The Philippines’ coastline is 7.3 times as long as Argentina’s

Argentina: 4,989 km (2026 edition) · Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition)

Argentina’s highest peak towers 4,008 m above the Philippines’

Argentina: 6,962 m (2026 edition) · Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 43% of the Philippines, versus 30% of Argentina

Argentina: 29.5% (2024) · Philippines: 42.7% (2024)

The Philippines has 2.5 times as many people as Argentina

Argentina: 45.9 million (2025) · Philippines: 117 million (2025)

The Philippines is 23 times as densely populated as Argentina

Argentina: 17 per km² (2025) · Philippines: 392 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Argentina is 6.8 years older than in the Philippines

Argentina: 32.1 years (2023) · Philippines: 25.3 years (2023)

Women in the Philippines have 0.4 more children on average than in Argentina

Argentina: 1.5 children per woman (2024) · Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024)

13% of people in Argentina are 65 or older, versus 5.7% in the Philippines

Argentina: 12.6% (2025) · Philippines: 5.7% (2025)

Argentina hosts 12 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Argentina: 0.1 per 1,000 (2025) · Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025)

Argentina has produced 0.9 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, the Philippines 0.1

Argentina: 0.9 (2026) · Philippines: 0.1 (2026)

Argentina and the Philippines are practically level

Argentina: 2 (2026) · Philippines: 2 (2026)

Argentina’s economy is 40% larger than the Philippines’

Argentina: $683 billion (2025) · Philippines: $487 billion (2025)

Argentina produces 2.6 times as much per person as the Philippines

Argentina: Int$32,587 (2025) · Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Argentina than in the Philippines (Gini 3.1 points higher)

Argentina: 42.4 (2024) · Philippines: 39.3 (2023)

5.3% of people in the Philippines live on less than $3 a day, versus 1.0% in Argentina

Argentina: 1% (2024) · Philippines: 5.3% (2023)

Unemployment is 7.1% in Argentina, versus 2.2% in the Philippines

Argentina: 7.1% (2025) · Philippines: 2.2% (2025)

The Philippines spends 1.3% of its GDP on the military, Argentina 0.6%

Argentina: 0.6% (2025) · Philippines: 1.3% (2025)

The Philippines’ central government collects 14% of GDP in tax, Argentina’s 10%

Argentina: 10.4% (2024) · Philippines: 14.4% (2024)

Argentina’s price level (US = 100) is 1.4× the Philippines’

Argentina: 46% (2025) · Philippines: 33% (2025)

Argentina spends 7.5 times as much on health per person as the Philippines

Argentina: $1,457 (2023) · Philippines: $194 (2023)

A baby in the Philippines is 2.7 times as likely to die before turning one as in Argentina

Argentina: 8 per 1,000 (2024) · Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Argentina has 6.4 times as many doctors per person as the Philippines

Argentina: 5.1 per 1,000 (2023) · Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021)

Argentina has 3.5 times as many hospital beds per person as the Philippines

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

The suicide rate in Argentina is 3.6 times that in the Philippines

Argentina: 11.2 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023)

38% of adults in Argentina are obese, versus 9.7% in the Philippines

Argentina: 38.1% (2024) · Philippines: 9.7% (2024)

24% of adults in Argentina smoke, versus 20% in the Philippines

Argentina: 23.5% (2024) · Philippines: 19.9% (2024)

People in Argentina rate their lives 0.22 points higher than in the Philippines

Argentina: 6.43 (2025) · Philippines: 6.21 (2025)

Adults in Argentina drink 16% more alcohol than in the Philippines

Argentina: 7.1 litres (2023) · Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023)

Argentina has 3.4 times as much meat per person as the Philippines

Argentina: 115 kg (2023) · Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023)

Argentina has 378 kcal more food per person per day than the Philippines

Argentina: 3,360 kcal (2023) · Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023)

Workers in the Philippines put in 484 more hours a year than in Argentina

Argentina: 1,612 hours (2023) · Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023)

Adults in Argentina went to school 1.2 years longer than in the Philippines

Argentina: 11.2 years (2023) · Philippines: 10 years (2023)

Argentina welcomed 6.2 times as many tourists per resident as the Philippines (2019)

Argentina: 0.14 (2024) · Philippines: 0.02 (2022)

Argentina has 6 more World Heritage sites than the Philippines (12 against 6)

Argentina: 12 (2026) · Philippines: 6 (2026)

Argentina has won 80 Olympic medals, the Philippines 18

Argentina: 80 (2026 edition) · Philippines: 18 (2026 edition)

90% of people in Argentina are online, versus 67% in the Philippines

Argentina: 90% (2024) · Philippines: 67% (2024)

Home internet in Argentina is 16% faster than in the Philippines

Argentina: 192 Mbps (2026) · Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026)

98% of people in Argentina have electricity, versus 95% in the Philippines

Argentina: 98.4% (2024) · Philippines: 94.8% (2024)

92% of people in Argentina live in cities, versus 56% in the Philippines

Argentina: 92% (2025) · Philippines: 56% (2025)

Argentina has 140 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, the Philippines 115

Argentina: 140 (2024) · Philippines: 115 (2024)

Argentina’s railway network is 35 times as long as the Philippines’

Argentina: 17,866 km (2019) · Philippines: 509 km (2016)

Airlines from Argentina fly 29% more passengers per resident than those from the Philippines

Argentina: 0.46 (2023) · Philippines: 0.36 (2023)

Forest covers 25% of the Philippines, but only 17% of Argentina

Argentina: 17.1% (2024) · Philippines: 24.8% (2024)

The average person in Argentina emits 2.5 times as much CO₂ as someone in the Philippines

Argentina: 3.7 t (2024) · Philippines: 1.5 t (2024)

35% of Argentina’s electricity is renewable, versus 23% in the Philippines

Argentina: 34.6% (2025) · Philippines: 23.3% (2025)

The air in the Philippines carries 59% more fine dust than in Argentina

Argentina: 14.5 µg/m³ (2024) · Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 3% more likely to be murdered in Argentina than in the Philippines

Argentina: 4.5 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 4.3 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Argentina are 18% deadlier than in the Philippines

Argentina: 16.3 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 11.2 °C warmer than Argentina

Argentina: 15.1°C (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Philippines gets 4.5 times as much rain as Argentina

Argentina: 670 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg)