Australia’s coastline is 48 times as long as Kenya’s

Australia: 25,760 km (2026 edition) · Kenya: 536 km (2026 edition)

Kenya’s highest peak towers 2,971 m above Australia’s

Australia: 2,228 m (2026 edition) · Kenya: 5,199 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 50% of Kenya, versus 47% of Australia

Australia: 47.3% (2024) · Kenya: 50% (2024)

Kenya has 2.1 times as many people as Australia

Australia: 27.6 million (2025) · Kenya: 57.5 million (2025)

Kenya is 28 times as densely populated as Australia

Australia: 4 per km² (2025) · Kenya: 99 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Australia is 18 years older than in Kenya

Australia: 37.8 years (2023) · Kenya: 19.5 years (2023)

Women in Kenya have 1.7 more children on average than in Australia

Australia: 1.48 children per woman (2024) · Kenya: 3.17 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in Australia are 65 or older, versus 3.0% in Kenya

Australia: 18.1% (2025) · Kenya: 3% (2025)

Kenya hosts 8.9 times as many refugees per resident as Australia

Australia: 1.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Kenya: 10.7 per 1,000 (2025)

Australia has produced 3.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Kenya 0.2

Australia: 3.6 (2026) · Kenya: 0.2 (2026)

Kenya has 2 official languages, Australia 1

Australia: 1 (2026) · Kenya: 2 (2026)

Australia’s economy is 13 times the size of Kenya’s

Australia: $1.8 trillion (2025) · Kenya: $136 billion (2025)

Australia produces 10 times as much per person as Kenya

Australia: Int$71,934 (2025) · Kenya: Int$7,016 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Kenya than in Australia (Gini 4.7 points higher)

Australia: 33.8 (2020) · Kenya: 38.5 (2022)

46% of people in Kenya live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.9% in Australia

Australia: 0.9% (2020) · Kenya: 45.5% (2022)

Unemployment is 5.4% in Kenya, versus 4.1% in Australia

Australia: 4.1% (2025) · Kenya: 5.4% (2025)

Australia spends 1.9% of its GDP on the military, Kenya 1.1%

Australia: 1.9% (2025) · Kenya: 1.1% (2025)

Australia’s central government collects 24% of GDP in tax, Kenya’s 14%

Australia: 23.6% (2022) · Kenya: 14.1% (2023)

Australia’s price level (US = 100) is 2.7× Kenya’s

Australia: 91% (2025) · Kenya: 34% (2025)

Australia spends 82 times as much on health per person as Kenya

Australia: $6,980 (2023) · Kenya: $85 (2023)

A baby in Kenya is 11 times as likely to die before turning one as in Australia

Australia: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Kenya: 34.2 per 1,000 (2024)

Australia has 14 times as many doctors per person as Kenya

Australia: 4.1 per 1,000 (2022) · Kenya: 0.3 per 1,000 (2023)

Australia has 2.9 times as many hospital beds per person as Kenya

Australia: 3.8 per 1,000 (2016) · Kenya: 1.3 per 1,000 (2019)

The suicide rate in Kenya is 52% higher than in Australia

Australia: 12.6 per 100k (2023) · Kenya: 19.1 per 100k (2023)

32% of adults in Australia are obese, versus 10% in Kenya

Australia: 32.4% (2024) · Kenya: 10.4% (2024)

12% of adults in Australia smoke, versus 9.6% in Kenya

Australia: 11.6% (2024) · Kenya: 9.6% (2024)

People in Australia rate their lives 2.24 points higher than in Kenya

Australia: 6.92 (2025) · Kenya: 4.67 (2025)

Adults in Australia drink 4.7 times as much alcohol as in Kenya

Australia: 10.5 litres (2023) · Kenya: 2.2 litres (2023)

Australia has 11 times as much meat per person as Kenya

Australia: 116.8 kg (2023) · Kenya: 10.2 kg (2023)

Australia has 1,416 kcal more food per person per day than Kenya

Australia: 3,562 kcal (2023) · Kenya: 2,146 kcal (2023)

Workers in Kenya put in 424 more hours a year than in Australia

Australia: 1,611 hours (2023) · Kenya: 2,035 hours (2023)

Adults in Australia went to school 4.2 years longer than in Kenya

Australia: 12.9 years (2023) · Kenya: 8.6 years (2023)

Australia: no data · Kenya: 0.03 (2017)

Australia has 13 more World Heritage sites than Kenya (21 against 8)

Australia: 21 (2026) · Kenya: 8 (2026)

Australia has won 619 Olympic medals, Kenya 124

Australia: 619 (2026 edition) · Kenya: 124 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Australia are online, versus 35% in Kenya

Australia: 96% (2024) · Kenya: 35% (2024)

Home internet in Australia is 6.3 times as fast as in Kenya

Australia: 261 Mbps (2026) · Kenya: 41 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Australia have electricity, versus 77% in Kenya

Australia: 100% (2024) · Kenya: 77% (2024)

88% of people in Australia live in cities, versus 32% in Kenya

Australia: 88% (2025) · Kenya: 32% (2025)

Kenya has 126 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Australia 113

Australia: 113 (2024) · Kenya: 126 (2024)

Australia’s railway network is 8.5 times as long as Kenya’s

Australia: 32,606 km (2022) · Kenya: 3,819 km (2018)

Airlines from Australia fly 28 times as many passengers per resident as those from Kenya

Australia: 2.5 (2023) · Kenya: 0.09 (2023)

Forest covers 17% of Australia, but only 6.6% of Kenya

Australia: 17.4% (2024) · Kenya: 6.6% (2024)

The average person in Australia emits 38 times as much CO₂ as someone in Kenya

Australia: 14.5 t (2024) · Kenya: 0.4 t (2024)

90% of Kenya’s electricity is renewable, versus 39% in Australia

Australia: 38.6% (2025) · Kenya: 90% (2025)

The air in Kenya carries 4.1 times as much fine dust as in Australia

Australia: 5.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Kenya: 22 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 5.7 times as likely to be murdered in Kenya as in Australia

Australia: 0.9 per 100k (2023) · Kenya: 4.9 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Kenya are 7.4 times as deadly as in Australia

Australia: 7.5 per 100k (2023) · Kenya: 55.3 per 100k (2023)

Kenya is on average 3.2 °C warmer than Australia

Australia: 22.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Kenya: 25.7°C (2016–2025 avg)

Kenya gets 56% more rain than Australia

Australia: 447 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Kenya: 696 mm (2016–2025 avg)