Country comparison South Africa : United States

General information

	South Africa	United States
Region:	Southern Africa	North America
Area:	1,219,090 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Zulu	English
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1910 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Pretoria	Washington, D.C.

Population

	South Africa	United States
Population:	59,309,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	48.6	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 61 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 68 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 28.0 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	19.77 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	9.38 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.12 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	South Africa	United States
Political stability:	53	60
Civil rights:	54	81
Health:	31	71
Climate:	95	66
Cost of Living:	80	23
Popularity:	40	67

Economy

	South Africa	United States
Currency:	South African Rand (1 ZAR = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	33.6 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	4.61 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	47.11 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	29.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	6,010 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	44 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	ZAF: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	335,442 M US$	5.66 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	356,586 M US$	6.01 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	94,117 M US$	1.59 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	79,013 M US$	1.33 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	ZAF: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	750,000 km	12.65 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Railways:	20,986 km	0.35 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Harbours:	105	0.002	3,627	0.011
Airports:	407	0.007	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	ZAF: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	207.10 bn kWh	3.49 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	234.50 bn kWh	3.95 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.35 m kWh
Energy export:	16.55 bn kWh	279,048.48 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:	10.56 bn kWh	178,051.48 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	433.25 m t	7,305.00 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 t

Telecommunication

	South Africa	United States
International dialing:	+27	+1
Internet domain:	.za	.us

	ZAF total	ZAF per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	2,098,802	35	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	95,959,439	1618	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	4,761,000	80	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	40,448,527	682	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	1,303,057	22	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	South Africa	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.80	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.91	2.59
Diabetes:	12.7 %	10.8 %
HIV:	7.79 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	5.5 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	79.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	20.3 %	23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: South Africa and United States

	South Africa	United States
Daytime temperatures:	24.8 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	11.7 °C	7.1 °C
Water temperature:	19.6 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	62 %	67 %
Rain days:	4.7	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	8.5	7.2

Native languages

	South Africa	United States
English:	9.6 %	82.1 %
Zulu:	22.7 %	n/a
Xhosa:	16.0 %	n/a
Afrikaans:	13.5 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Sepedi:	9.1 %	n/a
Tswana:	8.0 %	n/a
Sotho:	7.6 %	n/a
Tsonga:	4.5 %	n/a
Swazi:	2.5 %	n/a
Venda:	2.4 %	n/a
Ndebele:	2.1 %	n/a
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 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	2.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	South Africa	United States
Christianity:	68.6 %	78.5 %
Nondenominational:	15.1 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.2 %	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	1.5 %	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	14.6 %	15.3 %