Country comparison Zimbabwe : United States

General information

	Zimbabwe	United States
Region:	Eastern Africa	North America
Area:	390,760 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	English	English
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1980 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Harare	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Zimbabwe	United States
Population:	14,863,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	38.0	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 60 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 63 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 20.5 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	28.98 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	7.69 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-4.93 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Zimbabwe	United States
Political stability:	29	63
Civil rights:	14	81
Health:	13	71
Climate:	91	66
Cost of Living:	37	38
Popularity:	36	67

Economy

	Zimbabwe	United States
Currency:	Zimbabwe Dollar (1 ZWL = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	5.2 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	557.20 %	4.70 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	31.60 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,140 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	23 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	ZWE: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	18,051 M US$	1.21 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	16,940 M US$	1.14 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	5,263 M US$	0.35 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	5,489 M US$	0.37 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	ZWE: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	97,267 km	6.54 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Railways:	3,427 km	0.23 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Airports:	196	0.013	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	ZWE: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	7.12 bn kWh	478,909.71 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	6.80 bn kWh	457,514.19 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.35 m kWh
Energy export:	1.24 bn kWh	83,361.78 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:	2.22 bn kWh	149,364.93 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	12.27 m t	825.54 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 t

Telecommunication

	Zimbabwe	United States
International dialing:	+263	+1
Internet domain:	.zw	.us

	ZWE total	ZWE per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	252,067	17	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	13,191,708	888	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	30,615	2	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	3,730,595	251	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	203,461	14	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Zimbabwe	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.70	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.08	2.59
Diabetes:	1.8 %	10.8 %
HIV:	2.75 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	1.9 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	84.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	12.1 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Zimbabwe and United States

	Zimbabwe	United States
Daytime temperatures:	27.1 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	13.5 °C	7.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	62 %	67 %
Rain days:	4.7	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	8.8	7.2

Native languages

	Zimbabwe	United States
English:	2.2 %	82.1 %
Shona:	72.1 %	n/a
Ndebele:	16.2 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Nyanja:	2.2 %	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 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	7.3 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Zimbabwe	United States
Christianity:	92.7 %	78.5 %
Nondenominational:	6.1 %	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:	1.2 %	15.3 %