Afghanistan: 0 km (2026 edition) · Finland: 1,250 km (2026 edition)

Afghanistan’s highest peak towers 6,164 m above Finland’s

Afghanistan: 7,492 m (2026 edition) · Finland: 1,328 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 58% of Afghanistan, versus 7.4% of Finland

Afghanistan: 58.4% (2024) · Finland: 7.4% (2024)

Afghanistan has 7.8 times as many people as Finland

Afghanistan: 43.8 million (2025) · Finland: 5.65 million (2025)

Afghanistan is 3.6 times as densely populated as Finland

Afghanistan: 67 per km² (2025) · Finland: 19 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Finland is 26 years older than in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 16.9 years (2023) · Finland: 42.8 years (2023)

Women in Afghanistan have 3.5 more children on average than in Finland

Afghanistan: 4.76 children per woman (2024) · Finland: 1.25 children per woman (2024)

24% of people in Finland are 65 or older, versus 2.4% in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 2.4% (2025) · Finland: 24.2% (2025)

Finland hosts 38 times as many refugees per resident as Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 0.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Finland: 18.2 per 1,000 (2025)

Finland has produced 8.9 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Afghanistan none

Afghanistan: 0 (2026) · Finland: 8.9 (2026)

Afghanistan has 3 official languages, Finland 2

Afghanistan: 3 (2026) · Finland: 2 (2026)

Finland’s economy is 18 times the size of Afghanistan’s

Afghanistan: $17.8 billion (2024) · Finland: $317 billion (2025)

Finland produces 29 times as much per person as Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Int$2,236 (2024) · Finland: Int$65,885 (2025)

Afghanistan: no data · Finland: 27.4 (2023)

Afghanistan: no data · Finland: 0.2% (2023)

Unemployment is 13% in Afghanistan, versus 9.5% in Finland

Afghanistan: 13.4% (2025) · Finland: 9.5% (2025)

Finland spends 2.6% of its GDP on the military, Afghanistan 1.8%

Afghanistan: 1.8% (2021) · Finland: 2.6% (2025)

Finland’s central government collects 25% of GDP in tax, Afghanistan’s 9.9%

Afghanistan: 9.9% (2017) · Finland: 25.3% (2024)

Finland’s price level (US = 100) is 4.6× Afghanistan’s

Afghanistan: 19% (2024) · Finland: 85% (2025)

Finland spends 93 times as much on health per person as Afghanistan

Afghanistan: $59 (2023) · Finland: $5,515 (2023)

A baby in Afghanistan is 25 times as likely to die before turning one as in Finland

Afghanistan: 48.3 per 1,000 (2024) · Finland: 1.9 per 1,000 (2024)

Finland has 11 times as many doctors per person as Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 0.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Finland: 3.6 per 1,000 (2021)

Finland has 7.5 times as many hospital beds per person as Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 0.4 per 1,000 (2023) · Finland: 2.6 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Finland is 2.6 times that in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 5 per 100k (2023) · Finland: 13.1 per 100k (2023)

26% of adults in Finland are obese, versus 19% in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 18.8% (2024) · Finland: 26.2% (2024)

22% of adults in Afghanistan smoke, versus 21% in Finland

Afghanistan: 22.1% (2024) · Finland: 21.4% (2024)

People in Finland rate their lives 6.32 points higher than in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 1.45 (2025) · Finland: 7.76 (2025)

Adults in Finland drink 311 times as much alcohol as in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 0.03 litres (2023) · Finland: 9.4 litres (2023)

Finland has 11 times as much meat per person as Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 6.4 kg (2023) · Finland: 69.4 kg (2023)

Finland has 1,031 kcal more food per person per day than Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 2,315 kcal (2023) · Finland: 3,346 kcal (2023)

Afghanistan: no data · Finland: 1,497 hours (2023)

Adults in Finland went to school 10 years longer than in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 2.5 years (2023) · Finland: 13 years (2023)

Afghanistan: no data · Finland: 0.8 (2024)

Finland has 6 more World Heritage sites than Afghanistan (8 against 2)

Afghanistan: 2 (2026) · Finland: 8 (2026)

Finland has won 486 Olympic medals, Afghanistan 2

Afghanistan: 2 (2026 edition) · Finland: 486 (2026 edition)

94% of people in Finland are online, versus 16% in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 16% (2024) · Finland: 94% (2024)

Home internet in Finland is 16 times as fast as in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 16 Mbps (2026) · Finland: 247 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Finland have electricity, versus 88% in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 87.8% (2024) · Finland: 100% (2024)

75% of people in Finland live in cities, versus 26% in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 26% (2025) · Finland: 75% (2025)

Finland has 126 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Afghanistan 60

Afghanistan: 60 (2024) · Finland: 126 (2024)

Afghanistan: no data · Finland: 5,918 km (2021)

Airlines from Finland fly 81 times as many passengers per resident as those from Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 0.02 (2023) · Finland: 1.91 (2023)

Forest covers 74% of Finland, but only 1.9% of Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 1.9% (2024) · Finland: 74.2% (2024)

The average person in Finland emits 21 times as much CO₂ as someone in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 0.3 t (2024) · Finland: 5.3 t (2024)

87% of Afghanistan’s electricity is renewable, versus 56% in Finland

Afghanistan: 86.9% (2024) · Finland: 56.5% (2025)

The air in Afghanistan carries 7.4 times as much fine dust as in Finland

Afghanistan: 40 µg/m³ (2024) · Finland: 5.4 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 4.1 times as likely to be murdered in Afghanistan as in Finland

Afghanistan: 4 per 100k (2021) · Finland: 1 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Afghanistan are 6.7 times as deadly as in Finland

Afghanistan: 35.6 per 100k (2023) · Finland: 5.3 per 100k (2023)

Afghanistan is on average 9.9 °C warmer than Finland

Afghanistan: 13.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Finland: 3.6°C (2016–2025 avg)

Finland gets 2.3 times as much rain as Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 324 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Finland: 758 mm (2016–2025 avg)