GENERAL
STATISTICS: USA
- AREA: 3,617,829 sq.miles
- POPULATION: 265,000,000 (1% growth rate)
- CAPITAL CITY: Washington DC (population: 607,000)
- PEOPLE: 74% Caucasian, 12% African American, 9% Latino,
3% Asian, 0.8% Native American
- LANGUAGES: English and Spanish
- RELIGION: 56% Protestant, 28% Roman Catholic, 2%
Jewish, 1% Muslim
- GOVERNMENT: Federal republic of 50 states
- GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP): US$6 trillion
- GDP RANKING IN THE WORLD: 1st
- GDP PER HEAD: $23,100
- ANNUAL GROWTH: 4%
- INFLATION: 2.6%
- MAJOR INDUSTRIES: oil, electronics, computers, automobile
manufacturing, aerospace industry
- MAJOR TRADING PARTNERS: Canada, Japan, EU
GENERAL STATISTICS: NEW YORK CITY
- BOROUGHS: Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and
Staten Island
- TOTAL POPULATION: 18,682,687 (6.8 million households)
- PRIMARY AGE - ADULTS: 35-54
- MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME: $44,974
- MEDIAN HOME VALUE: $209,265
UK-USA COMPARISON:
| |
UK (1994) |
USA (1994) |
POPULATION STRUCTURE: |
|
|
- % POPULATION GROWTH RATE:
- BIRTHS PER 1000 POPULATION:
- DEATHS PER 1000 POPULATION:
- %URBAN POPULATION:
|
0.2
13.5
10.9
89 |
1.1
15.9
6.9
76 |
| SOCIAL STATISTICS |
|
|
- GDP PER CAPITA:
- %UNEMPLOYMENT RATE:
- SHARE OF EDUCATION OF TOTAL PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
(%):
- SHARE OF HEALTH OF TOTAL PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
(%):
- SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS AS % OF GDP:
|
17,230
10.2
13.1
17.2
12 |
24,680
6.1
3.6
22
4.7 |
| CRIME STATISTICS (KNOWN TO POLICE):
|
|
|
- OFFENCES OF ACQUISITIVE CRIME PER 100,000:
- OFFENCES OF VIOLENCE PER 100,000:
- PERSONS ARRESTED FOR DRUG OFFENCES PER 100,000:
|
12,400
1620
150 |
4896
478
539 |
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