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This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for China and United States. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison. On this page:General informationPopulationQuality of lifeEconomyInfrastructureEnergy balanceTelecommunicationHealthcare systemEducationClimateLanguagesReligions

General information

ChinaUnited States
Region:East AsiaNorth America
Area:9,562,910 km²9,525,067 km²
Government form:People's republic (communist one-party system)Federal presidential constitutional republic
Capital:BeijingWashington, D.C.

Population

Details for China and the United States
ChinaUnited States
Population:1,408,975,000340,111,000
Inhabitants/km²:147.335.7
Urbanization:65.9 %80.1 %
Life expectancy males:Ø 75 yearsØ 76 years
Life expectancy females:Ø 81 yearsØ 81 years
Average age:Ø 40.2 yearsØ 38.9 years
Birth rate:6.39 ‰10.70 ‰
Death rate:7.87 ‰9.20 ‰
Migrationrate:-0.23 ‰3.78 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life
ChinaUnited States
Political stability:6871
Civil rights:3682
Health:7475
Climate:6071
Cost of Living:5433
Popularity:6077

Economy

Details for China and the United States
ChinaUnited States
Currency:Renminbi yuán(1 CNY = 10 Jiǎo = 100 Fēn)US dollar(1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:4.6 %4.1 %
Inflation rate:0.40 %3.00 %
Cost of Living:(USA = 100%)49.37 %100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:25.00 %25.63 %
Average income:13,660 US$83,660 US$
General government debt (% of GDP):88.32 %122.32 %
Corruption index:57 (bad)35 (moderate)
CHN:totalper 1000inh.USA:totalper 1000inh.
Gross domestic product:18,743,803 M US$13.30 M US$29,184,890 M US$85.81 M US$
Gross national product:19,251,263 M US$13.66 M US$28,455,052 M US$83.66 M US$
Exported goods:3,792,951 M US$2.69 M US$3,232,522 M US$9.50 M US$
Imported goods:3,253,993 M US$2.31 M US$4,136,061 M US$12.16 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for China and the United States
CHN:totalper 1000km²USA:totalper 1000km²
Roadways:6,490,015 km678.7 km6,755,135 km709.2 km
Railways:150,000 km15.7 km146,909 km15.4 km
Passenger airports:2740.0291,6690.175

Energy balance

Details for China and the United States
CHN:totalper 1000inh.USA:totalper 1000inh.
Production capacity:25,833,240.0 GWh18,334.78 MWh10,818,600.0 GWh31,809.03 MWh
Energy consumption:8,894,000.0 GWh6,312.39 MWh4,085,000.0 GWh12,010.79 MWh
Energy production:9,232,734.0 GWh6,552.80 MWh4,257,100.0 GWh12,516.80 MWh
Energy export:20,577.0 GWh14.60 MWh19,870.0 GWh58.42 MWh
Energy imports:7,195.0 GWh5.11 MWh38,874.0 GWh114.30 MWh
CO2 emissions:15.54 bn t11,026.54 t5.91 bn t17,384.38 t

Telecommunication

Details for China and the United States
ChinaUnited States
International dialing:+86+1
Internet domain:.cn.us
4G network coverage:100.0 %99.0 %
5G network coverage:96.0 %96.0 %
CHNtotalCHNper 1000inh.USAtotalUSAper 1000inh.
Landlines:166,507,00011881,549,000240
Mobile cellulars:1,870,010,0001327390,990,0001150
Internet users:1,296,257,000920129,475,492381
Broadband Internet:669,826,000475134,223,000395

Healthcare system

Details for China and the United States
ChinaUnited States
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:5.002.74
Physicians per 1000 inh.:2.523.61
Rabies deaths:0.000 ‰0.000 ‰
Tuberculosis:0.49 ‰0.03 ‰
Diabetes:11.9 %13.7 %
Smokers:23.4 %24.3 %

Education

Details for China and the United States
ChinaUnited States
Compulsory schooling begin:6 years6 years
Compulsory schooling duration:9 years12 years
Literacy rate:96.7 %79.0 %
Government expenditure (% of GDP):4.0 %5.4 %
Population attained primary school:95.8 %99.7 %
Population with Bachelor's degree:7.7 %39.0 %
Population with Master's degree:0.9 %15.0 %
Population with doctorate / Ph.D.:0.1 %2.3 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.The data for each country can be found here: China and United States
ChinaUnited States
Daytime temperatures:18.8 °C19.2 °C
Nighttime temperatures:9.4 °C7.7 °C
Water temperature:13.2 °C18.5 °C
Rel. humidity:68 %67 %
Rain days:5.77.1
Sunshine hours per day:6.07.3
Maximum daily temperatures in comparison United States China

Native languages

ChinaUnited States
Chinese:92.0 %0.9 %
English:n/a82.1 %
Spanish:n/a10.7 %
Zhuang:1.4 %n/a
Hui:0.8 %n/a
French:n/a0.7 %
German:n/a0.6 %
Italian:n/a0.6 %
Yi:0.6 %n/a
Uighur:0.6 %n/a
Tujia:0.5 %n/a
Tagalog:n/a0.4 %
Tibetan:0.4 %n/a
Polish:n/a0.3 %
Korean:0.1 %0.3 %
Vietnamese:n/a0.2 %
Portuguese:n/a0.2 %
Japanese:n/a0.2 %
Russian:n/a0.2 %
Mongolian:0.2 %n/a
Kazakh:0.1 %n/a
Armenian:n/a0.1 %
other:3.3 %2.5 %

Religions

ChinaUnited States
Christianity:2.3 %69.9 %
Nondenominational:58.5 %23.3 %
Local chinese beliefs:17.5 %n/a
Buddhism:6.2 %0.8 %
Taoism:4.4 %n/a
Islam:1.7 %0.8 %
Judaism:n/a1.4 %
Hinduism:0.1 %0.5 %
other:9.3 %3.3 %

Data inventory and updates

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