| Total Area |
|
Population (July 2009 estimate) |
|
Industries |
| Land: 9,161,923 sq km |
| Water: 664,707 sq km |
| Total: 9,826,630 sq km |
| |
| (includes only the 50 states and the District of Columbia) |
|
|
307,212,123 The U.S.A. is the third largest country in terms of population (after China and India). |
|
Leading industrial power in the world, highly diversified and technologically advanced; petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, electronics, food processing, consumer goods, lumber, mining. |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Total Area - Comparative |
|
Age Structure (2009 estimate) |
|
Agriculture Products |
The United States is about half the size of Russia; about three-tenths the size of Africa; about half the size of South America (or slightly larger than Brazil); slightly larger than China; and more than twice the size of the European Union. |
|
| 0-14 years: 20.2% |
| 15-64 years: 67% |
| 65 years and over: 12.8% |
|
|
Wheat, corn, other grains, fruits, vegetables, cotton; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; fish; forest products |
| |
OIL * |
Oil Production (2007 estimate) |
Oil Consumption (2007 estimate) |
| 8.457 million bbl/day |
20.68 million bbl/day |
|
Oil Imports (2005) |
Oil Exports (2005) |
Proved Reserves of Oil (January 2008 estimate) |
| 13.71 million bbl/day |
1.165 million bbl/day |
20.97 billion bbl |
| * bbl = barrels |
|
|
| |
| Coastline |
|
Median age (2009 estimate) |
|
Exports of Commodities (2003) |
19,924 km |
|
| Male: 36.4 years |
| Female: 38 years |
| Total: 36.7 years |
|
|
Capital goods - 49.0%
(transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment) |
| |
Industrial supplies - 26.8%
(organic chemicals) |
| |
Consumer goods - 15.0%
(automobiles, medicines) |
| |
Agricultural products - 9.2%
(soybeans, fruit, corn) |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| Elevation extremes |
|
Life expectancy at birth (2008 estimate) |
|
Export Partners (2007) |
Lowest point:
Death Valley -86 m |
| |
Highest point:
Mount McKinley 6,198 m |
|
|
| Male: 75.29 years |
| Female: 81.13 years |
| Total: 78.14 years |
|
|
| Canada - 21.4% |
| Mexico - 11.7% |
| China - 5.6% |
| Japan - 5.4% |
| United Kingdom - 4.3% |
| Germany - 4.3% |
|
| |
| Natural resources |
|
Languages (2000 census) |
|
Imports of Commodities (2003) |
Coal, copper, lead, molybdenum, phosphates, uranium, bauxite, gold, iron, mercury, nickel, potash, silver, tungsten, zinc, petroleum, natural gas, timber |
|
| English - 82.1% |
| Spanish - 10.7% |
| Other Indo-European - 3.8% |
| Asian and Pacific island - 2.7% |
| Other - 0.7% |
|
|
| Industrial supplies - 32.9% |
| |
| Consumer goods - 31.8% (automobiles, clothing, medicines, furniture, toys) |
| |
Capital goods - 30.4%
(computers, telecommunications equipment, motor vehicle parts, office machines, electric power machinery) |
| |
| Crude oil - 8.2% |
| |
| Agricultural products - 4.9% |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Religions
(2007 estimate) |
|
Ethnic groups (July 2007 estimate) |
|
Import Partners (2007) |
| Protestant - 51.3% | | Roman Catholic - 23.9% | | Jewish - 1.7% | | Mormon - 1.7% | | Other Christian - 1.6% | | Buddhist - 0.7% | | Muslim - 0.6% |
|
|
| White - 79.96% |
| Black - 12.85% |
| Asian - 4.43% |
| Amerindian / Alaska native - .97% |
| Native Hawaiian, Pacific islanders - 0.18% |
|
|
| China - 16.9% |
| Canada - 15.7% |
| Mexico - 10.6% |
| Japan - 7.4% |
| Germany - 4.8% |
|
Population below poverty line
(2004 estimate)
12% |
| |
Illicit drugs |
World's largest consumer of cocaine, shipped from Colombia through Mexico and the Caribbean. Consumer of ecstasy and of Mexican heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine. Minor consumer of high-quality Southeast Asian heroin. Illicit producer of cannabis, marijuana, depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and methamphetamine. Money-laundering center. |
| |
Information extracted from: CIA - The World Factbook |
