Economy

Imports
$3.12 trillion (2022). Crude Petroleum ($199B), Cars ($159B), Broadcasting Equipment ($116B), Computers($108B), and Packaged Medicaments ($91.3B), importing mostly from China ($551B), Canada ($438B), Mexico ($421B), Germany ($153B), and Japan ($137B).

Financial inclusion factors (over 15 years of  age)
• 93% have an account with a financial institution
• 65.6% have a credit card
• 27% have a mobile money account
• 77% make online purchases

Ease of doing business
It is very easy to conduct business (rated 84.0 out of 100) ranked 6th out of 44 countries among OECD high income ranked 6th out of 190 countries worldwide (2019, World Bank).

Exports
$1.95 trillion (2022). Refined Petroleum($138B), Crude Petroleum ($118B), Petroleum Gas ($116B), Cars ($57.5B), and Integrated Circuits ($49.8B), exporting mostly to Canada ($308B), Mexico ($294B), China ($151B), Japan ($79.5B), and United Kingdom ($75.4B).

Main local online stores
Amazon.com, Walmart.com, Apple.com, Homedepot.com, Bestbuy.com, Target.com, Macys.com, Wayfair.com, Costco.com, Kohis.com.

Economic freedom
‘Mostly free’ (70.1 out of 100) ranked 2nd out of 2 Northern American countries ranked 25th out of 186 countries worldwide (2019, Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal).

Global Innovation Index

Ranked 1st out of 2 Northern American countries, 3rd out of 132 worldwide.

The Global Innovation Index captures the innovation ecosystem performance of 132 economies and tracks the most recent global innovation trends.

Source: ecommerceDB.com

Source: Veroanalytics

Source: Worldpay

Source: Monetate

Media

Media language English

Information channels
The US has the most highly-developed mass media in the world. Its dramas, comedies, soap operas, animations, music videos and films have a global audience and are part of the staple fare of broadcasters worldwide.
TV is America’s most popular medium. ABC, CBS and NBC held sector leadership for decades until the mass take-up of cable and satellite and the arrival of the Fox network. Fox News Channel is the dominant US cable news network. But viewing habits are changing and the proportion of consumed content accounted for by live broadcast TV is falling. The US leads the world in the adoption of over-the-top (OTT) video-on-demand, delivered by broadband internet.
“The US has a free, diverse, and constitutionally protected press,” says Washington-based Freedom House (2019). The NGO says news coverage has become more polarised, with some outlets and well-known commentators “providing a consistently right- or left-leaning perspective”.

Public Broadcasting

Public broadcasting is partly government-funded, but also supported by private grants. Universities and colleges operate outlets. National Public Radio (NPR) – with hundreds of affiliate stations – offers news, debate and music without advertising. Public TV services operated by PBS have a mission to provide “quality” and educational programming. The government sponsors TV, radio and online outlets aimed at audiences outside the US, including in the former Soviet bloc, the Middle East and Asia, and Cuba. There are more than 1,000 daily newspapers in the US, most of them with a local or regional readership, but they have been hit by online competition.

News agency

Associated Press
Bloomberg Business News
UPI

The press

USA Today – national daily
The Wall Street Journal – business daily
The Christian Science Monitor – church-owned daily
Los Angeles Times – daily
The Washington Post – daily
The Boston Globe – daily
New York Post – daily
The New York Times – daily
The Philadelphia Inquirer – daily
The Baltimore Sun – daily
Chicago Tribune – daily
Newsweek – news weekly
Time – news weekly
US News & World Report – news weekly

Television

ABC – major commercial network
CBS – major commercial network
NBC – major commercial network
Fox – major commercial network
CNN – pioneer of 24-hour rolling TV news, operates domestic and international streams
MTV – pioneer of music television
HBO (Home Box Office) – pay TV network; originator of some of American TV’s most critically–acclaimed programmes
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) – public TV, serves some 350 non-commercial member stations

Radio

NPR (National Public Radio) – non-commercial network of member stations; news, information and cultural programmes
iHeart Media – America’s largest commercial radio operator, owns more than 1,200 stations
Entercom – major commercial operator
Cumulus Media – major commercial operator

External broadcasting

Voice of America – government-funded, programmes for global audiences in many languages
Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty – government-funded, targets eastern Europe, former Soviet Union and the Caucasus in local languages
Radio Free Asia – government funded, targets China, North Korea and South East Asia
Al-Hurra – government-funded, satellite TV for Middle East
Radio Sawa – government-funded, Arabic-language radio for Middle East
Radio Farda – government-funded, Persian-language radio
Radio and TV Marti – government-funded services for Cuba

Internet Data

Internet users
97.1% penetration, 331.1 million.

Share of web traffic by device
41.39% mobile phones, 55.99% computers (laptops and desktops), 2.45% tablet devices, 0.16% others.

Average speed of mobile Internet connection
106.28  Mbps

Average speed of fixed Internet connection
219.71 Mbps

Mobile connection as a percentage of total population: 116.2%

Percentage of mobile connections that are broadband (3G-5G): 99.9%

Most popular web search engines
Google (86.9%), Bing (8.09%),Yahoo (2.48%), Duckduckgo (1.99%), Yandex (0.22%), AOL (0.09%).

Most used social media
Facebook (62.9%), Instagram (11.75%), YouTube (8.66%), Pinterest (7.66%),Twitter (7.51%), Reddit (1.14%).

Social statistics

Life expectancy
77 yrs (2022)

CO2 emissions
13 metric tons per capita (2020)

Corruption perceptions Index
USA scored 69 out of 100, ranked 24th out of 180 countries worldwide.

Glass Ceiling Index
58.2 out 100, ranked 18th out of 29 countries.

The glass-ceiling index measures the environment for working women combining data on higher education, labor-force participation, pay, child-care costs, maternity and paternity rights, business-school applications, and representation in senior jobs.

Current health expenditure
16.57% of GDP (2022)

Education expenditure
90% of total expenditure in public institutions (2020).

World Happiness Index
USA ranked 16 out of 146 countries, with a score of 6.977.