United States

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PROFILE
  • Area: 9,833,517 sq. km (3,796,741 sq. mi.)
  • Population: 323,995,528 (2016 est.)
  • Population growth rate: 0.81% (2016 est.)
  • Life expectancy: 79.8 years (2016)
  • Languages: English 79.2%, Spanish 12.9%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 3.3%
  • Religions: Protestant 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%, Mormon 1.7%, other Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other or unspecified 2.5%, unaffiliated 12.1%, none 4%
  • Formal name: United States of America
  • Alternate names: United States of America
  • Government type: federal presidential republic
  • Leaders: chief of state and head of government: President Donald J. TRUMP
  • Capital: Washington, D.C.
  • Administrative divisions: 50 states and 1 district
  • GDP per capita (PPP): $55,800 (2015 est.)
  • Exports: agricultural products (soybeans, fruit, corn) 9.2%, industrial supplies (organic chemicals) 26.8%, capital goods (transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment) 49.0%, consumer goods (automobiles, medicines) 15.0% (20
  • Imports: agricultural products 4.9%, industrial supplies 32.9% (crude oil 8.2%), capital goods 30.4% (computers, telecommunications equipment, motor vehicle parts, office machines, electric power machinery), consumer goods 31.8% (automobiles, clothing, medicines,
  • Currency: US dollar (USD)