Brazil’s coastline is 50% longer than Argentina’s

Argentina: 4,989 km (2026 edition) · Brazil: 7,491 km (2026 edition)

Argentina’s highest peak towers 3,968 m above Brazil’s

Argentina: 6,962 m (2026 edition) · Brazil: 2,994 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 30% of Argentina, versus 28% of Brazil

Argentina: 29.5% (2024) · Brazil: 28.4% (2024)

Brazil has 4.6 times as many people as Argentina

Argentina: 45.9 million (2025) · Brazil: 213 million (2025)

Brazil is 52% more densely populated than Argentina

Argentina: 17 per km² (2025) · Brazil: 25 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Brazil is 1.8 years older than in Argentina

Argentina: 32.1 years (2023) · Brazil: 33.9 years (2023)

Women in Brazil have 0.1 more children on average than in Argentina

Argentina: 1.5 children per woman (2024) · Brazil: 1.61 children per woman (2024)

13% of people in Argentina are 65 or older, versus 11% in Brazil

Argentina: 12.6% (2025) · Brazil: 11.5% (2025)

Brazil hosts 12 times as many refugees per resident as Argentina

Argentina: 0.1 per 1,000 (2025) · Brazil: 1.3 per 1,000 (2025)

Argentina has produced 0.9 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Brazil 0.0

Argentina: 0.9 (2026) · Brazil: 0.047 (2026)

Argentina has 2 official languages, Brazil 1

Argentina: 2 (2026) · Brazil: 1 (2026)

Brazil’s economy is 3.3 times the size of Argentina’s

Argentina: $683 billion (2025) · Brazil: $2.28 trillion (2025)

Argentina produces 39% more per person than Brazil

Argentina: Int$32,587 (2025) · Brazil: Int$23,433 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Brazil than in Argentina (Gini 7.9 points higher)

Argentina: 42.4 (2024) · Brazil: 50.3 (2024)

3.0% of people in Brazil live on less than $3 a day, versus 1.0% in Argentina

Argentina: 1% (2024) · Brazil: 3% (2024)

Unemployment is 7.1% in Argentina, versus 6.0% in Brazil

Argentina: 7.1% (2025) · Brazil: 6% (2025)

Brazil and Argentina are practically level

Argentina: 0.6% (2025) · Brazil: 1.1% (2025)

Brazil’s central government collects 15% of GDP in tax, Argentina’s 10%

Argentina: 10.4% (2024) · Brazil: 15.4% (2024)

Argentina and Brazil are nearly identical here

Argentina: 46% (2025) · Brazil: 46% (2025)

Argentina spends 44% more on health per person than Brazil

Argentina: $1,457 (2023) · Brazil: $1,010 (2023)

A baby in Brazil is 54% more likely to die before turning one than in Argentina

Argentina: 8 per 1,000 (2024) · Brazil: 12.3 per 1,000 (2024)

Argentina has 2.2 times as many doctors per person as Brazil

Argentina: 5.1 per 1,000 (2023) · Brazil: 2.4 per 1,000 (2023)

Argentina has 33% more hospital beds per person than Brazil

Argentina: 3.4 per 1,000 (2022) · Brazil: 2.5 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in Argentina is 27% higher than in Brazil

Argentina: 11.2 per 100k (2023) · Brazil: 8.8 per 100k (2023)

38% of adults in Argentina are obese, versus 31% in Brazil

Argentina: 38.1% (2024) · Brazil: 30.9% (2024)

24% of adults in Argentina smoke, versus 12% in Brazil

Argentina: 23.5% (2024) · Brazil: 11.9% (2024)

People in Brazil rate their lives 0.20 points higher than in Argentina

Argentina: 6.43 (2025) · Brazil: 6.63 (2025)

Adults in Brazil drink 46% more alcohol than in Argentina

Argentina: 7.1 litres (2023) · Brazil: 10.4 litres (2023)

Argentina has 10% more meat per person than Brazil

Argentina: 115 kg (2023) · Brazil: 104.6 kg (2023)

Brazil has 63 kcal more food per person per day than Argentina

Argentina: 3,360 kcal (2023) · Brazil: 3,423 kcal (2023)

Workers in Brazil put in 382 more hours a year than in Argentina

Argentina: 1,612 hours (2023) · Brazil: 1,994 hours (2023)

Adults in Argentina went to school 2.8 years longer than in Brazil

Argentina: 11.2 years (2023) · Brazil: 8.4 years (2023)

Argentina welcomed 4.5 times as many tourists per resident as Brazil (2019)

Argentina: 0.14 (2024) · Brazil: 0.03 (2024)

Brazil has 14 more World Heritage sites than Argentina (26 against 12)

Argentina: 12 (2026) · Brazil: 26 (2026)

Brazil has won 171 Olympic medals, Argentina 80

Argentina: 80 (2026 edition) · Brazil: 171 (2026 edition)

90% of people in Argentina are online, versus 84% in Brazil

Argentina: 90% (2024) · Brazil: 84% (2024)

Home internet in Brazil is 52% faster than in Argentina

Argentina: 192 Mbps (2026) · Brazil: 293 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Brazil have electricity, versus 98% in Argentina

Argentina: 98.4% (2024) · Brazil: 99.8% (2024)

92% of people in Argentina live in cities, versus 88% in Brazil

Argentina: 92% (2025) · Brazil: 88% (2025)

Argentina has 140 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Brazil 102

Argentina: 140 (2024) · Brazil: 102 (2024)

Brazil’s railway network is 67% longer than Argentina’s

Argentina: 17,866 km (2019) · Brazil: 29,850 km (2014)

Airlines from Argentina fly 2% more passengers per resident than those from Brazil

Argentina: 0.46 (2023) · Brazil: 0.45 (2023)

Forest covers 59% of Brazil, but only 17% of Argentina

Argentina: 17.1% (2024) · Brazil: 58.5% (2024)

The average person in Argentina emits 64% more CO₂ than someone in Brazil

Argentina: 3.7 t (2024) · Brazil: 2.3 t (2024)

87% of Brazil’s electricity is renewable, versus 35% in Argentina

Argentina: 34.6% (2025) · Brazil: 86.6% (2025)

The air in Brazil carries 6% more fine dust than in Argentina

Argentina: 14.5 µg/m³ (2024) · Brazil: 15.3 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 4.3 times as likely to be murdered in Brazil as in Argentina

Argentina: 4.5 per 100k (2023) · Brazil: 19.3 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Brazil are 59% deadlier than in Argentina

Argentina: 16.3 per 100k (2023) · Brazil: 25.9 per 100k (2023)

Brazil is on average 10.2 °C warmer than Argentina

Argentina: 15.1°C (2016–2025 avg) · Brazil: 25.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Brazil gets 2.5 times as much rain as Argentina

Argentina: 670 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Brazil: 1,661 mm (2016–2025 avg)