Country+Data+and+Comparison

=Country Data and Comparison = On this page, you can view China's data such as land area, population, religions, languages, climate, and more. This page includes a series of charts and diagrams of this data about China, the U.S., and the world.

Per Capita Income

 * ~ China ||~ U.S. ||~ World ||
 * $7,400 || $47,400 || $11,200 ||

Land Area

 * ~ China ||~ U.S. ||~ World ||
 * = 9,596,961 sq km ||= 9,826,675 sq km ||= 510.072 million sq km ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Governmental System
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">statute that established the <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">International Court of Justice (ICJ) ||
 * ~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">China ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">U.S. ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">World ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Communist state || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Democracy || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">All members of the UN are parties to the

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Literacy Rate

 * ~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">China ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">U.S. ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">World ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">93.3% || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">99% || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">82% ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Natural Resources

 * = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**China** ||= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**U.S.** ||= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**World** ||
 * < <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, mercury, tin, tungsten, antimony, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, rare earth elements, uranium ||< <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">coal, copper, lead, molybdenum, phosphates, rare earth elements, uranium, bauxite, gold, iron, mercury, nickel, potash, silver, tungsten, zinc, petroleum, natural gas, timber ||< <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">the rapid depletion of nonrenewable mineral resources, the depletion of forest areas and wetlands, the extinction of animal and plant species, and the deterioration in air and water quality pose serious long-term problems that governments and peoples are only beginning to address. ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">﻿Major Transportation Methods

 * = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**China** ||= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**U.S.** ||= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**World** ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">air, train, highway, waterway, subway, bicycle, taxi, walking || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">road, air, railroad, and water || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">air, car, water, walking ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">﻿Religions

 * ~  ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">China ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">U.S. ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">World ||
 * ~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Buddhism || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">77% || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">6% || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">5.84% ||
 * ~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Christian || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">4% || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">85% || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">33.32% ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">﻿Languages

 * ~  ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">China ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">U.S. ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">World ||
 * = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**English** || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">.77% || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">95.81% || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">17.65% ||
 * ~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mandarin || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">53% || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">2.7% || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">12.65% ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">﻿Climate

 * = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**China** ||= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**U.S.** ||= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**World** ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">A wide equatorial band of hot and humid tropical climates - bordered north and south by subtropical temperate zones - that separate two large areas of cold and dry polar climates ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Population**

 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**China** || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**U.S.** || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**World** ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1,336,718,015 || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">313,232,044 || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">6,928,198,253 ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">﻿Population Density

 * ~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">China ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">U.S. ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">World ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">137 people/mi || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">32 people/mi || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">57,510,000 people/mi ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Unemployment Rate**

 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**China** || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**U.S.** || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**World** ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">4.3% || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">9.7% || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">8.8% ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">﻿Topography

 * ~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">China ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">U.S. ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">World ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">mountains, basins, plateaus, hills, flat, and fertile plains. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">the greatest ocean depth is the Mariana Trench at 10,924 m in the Pacific Ocean ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">﻿Imports

 * ~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">China ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">U.S. ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">World ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">$1.307 trillion || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">$1.903 trillion || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">$14.73 trillion ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">﻿Exports

 * ~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">China ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">U.S. ||~ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">World ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">$1.506 trillion || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">$1.27 trillion || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">$14.95 trillion ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">﻿Manufacturing and Industry

 * = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**China** ||= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**U.S.** ||= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**World** ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">World leader in gross value of industrial output; mining and ore processing, iron, steel, aluminum, and other metals, coal; machine building; armaments; textiles and apparel; petroleum; cement; chemicals; fertilizers; consumer products, including footwear, toys, and electronics; food processing; transportation equipment, including automobiles, rail cars and locomotives, ships, and aircraft; telecommunications equipment, commercial space launch vehicles, satellites. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Highly diversified, world leading, high-technology innovator, second largest industrial output in world; petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, electronics, food processing, consumer goods, lumber, mining. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Dominated by the onrush of technology, especially in computers, robotics, telecommunications, and medicines and medical equipment; the accelerated development of new industrial technology is complicating already grim environmental problems. ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">﻿Main Trading Partners

 * = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**China** ||= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**U.S.** ||= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**World** ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">European Union, USA, Japan, ASEAN, Hong Kong. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Canada, China, Mexico, Japan, Germany. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Canada, China, Mexico, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, South Korea, France, Taiwan, Netherlands, Brazil, Italy, Singapore, Malaysia, Ireland. ||