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 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Hanoi	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Vietnam	United States
Population:	97,339,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	293.9	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 71 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 80 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 31.9 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	16.12 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	6.44 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.23 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Vietnam	United States
Political stability:	67	63
Civil rights:	35	81
Health:	54	71
Climate:	52	66
Cost of Living:	50	38
Popularity:	33	67

Economy

	Vietnam	United States
Currency:	Dong (1 VND = 10 Hào = 100 Xu)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	2.2 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	1.83 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	34.45 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	37.60 %	36.60 %
Average income:	2,650 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	39 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	VNM: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	271,158 M US$	2.79 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	257,927 M US$	2.65 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	290,192 M US$	2.98 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	269,901 M US$	2.77 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	VNM: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	195,468 km	2.01 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Railways:	2,481 km	0.03 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	47,130 km	0.48 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	1,926	0.020	3,627	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	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	158.20 bn kWh	1.63 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.35 m kWh
Energy export:	713.00 m kWh	7,324.95 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:	2.73 bn kWh	28,077.25 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	257.86 m t	2,649.10 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 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:	3,205,775	33	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	138,934,626	1427	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	189,553	2	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	68,419,290	703	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	16,699,249	172	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Vietnam	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.60	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.82	2.59
Diabetes:	6.0 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.10 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	1.8 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	91.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	24.8 %	23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Vietnam and United States

	Vietnam	United States
Daytime temperatures:	28.9 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.9 °C	7.1 °C
Water temperature:	26.2 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	80 %	67 %
Rain days:	9.2	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.2	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 %