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 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Harare	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Zimbabwe	United States
Population:	14,645,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	37.5	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 60 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 63 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 19.5 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	30.68 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	7.88 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-4.93 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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	Zimbabwe	United States
Political stability:	32	72
Civil rights:	14	83
Health:	13	74
Climate:	93	64
Cost of Living:	37	34
Popularity:	22	86

Economy

	Zimbabwe	United States
Currency:	Zimbabwe Dollar (1 ZWL = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	5.7 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	10.62 %	1.81 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	31.60 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,390 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	24 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	ZWE: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	21,441 M US$	1.46 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	20,392 M US$	1.39 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	4,715 M US$	0.32 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	6,559 M US$	0.45 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	ZWE: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	97,267 km	6.64 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 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	486,020.66 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	6.80 bn kWh	464,307.46 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	1.24 bn kWh	84,599.55 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	2.22 bn kWh	151,582.73 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	10.98 m t	749.90 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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:	265,734	18	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	13,195,900	901	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	30,615	2	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	3,962,405	271	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Zimbabwe	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.70	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.08	2.59
Diabetes:	1.8 %	10.8 %
HIV:	4.87 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	2.0 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	84.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	13.9 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Zimbabwe and United States

	Zimbabwe	United States
Daytime temperatures:	27.3 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	13.7 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	62 %	67 %
Rain days:	4.8	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 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
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 %