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United States vs. Russia

How the United States and Russia compare on income per person, population, life expectancy, internet use, electricity, unemployment, inflation, carbon emissions, health spending and college enrollment, each next to the world figure and linked to its chart, where you'll find its source, its date and every country's numbers.

The biggest differences

  • Health spending per person is 13.4 times as high in the United States ($13,473) as in Russia ($1,003).
  • GDP per person is 5.8 times as high in the United States ($86,170) as in Russia ($14,962).
  • Inflation is 5.5 percentage points higher in Russia (8.4%) than in the United States (2.9%).

The two are about the same on the share of people using the internet, the share of people with electricity, and carbon dioxide emitted per person.

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Figures are from the World Bank's World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), for the newest year most countries have reported; many are estimates, and they are revised as new data comes in. GDP per person is in US dollars at each year's exchange rates, not adjusted for differences in prices, and so is health spending. Two figures are called about the same when GDP, population, emissions or health spending differ by less than 5%, life expectancy by less than a year, unemployment or inflation by less than 1 percentage point, or another share by less than 2 percentage points.

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