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:	14,863,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	38.0	33.5
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:	29.75 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	7.77 ‰	8.70 ‰
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:	28	67
Civil rights:	15	81
Health:	13	74
Climate:	92	63
Cost of Living:	37	35
Popularity:	36	72

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 %	1.23 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	31.60 %	36.60 %
Average income:	1,090 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	24 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	ZWE: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	16,769 M US$	1.13 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	16,207 M US$	1.09 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	4,715 M US$	0.32 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	6,559 M US$	0.44 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	ZWE: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	97,267 km	6.54 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 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	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	6.80 bn kWh	457,514.19 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	1.24 bn kWh	83,361.78 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	2.22 bn kWh	149,364.93 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	12.27 m t	825.54 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 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	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	13,195,902	888	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	30,615	2	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	4,021,239	271	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	203,461	14	120,531,000	366

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:	2.75 %	0.20 %
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:	27.1 °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 %