Country comparison Zambia : United States

General information

	Zambia	United States
Region:	Eastern Africa	North America
Area:	752,610 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	English	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1964 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Lusaka	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Zambia	United States
Population:	18,384,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	24.4	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 61 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 67 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 16.9 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	35.78 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	6.32 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	0.33 ‰	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)

	Zambia	United States
Political stability:	39	67
Civil rights:	32	81
Health:	18	74
Climate:	68	62
Cost of Living:	60	35
Popularity:	47	72

Economy

	Zambia	United States
Currency:	Zambian Kwacha (1 ZMW = 100 Ngwee)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	12.2 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	15.73 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	32.68 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	15.60 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,190 US$	64,530 US$
Corruption index:	33 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	ZMB: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	19,320 M US$	1.05 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	21,930 M US$	1.19 M US$	21,261,604 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	8,546 M US$	0.46 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	5,923 M US$	0.32 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	ZMB: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	67,671 km	3.68 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	3,126 km	0.17 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	2,250 km	0.12 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	1	0.000	3,652	0.011
Airports:	88	0.005	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	ZMB: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	11.04 bn kWh	600,523.63 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	11.55 bn kWh	628,265.21 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	1.18 bn kWh	63,968.82 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	2.19 bn kWh	118,853.64 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	7.74 m t	421.02 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Zambia	United States
International dialing:	+260	+1
Internet domain:	.zm	.us

	ZMB total	ZMB per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	71,844	4	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	19,104,208	1039	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	16,571	1	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	3,492,952	190	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	82,317	4	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Zambia	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	2.00	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.09	2.59
Diabetes:	4.5 %	10.8 %
HIV:	6.62 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	3.3 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	90.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	14.7 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Zambia and United States

	Zambia	United States
Daytime temperatures:	29.4 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	15.7 °C	7.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	61 %	67 %
Rain days:	7.0	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.8	7.2

Native languages

	Zambia	United States
English:	1.7 %	82.1 %
Bembe:	33.4 %	n/a
Nyanja:	14.7 %	n/a
Tonga:	11.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Lozi:	5.5 %	n/a
Chewa:	4.5 %	n/a
Nsenga:	2.9 %	n/a
Tumbuka:	2.5 %	n/a
Lunda:	1.9 %	n/a
Lamba:	1.8 %	n/a
Lala:	1.8 %	n/a
Kaonde:	1.8 %	n/a
Luvale:	1.5 %	n/a
Mambwe:	1.3 %	n/a
Namwanga:	1.2 %	n/a
Lenje:	1.1 %	n/a
Bisa:	1.0 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
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 %
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:	10.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Zambia	United States
Christianity:	95.5 %	78.5 %
nondenominational:	1.8 %	n/a
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:	2.7 %	15.3 %