Greece’s coastline is 206 times as long as Belgium’s

Belgium: 67 km (2026 edition) · Greece: 13,676 km (2026 edition)

Greece’s highest peak towers 2,223 m above Belgium’s

Belgium: 694 m (2026 edition) · Greece: 2,917 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 44% of Belgium, versus 39% of Greece

Belgium: 44.4% (2024) · Greece: 38.9% (2024)

Belgium has 15% more people than Greece

Belgium: 11.9 million (2025) · Greece: 10.4 million (2025)

Belgium is 4.8 times as densely populated as Greece

Belgium: 392 per km² (2025) · Greece: 81 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Greece is 4.3 years older than in Belgium

Belgium: 41.4 years (2023) · Greece: 45.7 years (2023)

Women in Belgium have 0.2 more children on average than in Greece

Belgium: 1.44 children per woman (2024) · Greece: 1.24 children per woman (2024)

24% of people in Greece are 65 or older, versus 21% in Belgium

Belgium: 21% (2025) · Greece: 24.4% (2025)

Belgium hosts 21% more refugees per resident than Greece

Belgium: 15.6 per 1,000 (2025) · Greece: 12.9 per 1,000 (2025)

Belgium has produced 8.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Greece 1.0

Belgium: 8.4 (2026) · Greece: 1 (2026)

Belgium has 3 official languages, Greece 1

Belgium: 3 (2026) · Greece: 1 (2026)

Belgium’s economy is 2.6 times the size of Greece’s

Belgium: $725 billion (2025) · Greece: $281 billion (2025)

Belgium produces 65% more per person than Greece

Belgium: Int$74,676 (2025) · Greece: Int$45,264 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Greece than in Belgium (Gini 6.6 points higher)

Belgium: 26.8 (2023) · Greece: 33.4 (2023)

0.6% of people in Greece live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.1% in Belgium

Belgium: 0.1% (2023) · Greece: 0.6% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.5% in Greece, versus 5.9% in Belgium

Belgium: 5.9% (2025) · Greece: 8.5% (2025)

Greece spends 3.0% of its GDP on the military, Belgium 2.0%

Belgium: 2% (2025) · Greece: 3% (2025)

Greece’s central government collects 27% of GDP in tax, Belgium’s 23%

Belgium: 23% (2024) · Greece: 27.4% (2024)

Belgium’s price level (US = 100) is 1.4× Greece’s

Belgium: 81% (2025) · Greece: 60% (2025)

Belgium spends 3 times as much on health per person as Greece

Belgium: $5,931 (2023) · Greece: $1,963 (2023)

A baby in Greece is 3% more likely to die before turning one than in Belgium

Belgium: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Greece: 3.2 per 1,000 (2024)

Greece has 84% more doctors per person than Belgium

Belgium: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Greece: 6.6 per 1,000 (2022)

Belgium has 27% more hospital beds per person than Greece

Belgium: 5.4 per 1,000 (2023) · Greece: 4.3 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Belgium is 3.9 times that in Greece

Belgium: 15.1 per 100k (2023) · Greece: 3.9 per 100k (2023)

34% of adults in Greece are obese, versus 23% in Belgium

Belgium: 22.9% (2024) · Greece: 33.7% (2024)

30% of adults in Greece smoke, versus 24% in Belgium

Belgium: 23.5% (2024) · Greece: 30.2% (2024)

People in Belgium rate their lives 1.23 points higher than in Greece

Belgium: 6.93 (2025) · Greece: 5.70 (2025)

Adults in Belgium drink 11% more alcohol than in Greece

Belgium: 9.5 litres (2023) · Greece: 8.6 litres (2023)

Greece has 37% more meat per person than Belgium

Belgium: 60 kg (2023) · Greece: 82 kg (2023)

Belgium has 540 kcal more food per person per day than Greece

Belgium: 3,921 kcal (2023) · Greece: 3,382 kcal (2023)

Workers in Greece put in 300 more hours a year than in Belgium

Belgium: 1,593 hours (2023) · Greece: 1,893 hours (2023)

Adults in Belgium went to school 1.1 years longer than in Greece

Belgium: 12.7 years (2023) · Greece: 11.6 years (2023)

Greece welcomed 3.3 times as many tourists per resident as Belgium (2019)

Belgium: 0.81 (2024) · Greece: 2.67 (2022)

Greece has 5 more World Heritage sites than Belgium (21 against 16)

Belgium: 16 (2026) · Greece: 21 (2026)

Belgium has won 177 Olympic medals, Greece 129

Belgium: 177 (2026 edition) · Greece: 129 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Belgium are online, versus 86% in Greece

Belgium: 96% (2024) · Greece: 86% (2024)

Home internet in Belgium is 36% faster than in Greece

Belgium: 254 Mbps (2026) · Greece: 186 Mbps (2026)

Belgium and Greece are practically level

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

88% of people in Belgium live in cities, versus 79% in Greece

Belgium: 88% (2025) · Greece: 79% (2025)

Greece has 114 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Belgium 104

Belgium: 104 (2024) · Greece: 114 (2024)

Belgium’s railway network is 54% longer than Greece’s

Belgium: 3,612 km (2021) · Greece: 2,339 km (2021)

Airlines from Greece fly 92% more passengers per resident than those from Belgium

Belgium: 0.95 (2023) · Greece: 1.83 (2023)

Forest covers 37% of Greece, but only 22% of Belgium

Belgium: 22% (2024) · Greece: 36.9% (2024)

The average person in Belgium emits 37% more CO₂ than someone in Greece

Belgium: 7.3 t (2024) · Greece: 5.3 t (2024)

50% of Greece’s electricity is renewable, versus 39% in Belgium

Belgium: 38.9% (2025) · Greece: 49.7% (2025)

The air in Greece carries 62% more fine dust than in Belgium

Belgium: 9.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Greece: 15.1 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 29% more likely to be murdered in Belgium than in Greece

Belgium: 1.1 per 100k (2021) · Greece: 0.8 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Greece are 59% deadlier than in Belgium

Belgium: 6.8 per 100k (2023) · Greece: 10.8 per 100k (2023)

Greece is on average 4.7 °C warmer than Belgium

Belgium: 11°C (2016–2025 avg) · Greece: 15.7°C (2016–2025 avg)

Belgium gets 16% more rain than Greece

Belgium: 928 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Greece: 800 mm (2016–2025 avg)