Australia’s coastline is 11 times as long as Egypt’s

Australia: 25,760 km (2026 edition) · Egypt: 2,450 km (2026 edition)

Egypt’s highest peak towers 401 m above Australia’s

Australia: 2,228 m (2026 edition) · Egypt: 2,629 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 47% of Australia, versus 4.2% of Egypt

Australia: 47.3% (2024) · Egypt: 4.2% (2024)

Egypt has 4.3 times as many people as Australia

Australia: 27.6 million (2025) · Egypt: 118 million (2025)

Egypt is 33 times as densely populated as Australia

Australia: 4 per km² (2025) · Egypt: 119 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Australia is 14 years older than in Egypt

Australia: 37.8 years (2023) · Egypt: 24 years (2023)

Women in Egypt have 1.3 more children on average than in Australia

Australia: 1.48 children per woman (2024) · Egypt: 2.74 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in Australia are 65 or older, versus 5.3% in Egypt

Australia: 18.1% (2025) · Egypt: 5.3% (2025)

Egypt hosts 54% more refugees per resident than Australia

Australia: 1.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Egypt: 1.9 per 1,000 (2025)

Australia has produced 3.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Egypt 0.5

Australia: 3.6 (2026) · Egypt: 0.5 (2026)

Australia and Egypt are practically level

Australia: 1 (2026) · Egypt: 1 (2026)

Australia’s economy is 4.9 times the size of Egypt’s

Australia: $1.8 trillion (2025) · Egypt: $365 billion (2025)

Australia produces 3.6 times as much per person as Egypt

Australia: Int$71,934 (2025) · Egypt: Int$20,204 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Australia than in Egypt (Gini 5.3 points higher)

Australia: 33.8 (2020) · Egypt: 28.5 (2021)

Egypt and Australia are practically level

Australia: 0.9% (2020) · Egypt: 1.4% (2021)

Unemployment is 6.8% in Egypt, versus 4.1% in Australia

Australia: 4.1% (2025) · Egypt: 6.8% (2025)

Australia spends 1.9% of its GDP on the military, Egypt 0.6%

Australia: 1.9% (2025) · Egypt: 0.6% (2025)

Australia’s central government collects 24% of GDP in tax, Egypt’s 13%

Australia: 23.6% (2022) · Egypt: 12.5% (2015)

Australia’s price level (US = 100) is 5.9× Egypt’s

Australia: 91% (2025) · Egypt: 15% (2025)

Australia spends 49 times as much on health per person as Egypt

Australia: $6,980 (2023) · Egypt: $141 (2023)

A baby in Egypt is 6.7 times as likely to die before turning one as in Australia

Australia: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Egypt: 20.8 per 1,000 (2024)

Australia has 6.1 times as many doctors per person as Egypt

Australia: 4.1 per 1,000 (2022) · Egypt: 0.7 per 1,000 (2020)

Australia has 3.6 times as many hospital beds per person as Egypt

Australia: 3.8 per 1,000 (2016) · Egypt: 1.1 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in Australia is 16 times that in Egypt

Australia: 12.6 per 100k (2023) · Egypt: 0.8 per 100k (2023)

43% of adults in Egypt are obese, versus 32% in Australia

Australia: 32.4% (2024) · Egypt: 42.8% (2024)

25% of adults in Egypt smoke, versus 12% in Australia

Australia: 11.6% (2024) · Egypt: 25% (2024)

People in Australia rate their lives 3.05 points higher than in Egypt

Australia: 6.92 (2025) · Egypt: 3.86 (2025)

Adults in Australia drink 102 times as much alcohol as in Egypt

Australia: 10.5 litres (2023) · Egypt: 0.1 litres (2023)

Australia has 4.2 times as much meat per person as Egypt

Australia: 116.8 kg (2023) · Egypt: 27.6 kg (2023)

Australia has 468 kcal more food per person per day than Egypt

Australia: 3,562 kcal (2023) · Egypt: 3,094 kcal (2023)

Workers in Egypt put in 757 more hours a year than in Australia

Australia: 1,611 hours (2023) · Egypt: 2,369 hours (2023)

Adults in Australia went to school 2.7 years longer than in Egypt

Australia: 12.9 years (2023) · Egypt: 10.1 years (2023)

Australia: no data · Egypt: 0.1 (2022)

Australia has 14 more World Heritage sites than Egypt (21 against 7)

Australia: 21 (2026) · Egypt: 7 (2026)

Australia has won 619 Olympic medals, Egypt 41

Australia: 619 (2026 edition) · Egypt: 41 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Australia are online, versus 75% in Egypt

Australia: 96% (2024) · Egypt: 75% (2024)

Home internet in Australia is 3.2 times as fast as in Egypt

Australia: 261 Mbps (2026) · Egypt: 80 Mbps (2026)

Australia and Egypt are practically level

Australia: 100% (2024) · Egypt: 100% (2024)

88% of people in Australia live in cities, versus 43% in Egypt

Australia: 88% (2025) · Egypt: 43% (2025)

Australia has 113 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Egypt 97

Australia: 113 (2024) · Egypt: 97 (2024)

Australia’s railway network is 6.3 times as long as Egypt’s

Australia: 32,606 km (2022) · Egypt: 5,153 km (2016)

Airlines from Australia fly 18 times as many passengers per resident as those from Egypt

Australia: 2.5 (2023) · Egypt: 0.14 (2023)

Forest covers 17% of Australia, but only 0.0% of Egypt

Australia: 17.4% (2024) · Egypt: 0% (2024)

The average person in Australia emits 6.5 times as much CO₂ as someone in Egypt

Australia: 14.5 t (2024) · Egypt: 2.2 t (2024)

39% of Australia’s electricity is renewable, versus 13% in Egypt

Australia: 38.6% (2025) · Egypt: 13% (2025)

The air in Egypt carries 7.6 times as much fine dust as in Australia

Australia: 5.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Egypt: 41.3 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 54% more likely to be murdered in Egypt than in Australia

Australia: 0.9 per 100k (2023) · Egypt: 1.3 per 100k (2017)

Roads in Egypt are 65% deadlier than in Australia

Australia: 7.5 per 100k (2023) · Egypt: 12.4 per 100k (2023)

Egypt is on average 1.1 °C warmer than Australia

Australia: 22.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Egypt: 23.5°C (2016–2025 avg)

Australia gets 37 times as much rain as Egypt

Australia: 447 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Egypt: 12 mm (2016–2025 avg)