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Compare 217 countries and territories on 111 indicators — world rankings, and trends since 1960 — using data from the World Bank, the OECD, the UN and others.
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United States: strengths and weaknesses
Compared with: OECD members. Among indicators where higher (or lower) is clearly better, a top-quarter rank counts as a strength and a bottom-quarter rank as a weakness.
Strengths
- 1st of 37Nobel laureates (cumulative)302 (2026, highest first)
- 3rd of 38Average annual wage (real)$86,977 (2025, highest first)
- 3rd of 35Women in management44.1% (2025, highest first)
- 4th of 38R&D spending (% of GDP)3.45% (2023, highest first)
- 5th of 38GDP per capita (PPP)$90,027 (PPP) (2025, highest first)
- 5th of 38GNI per capita (Atlas method)$88,810 (2025, highest first)
- 5th of 37Energy import dependence-9.8% (2024, lowest first)
- 6th of 38GDP per capita (current US$)$90,027 (2025, highest first)
- 6th of 38PISA reading score504 (2022, highest first)
- 8th of 38Labor productivity (GDP per hour worked)$104.7 (2025, highest first)
- 9th of 38PM2.5 air pollution7.0 µg/m³ (2023, lowest first)
- 9th of 38High-tech exports (% of manufactured exports)24.3% (2024, highest first)
- 10th of 38Youth unemployment9.3% (2025, lowest first)
Weaknesses
- 35th of 36Relative poverty rate18.1% (2023, lowest first)
- 36th of 38CO2 emissions per capita13.62 t (2024, lowest first)
- 35th of 38Gender wage gap17.9% (2025, lowest first)
- 35th of 38Renewable energy share10.9% (2021, highest first)
- 33rd of 36General government debt (% of GDP)126.0% (2025, lowest first)
- 34th of 38Homicide rate (per 100,000 people)5.76 (2023, lowest first)
- 34th of 38Road traffic deaths (per 100,000 people)12.7 (2019, lowest first)
- 34th of 38Political stability60.3 (2025, highest first)
- 34th of 38Access to electricity100.0% (2024, highest first)
- 33rd of 38Liberal democracy index0.57 (2025, highest first)
- 33rd of 38Infant mortality (per 1,000 live births)5.5 (2024, lowest first)
- 33rd of 38Voice and accountability69.6 (2025, highest first)
- 26th of 30Real minimum wage (hourly)$7.25 (2025, highest first)
- 30th of 35Gini index41.8 (2024, lowest first)
- 32nd of 38Renewables share of electricity25.6% (2025, highest first)
- 31st of 38Electoral democracy index0.73 (2025, highest first)
- 30th of 38Life expectancy78.9 years (2024, highest first)
- 30th of 38Carbon intensity of electricity384 g (2025, lowest first)
- 29th of 38PISA mathematics score465 (2022, highest first)
Notable, but neither good nor bad
- 38th of 38Exports (% of GDP)11.0% (2024, highest first)
- 1st of 38GDP (current US$)$30.77T (2025, highest first)
- 1st of 38Total reserves (incl. gold)$1.39T (2025, highest first)
- 1st of 38Population341.8 million (2025, highest first)
- 1st of 38Health spending (% of GDP)16.7% (2023, highest first)
- 1st of 38Patent applications (residents)270,295 (2024, highest first)
- 1st of 38Scientific and technical articles430,843 (2023, highest first)
- 1st of 31International tourism receipts$84.2B (2020, highest first)
- 2nd of 38International departures60.5 million (2020, highest first)
- 2nd of 38Services, value added (% of GDP)76.3% (2021, highest first)
- 3rd of 38Energy use per capita6,454 kg (2024, highest first)
- 2nd of 23Stock market capitalization (% of GDP)224% (2025, highest first)
About the data
Each indicator compares the latest value for every country (within 5 years of the newest data), so years can differ between countries. Which direction counts as "better" is this site's judgment, and some indicators are left neutral. How rankings work and where the data comes from.