The Philippines’ coastline is 546 times as long as Belgium’s

Belgium: 67 km (2026 edition) · Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition)

The Philippines’ highest peak towers 2,260 m above Belgium’s

Belgium: 694 m (2026 edition) · Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 44% of Belgium, versus 43% of the Philippines

Belgium: 44.4% (2024) · Philippines: 42.7% (2024)

The Philippines has 9.8 times as many people as Belgium

Belgium: 11.9 million (2025) · Philippines: 117 million (2025)

The Philippines and Belgium are nearly identical here

Belgium: 392 per km² (2025) · Philippines: 392 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Belgium is 16 years older than in the Philippines

Belgium: 41.4 years (2023) · Philippines: 25.3 years (2023)

Women in the Philippines have 0.5 more children on average than in Belgium

Belgium: 1.44 children per woman (2024) · Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Belgium are 65 or older, versus 5.7% in the Philippines

Belgium: 21% (2025) · Philippines: 5.7% (2025)

Belgium hosts 1,766 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Belgium: 15.6 per 1,000 (2025) · Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025)

Belgium has produced 8.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, the Philippines 0.1

Belgium: 8.4 (2026) · Philippines: 0.1 (2026)

Belgium has 3 official languages, the Philippines 2

Belgium: 3 (2026) · Philippines: 2 (2026)

Belgium’s economy is 49% larger than the Philippines’

Belgium: $725 billion (2025) · Philippines: $487 billion (2025)

Belgium produces 5.9 times as much per person as the Philippines

Belgium: Int$74,676 (2025) · Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the Philippines than in Belgium (Gini 12.5 points higher)

Belgium: 26.8 (2023) · Philippines: 39.3 (2023)

5.3% of people in the Philippines live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.1% in Belgium

Belgium: 0.1% (2023) · Philippines: 5.3% (2023)

Unemployment is 5.9% in Belgium, versus 2.2% in the Philippines

Belgium: 5.9% (2025) · Philippines: 2.2% (2025)

Belgium spends 2.0% of its GDP on the military, the Philippines 1.3%

Belgium: 2% (2025) · Philippines: 1.3% (2025)

Belgium’s central government collects 23% of GDP in tax, the Philippines’ 14%

Belgium: 23% (2024) · Philippines: 14.4% (2024)

Belgium’s price level (US = 100) is 2.5× the Philippines’

Belgium: 81% (2025) · Philippines: 33% (2025)

Belgium spends 31 times as much on health per person as the Philippines

Belgium: $5,931 (2023) · Philippines: $194 (2023)

A baby in the Philippines is 7 times as likely to die before turning one as in Belgium

Belgium: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Belgium has 4.5 times as many doctors per person as the Philippines

Belgium: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021)

Belgium has 5.6 times as many hospital beds per person as the Philippines

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

The suicide rate in Belgium is 4.9 times that in the Philippines

Belgium: 15.1 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023)

23% of adults in Belgium are obese, versus 9.7% in the Philippines

Belgium: 22.9% (2024) · Philippines: 9.7% (2024)

24% of adults in Belgium smoke, versus 20% in the Philippines

Belgium: 23.5% (2024) · Philippines: 19.9% (2024)

People in Belgium rate their lives 0.72 points higher than in the Philippines

Belgium: 6.93 (2025) · Philippines: 6.21 (2025)

Adults in Belgium drink 56% more alcohol than in the Philippines

Belgium: 9.5 litres (2023) · Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023)

Belgium has 78% more meat per person than the Philippines

Belgium: 60 kg (2023) · Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023)

Belgium has 938 kcal more food per person per day than the Philippines

Belgium: 3,921 kcal (2023) · Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023)

Workers in the Philippines put in 503 more hours a year than in Belgium

Belgium: 1,593 hours (2023) · Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023)

Adults in Belgium went to school 2.7 years longer than in the Philippines

Belgium: 12.7 years (2023) · Philippines: 10 years (2023)

Belgium welcomed 35 times as many tourists per resident as the Philippines (2019)

Belgium: 0.81 (2024) · Philippines: 0.02 (2022)

Belgium has 10 more World Heritage sites than the Philippines (16 against 6)

Belgium: 16 (2026) · Philippines: 6 (2026)

Belgium has won 177 Olympic medals, the Philippines 18

Belgium: 177 (2026 edition) · Philippines: 18 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Belgium are online, versus 67% in the Philippines

Belgium: 96% (2024) · Philippines: 67% (2024)

Home internet in Belgium is 53% faster than in the Philippines

Belgium: 254 Mbps (2026) · Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Belgium have electricity, versus 95% in the Philippines

Belgium: 100% (2024) · Philippines: 94.8% (2024)

88% of people in Belgium live in cities, versus 56% in the Philippines

Belgium: 88% (2025) · Philippines: 56% (2025)

The Philippines has 115 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Belgium 104

Belgium: 104 (2024) · Philippines: 115 (2024)

Belgium’s railway network is 7.1 times as long as the Philippines’

Belgium: 3,612 km (2021) · Philippines: 509 km (2016)

Airlines from Belgium fly 2.7 times as many passengers per resident as those from the Philippines

Belgium: 0.95 (2023) · Philippines: 0.36 (2023)

Forest covers 25% of the Philippines, but only 22% of Belgium

Belgium: 22% (2024) · Philippines: 24.8% (2024)

The average person in Belgium emits 4.8 times as much CO₂ as someone in the Philippines

Belgium: 7.3 t (2024) · Philippines: 1.5 t (2024)

39% of Belgium’s electricity is renewable, versus 23% in the Philippines

Belgium: 38.9% (2025) · Philippines: 23.3% (2025)

The air in the Philippines carries 2.5 times as much fine dust as in Belgium

Belgium: 9.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 4 times as likely to be murdered in the Philippines as in Belgium

Belgium: 1.1 per 100k (2021) · Philippines: 4.3 per 100k (2023)

Roads in the Philippines are 2 times as deadly as in Belgium

Belgium: 6.8 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 15.3 °C warmer than Belgium

Belgium: 11°C (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Philippines gets 3.2 times as much rain as Belgium

Belgium: 928 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg)