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Key facts

  • Currency: U.S. dollar
  • Capital city: Washington, D.C.
  • Region: Northern America
  • Continent: Americas
  • Land area: 9,147,420 km²
  • Population: 333,287,557
  • Political Leader: Joe Biden (President)

Latest news

China hits out at US ambassador Nicholas Burns for making negative comments 'on multiple occasions'

Read: SCMP

2024-03-19

BOJ's Cautious Interest-Rate Hike Leaves Eurozone, U.S. Bonds Unfazed

Read: The Wall Street Jour

2024-03-19

Iraqi immigrant plotted to smuggle assassins through Mexico to kill former US president: docs

Read: Fox News

2024-03-19

Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Afghanistan in response to attack in KP, admits US

Read: Nation PK

2024-03-19

U.S. to finance $500m in green exports to Vietnam

Read: Nikkei

2024-03-19

Yen Slides Past 150 Per Dollar as Yield Gap With US Remains Wide

Read: Bloomberg

2024-03-19

The ferocious US pushback against new banking rules

Read: Financial Times

2024-03-19

Metrics

Business

Central government debt 115.70 % of GDP
Expense 24.79 % of GDP
GDP 25,439,700,000,000.00 current US$
Inflation 8.00 annual %
Self-employed 6.28 % of total employment
Tax revenue 12.32 % of GDP
Unemployment 3.65 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment 4.31 % of total employment


Environment

Agricultural land 4,058,100.00 km²
Alternative and nuclear energy 11.87 % of total energy use
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 4,320,530.00 kt
Electricity production from coal sources 34.23 % of total
Electricity production from natural gas sources 31.94 % of total
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources 5.84 % of total
Electricity production from nuclear sources 19.32 % of total
Electricity production from oil sources 0.90 % of total
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric 7.39 % of total
Net energy imports 7.31 % of energy use
Fertility rate 1.66 births per woman
Forest area 3,097,950 km²
Fossil fuel energy consumption 82.43 % of total
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 37,873.40 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 33.90 years
Methane emissions 748,241.00 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 258,002.00 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Female Population 168,266,219
Male Population 165,021,339
Renewable energy consumption 11.16 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area 8,903,100.00 km²
Rural population 56,378,923
Urban land area 186,573.00 km²
Urban population 276,908,634
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters 1.48 % of total population


Health

Birth rate 11.00 per 1,000 people
Death rate 10.40 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 11,702.40 current US$
Health expenditure 18.82 % of GDP
Incidence of HIV 0.11 per 1,000 uninfected population
Hospital beds 2.87 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 76 years
Suicide mortality rate 16.10 per 100,000 population


Other

Access to electricity 100.00 % of population
Individuals using the Internet 91.75 % of population
Net migration 998,540
Press freedom 3.04


Politics

Armed forces personnel 1,395,000
Democracy score 7.96
Democracy type Flawed democracy
Military expenditure 3.45 % of GDP
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments 28.70 %


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Coordinates: [38°0′N, -97°0′S]
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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 1 day ago

License

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