9.1	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.1	7.2

Native languages

	Vietnam	United States
Vietnamese:	86.8 %	0.2 %
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Tho:	1.8 %	n/a
Thai:	1.6 %	n/a
Muong:	1.5 %	n/a
Khmer:	1.4 %	n/a
Chinese:	1.4 %	0.9 %
Nung:	1.1 %	n/a
French:	n/a	0.7 %
Man:	0.7 %	n/a
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
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 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	3.7 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Vietnam	United States
Christianity:	8.3 %	78.5 %
nondenominational:	73.2 %	n/a
Buddhism:	12.2 %	0.7 %
Caodaism:	4.8 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hoahaoism:	1.4 %	n/a
Islam:	0.1 %	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
other:	0.0 %	15.3 %