Kazakhstan: 0 km (2026 edition) · United States: 19,924 km (2026 edition)

Kazakhstan’s highest peak towers 820 m above the United States’

Kazakhstan: 7,010 m (2026 edition) · United States: 6,190 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 79% of Kazakhstan, versus 46% of the United States

Kazakhstan: 79.2% (2024) · United States: 46.1% (2024)

The United States has 16 times as many people as Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 20.8 million (2025) · United States: 342 million (2025)

The United States is 4.8 times as densely populated as Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 8 per km² (2025) · United States: 37 per km² (2025)

The typical person in the United States is 8.6 years older than in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 29.5 years (2023) · United States: 38 years (2023)

Women in Kazakhstan have 1.4 more children on average than in the United States

Kazakhstan: 2.98 children per woman (2024) · United States: 1.63 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in the United States are 65 or older, versus 9.0% in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 9% (2025) · United States: 18.4% (2025)

The United States hosts 6.4 times as many refugees per resident as Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 0.2 per 1,000 (2025) · United States: 1.3 per 1,000 (2025)

The United States has produced 8.7 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Kazakhstan none

Kazakhstan: 0 (2026) · United States: 8.7 (2026)

Kazakhstan has 2 official languages, the United States 1

Kazakhstan: 2 (2026) · United States: 1 (2026)

The United States’ economy is 100 times the size of Kazakhstan’s

Kazakhstan: $306 billion (2025) · United States: $30.8 trillion (2025)

The United States produces 2 times as much per person as Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Int$44,294 (2025) · United States: Int$90,027 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the United States than in Kazakhstan (Gini 12.6 points higher)

Kazakhstan: 29.2 (2021) · United States: 41.8 (2024)

1.1% of people in the United States live on less than $3 a day, versus 0% in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 0% (2021) · United States: 1.1% (2024)

Unemployment is 4.8% in Kazakhstan, versus 4.2% in the United States

Kazakhstan: 4.8% (2025) · United States: 4.2% (2025)

The United States spends 3.1% of its GDP on the military, Kazakhstan 0.4%

Kazakhstan: 0.4% (2025) · United States: 3.1% (2025)

Kazakhstan’s central government collects 12% of GDP in tax, the United States’ 11%

Kazakhstan: 11.9% (2023) · United States: 10.8% (2024)

The United States’ price level (US = 100) is 3× Kazakhstan’s

Kazakhstan: 33% (2025) · United States: 100% (2025)

The United States spends 28 times as much on health per person as Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: $490 (2023) · United States: $13,473 (2023)

A baby in Kazakhstan is 35% more likely to die before turning one than in the United States

Kazakhstan: 7.4 per 1,000 (2024) · United States: 5.5 per 1,000 (2024)

Kazakhstan has 2% more doctors per person than the United States

Kazakhstan: 3.8 per 1,000 (2023) · United States: 3.7 per 1,000 (2022)

Kazakhstan has 2.4 times as many hospital beds per person as the United States

Kazakhstan: 6.5 per 1,000 (2020) · United States: 2.7 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Kazakhstan is 37% higher than in the United States

Kazakhstan: 18.2 per 100k (2023) · United States: 13.3 per 100k (2023)

42% of adults in the United States are obese, versus 22% in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 22.4% (2024) · United States: 41.8% (2024)

21% of adults in Kazakhstan smoke, versus 16% in the United States

Kazakhstan: 21.1% (2024) · United States: 15.8% (2024)

People in the United States rate their lives 0.18 points higher than in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 6.63 (2025) · United States: 6.82 (2025)

Adults in the United States drink 60% more alcohol than in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 6 litres (2023) · United States: 9.6 litres (2023)

The United States has 88% more meat per person than Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 64.9 kg (2023) · United States: 122.1 kg (2023)

The United States has 811 kcal more food per person per day than Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 3,136 kcal (2023) · United States: 3,947 kcal (2023)

Workers in Kazakhstan put in 186 more hours a year than in the United States

Kazakhstan: 1,975 hours (2023) · United States: 1,789 hours (2023)

Adults in the United States went to school 1.4 years longer than in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 12.5 years (2023) · United States: 13.9 years (2023)

Kazakhstan welcomed 2.4 times as many tourists per resident as the United States (2019)

Kazakhstan: 0.5 (2024) · United States: 0.21 (2024)

The United States has 20 more World Heritage sites than Kazakhstan (27 against 7)

Kazakhstan: 7 (2026) · United States: 27 (2026)

The United States has won 3,137 Olympic medals, Kazakhstan 87

Kazakhstan: 87 (2026 edition) · United States: 3,137 (2026 edition)

95% of people in the United States are online, versus 93% in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 93% (2024) · United States: 95% (2024)

Home internet in the United States is 2.4 times as fast as in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 165 Mbps (2026) · United States: 401 Mbps (2026)

Kazakhstan and the United States are practically level

Kazakhstan: 100% (2024) · United States: 100% (2024)

80% of people in the United States live in cities, versus 62% in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 62% (2025) · United States: 80% (2025)

Kazakhstan has 127 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, the United States 113

Kazakhstan: 127 (2024) · United States: 113 (2024)

The United States’ railway network is 9.3 times as long as Kazakhstan’s

Kazakhstan: 16,006 km (2021) · United States: 148,553 km (2021)

Airlines from the United States fly 4.8 times as many passengers per resident as those from Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 0.57 (2023) · United States: 2.75 (2023)

Forest covers 34% of the United States, but only 1.3% of Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 1.3% (2024) · United States: 33.8% (2024)

The average person in the United States emits 2% more CO₂ than someone in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 13.9 t (2024) · United States: 14.2 t (2024)

26% of the United States’ electricity is renewable, versus 15% in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 14.9% (2025) · United States: 25.6% (2025)

The air in Kazakhstan carries 2.1 times as much fine dust as in the United States

Kazakhstan: 16 µg/m³ (2024) · United States: 7.5 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 2.3 times as likely to be murdered in the United States as in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 2.6 per 100k (2022) · United States: 5.8 per 100k (2023)

Roads in the United States are 29% deadlier than in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 20.4 per 100k (2023) · United States: 26.3 per 100k (2023)

The United States is on average 2.5 °C warmer than Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 7.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · United States: 10.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

The United States gets 2.6 times as much rain as Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: 328 mm (2016–2025 avg) · United States: 849 mm (2016–2025 avg)