Argentina’s coastline is 55% longer than Sweden’s

Argentina: 4,989 km (2026 edition) · Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition)

Argentina’s highest peak towers 4,862 m above Sweden’s

Argentina: 6,962 m (2026 edition) · Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 30% of Argentina, versus 7.3% of Sweden

Argentina: 29.5% (2024) · Sweden: 7.3% (2024)

Argentina has 4.3 times as many people as Sweden

Argentina: 45.9 million (2025) · Sweden: 10.6 million (2025)

Sweden is 55% more densely populated than Argentina

Argentina: 17 per km² (2025) · Sweden: 26 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sweden is 7.8 years older than in Argentina

Argentina: 32.1 years (2023) · Sweden: 39.9 years (2023)

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

Argentina: 1.5 children per woman (2024) · Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Sweden are 65 or older, versus 13% in Argentina

Argentina: 12.6% (2025) · Sweden: 20.9% (2025)

Sweden hosts 126 times as many refugees per resident as Argentina

Argentina: 0.1 per 1,000 (2025) · Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Sweden has produced 28.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Argentina 0.9

Argentina: 0.9 (2026) · Sweden: 28.3 (2026)

Argentina has 2 official languages, Sweden 1

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

Argentina’s economy is 2% larger than Sweden’s

Argentina: $683 billion (2025) · Sweden: $669 billion (2025)

Sweden produces 2.2 times as much per person as Argentina

Argentina: Int$32,587 (2025) · Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Argentina than in Sweden (Gini 13.1 points higher)

Argentina: 42.4 (2024) · Sweden: 29.3 (2023)

Argentina and Sweden are practically level

Argentina: 1% (2024) · Sweden: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.7% in Sweden, versus 7.1% in Argentina

Argentina: 7.1% (2025) · Sweden: 8.7% (2025)

Sweden spends 2.5% of its GDP on the military, Argentina 0.6%

Argentina: 0.6% (2025) · Sweden: 2.5% (2025)

Sweden’s central government collects 27% of GDP in tax, Argentina’s 10%

Argentina: 10.4% (2024) · Sweden: 27.2% (2024)

Sweden’s price level (US = 100) is 1.9× Argentina’s

Argentina: 46% (2025) · Sweden: 87% (2025)

Sweden spends 4.5 times as much on health per person as Argentina

Argentina: $1,457 (2023) · Sweden: $6,485 (2024)

A baby in Argentina is 4 times as likely to die before turning one as in Sweden

Argentina: 8 per 1,000 (2024) · Sweden: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Argentina has 16% more doctors per person than Sweden

Argentina: 5.1 per 1,000 (2023) · Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021)

Argentina has 77% more hospital beds per person than Sweden

Argentina: 3.4 per 1,000 (2022) · Sweden: 1.9 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Sweden is 13% higher than in Argentina

Argentina: 11.2 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023)

38% of adults in Argentina are obese, versus 19% in Sweden

Argentina: 38.1% (2024) · Sweden: 18.7% (2024)

24% of adults in Argentina smoke, versus 20% in Sweden

Argentina: 23.5% (2024) · Sweden: 20.3% (2024)

People in Sweden rate their lives 0.83 points higher than in Argentina

Argentina: 6.43 (2025) · Sweden: 7.26 (2025)

Adults in Sweden drink 22% more alcohol than in Argentina

Argentina: 7.1 litres (2023) · Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023)

Argentina has 68% more meat per person than Sweden

Argentina: 115 kg (2023) · Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023)

Sweden and Argentina are practically level

Argentina: 3,360 kcal (2023) · Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023)

Workers in Argentina put in 181 more hours a year than in Sweden

Argentina: 1,612 hours (2023) · Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023)

Adults in Sweden went to school 1.6 years longer than in Argentina

Argentina: 11.2 years (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 years (2023)

Sweden welcomed 4.4 times as many tourists per resident as Argentina (2019)

Argentina: 0.14 (2024) · Sweden: 0.63 (2022)

Sweden has 3 more World Heritage sites than Argentina (15 against 12)

Argentina: 12 (2026) · Sweden: 15 (2026)

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, Argentina 80

Argentina: 80 (2026 edition) · Sweden: 709 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Sweden are online, versus 90% in Argentina

Argentina: 90% (2024) · Sweden: 96% (2025)

Home internet in Sweden is 29% faster than in Argentina

Argentina: 192 Mbps (2026) · Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026)

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

Argentina: 98.4% (2024) · Sweden: 100% (2024)

92% of people in Argentina live in cities, versus 89% in Sweden

Argentina: 92% (2025) · Sweden: 89% (2025)

Sweden and Argentina are practically level

Argentina: 140 (2024) · Sweden: 141 (2024)

Argentina’s railway network is 84% longer than Sweden’s

Argentina: 17,866 km (2019) · Sweden: 9,714 km (2021)

Airlines from Sweden fly 4 times as many passengers per resident as those from Argentina

Argentina: 0.46 (2023) · Sweden: 1.85 (2023)

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 17% of Argentina

Argentina: 17.1% (2024) · Sweden: 68.6% (2024)

The average person in Argentina emits 4% more CO₂ than someone in Sweden

Argentina: 3.7 t (2024) · Sweden: 3.6 t (2024)

71% of Sweden’s electricity is renewable, versus 35% in Argentina

Argentina: 34.6% (2025) · Sweden: 71.2% (2025)

The air in Argentina carries 2.5 times as much fine dust as in Sweden

Argentina: 14.5 µg/m³ (2024) · Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 3.9 times as likely to be murdered in Argentina as in Sweden

Argentina: 4.5 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 1.1 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Argentina are 4.8 times as deadly as in Sweden

Argentina: 16.3 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023)

Argentina is on average 10.8 °C warmer than Sweden

Argentina: 15.1°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 4.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Sweden gets 20% more rain than Argentina

Argentina: 670 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 801 mm (2016–2025 avg)