China United States Leader President : Xi Jinping President: Barack Obama Population 1,349,585,838 316,668,567 Life Expectancy 74.990 years 78.620 years Capital City Beijing Washington, DC Largest city Shanghai (population: 14,608,500) New York City (population: 8,008,280) Human Development Index 0.762 0.95 GDP per capita $9,300 US $50,700 US Literacy Rate 90.9% 99% Corruption Perception Index 3.6 7.3 Percentage of Women in Parliament 21.3% 16.6% Wealthiest Citizens Liu Yongxing ($3.0bn US) William Gates III ($40.0bn US) Unemployment Rate 6.500% 8.100% Death Penalty Legal Legal Political System Communist state Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition Independence date 221 BC (unification under the Qin or Chin Dynasty); 1 January 1912 (Qing or Ching Dynasty replaced by the Republic of China); 1 October 1949 (Peoples Republic of China established) 4 July 1776 (from Great Britain) Religions Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%, Muslim 1%-2% note: officially atheist (2002 est.) 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% (2007 est.) Languages Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages (see Ethnic groups entry) English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000 census) note: Hawaiian is an official language in the state of Hawaii Exports electrical and other machinery, including data processing equipment, apparel, textile, iron and steel, optical and medical equipment 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% (2003) External Debt $770,800,000,000 $ $15,930,000,000,000 US Exchange Rate Renminbi yuan (RMB) per US dollar - 6.9385 (2008 est.), 7.61 (2007), 7.97 (2006), 8.1943 (2005), 8.2768 (2004) Military Budget as percentage of GDP 2.600% 4.600% Beijing Olympics Medal Count 100 110 Location Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and Mexico Area 9,596,961 km sq 9,826,675 km sq Coastline 14,500 km 19,924 km Climate extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains
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