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:	96,462,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	291.2	33.4
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:	65	73
Civil rights:	33	83
Health:	53	74
Climate:	52	64
Cost of Living:	50	35
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:	38.79 %	110.95 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	37.60 %	36.60 %
Average income:	2,590 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	36 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	VNM: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	261,921 M US$	2.72 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	249,441 M US$	2.59 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	280,826 M US$	2.91 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	261,683 M US$	2.71 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	VNM: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	195,468 km	2.03 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Railways:	2,600 km	0.03 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	47,130 km	0.49 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	1,863	0.019	3,673	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	1.48 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	158.20 bn kWh	1.64 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	713.00 m kWh	7,391.50 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	2.73 bn kWh	28,332.37 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	192.67 m t	1,997.34 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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:	3,658,010	38	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	136,230,000	1412	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	189,553	2	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	66,269,467	687	286,441,830	873

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:	29.4 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.6 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	26.8 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	80 %	67 %
Rain days:	9.2	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.4	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
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	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 %
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 %