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IndicatorUSAUnited StatesNorth America
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.83rank #49
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile69.9rank #34
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.48rank #53
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.47rank #54
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.73rank #70
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile77.8rank #22
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.83rank #49
Military spending% GDP3.4%rank #18
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.51rank #34
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile64.3rank #112
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile76.2rank #20
Rule of Law0-100 percentile73.5rank #41
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.92rank #25
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.74rank #36
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.57rank #48
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile72.4rank #46
Women in parliament% seats28.9%rank #77
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.83rank #46
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment1.5%rank #165
Agriculture value added% GDP0.94%rank #170
Annual working hours per workerhours1,788.9rank #85
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker436,258.2rank #30
Current account balance% GDP-3.6%rank #72
Employment-to-population ratio%58.5%rank #83
FDI net inflows% GDP1.3%rank #62
GDPcurrent US$30.77Trank #1
GDP growth%2.2%rank #128
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$90,026.5rank #7
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $76,931.3rank #10
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $73,650rank #10
Government expenditure% GDP24.4%rank #51
Gross capital formation% GDP21.5%rank #98
Gross savings% GDP16.6%rank #108
High-technology exports% manuf. exports24.3%rank #20
Human capital indexindex3.7rank #6
Industry value added% GDP17.6%rank #153
Inflation%2.9%rank #86
Labour force participation rate%61.2%rank #93
Personal remittances received% GDP0.03%rank #91
R&D expenditure% GDP3.4%rank #5
Researchers in R&Dper million4,937.5rank #19
Tax revenue% GDP10.8%rank #78
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)1rank #7
Trade openness% GDP25%rank #168
Unemployment% labor force4.2%rank #69
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%4.4%rank #71
Vulnerable employment% employment3.8%rank #7
Youth unemployment% ages 15-249.3%rank #63
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-249.7%rank #67
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop100%rank #14
Basic sanitation access% pop99.6%rank #19
Child mortalityper 1000.65rank #31
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal3,947.3rank #1
DTP3 immunization coverage%94%rank #6
Health spending% GDP16.7%rank #3
Infant mortalityper 1k births5.5rank #28
Life expectancyyears78.9rank #61
Maternal mortalityper 100k17rank #17
Measles immunization% children92%rank #8
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%92%rank #8
Physiciansper 1k3.7rank #31
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m37rank #25
Road traffic deathsper 100k12.7rank #52
Smoking prevalence% adults15.8%rank #50
Suicide mortality rateper 100k15.6rank #155
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k3.2rank #18
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births6.5rank #53
Undernourishment% pop2.5%rank #1
Education
Education spending% GDP5.4%rank #41
Expected years of schoolingyears15.9rank #47
Mean years of schoolingyears13.9rank #3
Primary completion rate% relevant age95.7%rank #78
Primary enrollment% gross97%rank #117
Secondary enrollment% gross97.5%rank #65
Tertiary enrollment% gross79.4%rank #25
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00010.6rank #142
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.6rank #133
Median age of populationyears38rank #61
Net migration rateper 1,0003.9rank #46
Populationpeople341.78Mrank #3
Population growth%0.52%rank #134
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years83.2rank #57
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands380,846.9rank #3
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age53.9rank #118
Urban population%80.2%rank #46
Climate
CO₂ emissionst4.9Brank #2
CO₂ per capitat14.2rank #12
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation16.3%rank #32
Electricity from hydro% generation5.4%rank #59
Electricity from solar% generation8.6%rank #37
Electricity from wind% generation10.3%rank #30
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita12,839.3rank #5
Forest area% land33.9%rank #96
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita16.2rank #176
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh384.4rank #49
Renewable electricity%25.6%rank #57
Renewable energy share%10.9%rank #127
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e5,438.7rank #189
Society
Asylum seekerspeople3,779rank #98
Extreme poverty% pop1.1%rank #6
Female labor participation%56.3%rank #74
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10038.9rank #26
Gender Development Indexratio1rank #18
Gender Inequality Index0-10.17rank #41
Gini indexindex41.8rank #15
Homicide rateper 100k5.8rank #55
Human Development Index0-10.94rank #13
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.83rank #24
Internet users% pop94.7%rank #27
Life satisfaction0-106.8rank #21
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.69rank #57
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #126
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #71
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #62
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #48
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people457,647rank #19
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people3,667rank #94
Youth NEET rate%11.8%rank #49
Risk
Battle-related deaths (state-based)deaths/year233rank #22
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-105.1rank #45
Human hazard & exposure0-102.4rank #23
INFORM risk score0-103.2rank #21
Lack of coping capacity0-102rank #12
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-101.1rank #8
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-102.8rank #12
Natural hazard & exposure0-107rank #55
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year1rank #1
Socio-economic vulnerability0-100.8rank #9
Vulnerability0-103.3rank #22
Vulnerable groups0-105.2rank #47
marks the leader in each row across the selected set · ranks are world ranks in the comparison spine