Egypt’s coastline is 37 times as long as Belgium’s

Belgium: 67 km (2026 edition) · Egypt: 2,450 km (2026 edition)

Egypt’s highest peak towers 1,935 m above Belgium’s

Belgium: 694 m (2026 edition) · Egypt: 2,629 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 44% of Belgium, versus 4.2% of Egypt

Belgium: 44.4% (2024) · Egypt: 4.2% (2024)

Egypt has 9.9 times as many people as Belgium

Belgium: 11.9 million (2025) · Egypt: 118 million (2025)

Belgium is 3.3 times as densely populated as Egypt

Belgium: 392 per km² (2025) · Egypt: 119 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Belgium is 17 years older than in Egypt

Belgium: 41.4 years (2023) · Egypt: 24 years (2023)

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

Belgium: 1.44 children per woman (2024) · Egypt: 2.74 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Belgium are 65 or older, versus 5.3% in Egypt

Belgium: 21% (2025) · Egypt: 5.3% (2025)

Belgium hosts 8.4 times as many refugees per resident as Egypt

Belgium: 15.6 per 1,000 (2025) · Egypt: 1.9 per 1,000 (2025)

Belgium has produced 8.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Egypt 0.5

Belgium: 8.4 (2026) · Egypt: 0.5 (2026)

Belgium has 3 official languages, Egypt 1

Belgium: 3 (2026) · Egypt: 1 (2026)

Belgium’s economy is 2 times the size of Egypt’s

Belgium: $725 billion (2025) · Egypt: $365 billion (2025)

Belgium produces 3.7 times as much per person as Egypt

Belgium: Int$74,676 (2025) · Egypt: Int$20,204 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Egypt than in Belgium (Gini 1.7 points higher)

Belgium: 26.8 (2023) · Egypt: 28.5 (2021)

1.4% of people in Egypt live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.1% in Belgium

Belgium: 0.1% (2023) · Egypt: 1.4% (2021)

Unemployment is 6.8% in Egypt, versus 5.9% in Belgium

Belgium: 5.9% (2025) · Egypt: 6.8% (2025)

Belgium spends 2.0% of its GDP on the military, Egypt 0.6%

Belgium: 2% (2025) · Egypt: 0.6% (2025)

Belgium’s central government collects 23% of GDP in tax, Egypt’s 13%

Belgium: 23% (2024) · Egypt: 12.5% (2015)

Belgium’s price level (US = 100) is 5.3× Egypt’s

Belgium: 81% (2025) · Egypt: 15% (2025)

Belgium spends 42 times as much on health per person as Egypt

Belgium: $5,931 (2023) · Egypt: $141 (2023)

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

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

Belgium has 5.3 times as many doctors per person as Egypt

Belgium: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Egypt: 0.7 per 1,000 (2020)

Belgium has 5.1 times as many hospital beds per person as Egypt

Belgium: 5.4 per 1,000 (2023) · Egypt: 1.1 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in Belgium is 19 times that in Egypt

Belgium: 15.1 per 100k (2023) · Egypt: 0.8 per 100k (2023)

43% of adults in Egypt are obese, versus 23% in Belgium

Belgium: 22.9% (2024) · Egypt: 42.8% (2024)

25% of adults in Egypt smoke, versus 24% in Belgium

Belgium: 23.5% (2024) · Egypt: 25% (2024)

People in Belgium rate their lives 3.06 points higher than in Egypt

Belgium: 6.93 (2025) · Egypt: 3.86 (2025)

Adults in Belgium drink 92 times as much alcohol as in Egypt

Belgium: 9.5 litres (2023) · Egypt: 0.1 litres (2023)

Belgium has 2.2 times as much meat per person as Egypt

Belgium: 60 kg (2023) · Egypt: 27.6 kg (2023)

Belgium has 827 kcal more food per person per day than Egypt

Belgium: 3,921 kcal (2023) · Egypt: 3,094 kcal (2023)

Workers in Egypt put in 775 more hours a year than in Belgium

Belgium: 1,593 hours (2023) · Egypt: 2,369 hours (2023)

Adults in Belgium went to school 2.6 years longer than in Egypt

Belgium: 12.7 years (2023) · Egypt: 10.1 years (2023)

Belgium welcomed 7.9 times as many tourists per resident as Egypt (2019)

Belgium: 0.81 (2024) · Egypt: 0.1 (2022)

Belgium has 9 more World Heritage sites than Egypt (16 against 7)

Belgium: 16 (2026) · Egypt: 7 (2026)

Belgium has won 177 Olympic medals, Egypt 41

Belgium: 177 (2026 edition) · Egypt: 41 (2026 edition)

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

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

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

Belgium: 254 Mbps (2026) · Egypt: 80 Mbps (2026)

Belgium and Egypt are practically level

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

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

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

Belgium has 104 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Egypt 97

Belgium: 104 (2024) · Egypt: 97 (2024)

Egypt’s railway network is 43% longer than Belgium’s

Belgium: 3,612 km (2021) · Egypt: 5,153 km (2016)

Airlines from Belgium fly 6.8 times as many passengers per resident as those from Egypt

Belgium: 0.95 (2023) · Egypt: 0.14 (2023)

Forest covers 22% of Belgium, but only 0.0% of Egypt

Belgium: 22% (2024) · Egypt: 0% (2024)

The average person in Belgium emits 3.3 times as much CO₂ as someone in Egypt

Belgium: 7.3 t (2024) · Egypt: 2.2 t (2024)

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

Belgium: 38.9% (2025) · Egypt: 13% (2025)

The air in Egypt carries 4.4 times as much fine dust as in Belgium

Belgium: 9.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Egypt: 41.3 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 21% more likely to be murdered in Egypt than in Belgium

Belgium: 1.1 per 100k (2021) · Egypt: 1.3 per 100k (2017)

Roads in Egypt are 82% deadlier than in Belgium

Belgium: 6.8 per 100k (2023) · Egypt: 12.4 per 100k (2023)

Egypt is on average 12.5 °C warmer than Belgium

Belgium: 11°C (2016–2025 avg) · Egypt: 23.5°C (2016–2025 avg)

Belgium gets 76 times as much rain as Egypt

Belgium: 928 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Egypt: 12 mm (2016–2025 avg)