Tanzania’s coastline is 21 times as long as Belgium’s

Belgium: 67 km (2026 edition) · Tanzania: 1,424 km (2026 edition)

Tanzania’s highest peak towers 5,201 m above Belgium’s

Belgium: 694 m (2026 edition) · Tanzania: 5,895 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 45% of Tanzania, versus 44% of Belgium

Belgium: 44.4% (2024) · Tanzania: 45.1% (2024)

Tanzania has 5.9 times as many people as Belgium

Belgium: 11.9 million (2025) · Tanzania: 70.5 million (2025)

Belgium is 4.9 times as densely populated as Tanzania

Belgium: 392 per km² (2025) · Tanzania: 80 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Belgium is 24 years older than in Tanzania

Belgium: 41.4 years (2023) · Tanzania: 17.2 years (2023)

Women in Tanzania have 3.1 more children on average than in Belgium

Belgium: 1.44 children per woman (2024) · Tanzania: 4.54 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Belgium are 65 or older, versus 3.0% in Tanzania

Belgium: 21% (2025) · Tanzania: 3% (2025)

Belgium hosts 6.4 times as many refugees per resident as Tanzania

Belgium: 15.6 per 1,000 (2025) · Tanzania: 2.4 per 1,000 (2025)

Belgium has produced 8.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Tanzania none

Belgium: 8.4 (2026) · Tanzania: 0 (2026)

Belgium has 3 official languages, Tanzania 2

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

Belgium’s economy is 8 times the size of Tanzania’s

Belgium: $725 billion (2025) · Tanzania: $90.1 billion (2025)

Belgium produces 17 times as much per person as Tanzania

Belgium: Int$74,676 (2025) · Tanzania: Int$4,471 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Tanzania than in Belgium (Gini 13.7 points higher)

Belgium: 26.8 (2023) · Tanzania: 40.5 (2018)

51% of people in Tanzania live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.1% in Belgium

Belgium: 0.1% (2023) · Tanzania: 51.3% (2018)

Unemployment is 5.9% in Belgium, versus 1.6% in Tanzania

Belgium: 5.9% (2025) · Tanzania: 1.6% (2025)

Belgium spends 2.0% of its GDP on the military, Tanzania 1.2%

Belgium: 2% (2025) · Tanzania: 1.2% (2025)

Belgium’s central government collects 23% of GDP in tax, Tanzania’s 12%

Belgium: 23% (2024) · Tanzania: 12.3% (2024)

Belgium’s price level (US = 100) is 2.8× Tanzania’s

Belgium: 81% (2025) · Tanzania: 29% (2025)

Belgium spends 164 times as much on health per person as Tanzania

Belgium: $5,931 (2023) · Tanzania: $36 (2023)

A baby in Tanzania is 9.3 times as likely to die before turning one as in Belgium

Belgium: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Tanzania: 28.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Belgium has 27 times as many doctors per person as Tanzania

Belgium: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Tanzania: 0.1 per 1,000 (2022)

Belgium has 6.5 times as many hospital beds per person as Tanzania

Belgium: 5.4 per 1,000 (2023) · Tanzania: 0.8 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Belgium is 1% higher than in Tanzania

Belgium: 15.1 per 100k (2023) · Tanzania: 14.9 per 100k (2023)

23% of adults in Belgium are obese, versus 10% in Tanzania

Belgium: 22.9% (2024) · Tanzania: 10.5% (2024)

24% of adults in Belgium smoke, versus 7.7% in Tanzania

Belgium: 23.5% (2024) · Tanzania: 7.7% (2024)

People in Belgium rate their lives 3.02 points higher than in Tanzania

Belgium: 6.93 (2025) · Tanzania: 3.90 (2025)

Adults in Belgium drink 6.4 times as much alcohol as in Tanzania

Belgium: 9.5 litres (2023) · Tanzania: 1.5 litres (2023)

Belgium has 4.9 times as much meat per person as Tanzania

Belgium: 60 kg (2023) · Tanzania: 12.2 kg (2023)

Belgium has 1,403 kcal more food per person per day than Tanzania

Belgium: 3,921 kcal (2023) · Tanzania: 2,518 kcal (2023)

Workers in Tanzania put in 535 more hours a year than in Belgium

Belgium: 1,593 hours (2023) · Tanzania: 2,129 hours (2023)

Adults in Belgium went to school 6.6 years longer than in Tanzania

Belgium: 12.7 years (2023) · Tanzania: 6.1 years (2023)

Belgium welcomed 36 times as many tourists per resident as Tanzania (2019)

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

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

Belgium: 16 (2026) · Tanzania: 7 (2026)

Belgium has won 177 Olympic medals, Tanzania 2

Belgium: 177 (2026 edition) · Tanzania: 2 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Belgium are online, versus 31% in Tanzania

Belgium: 96% (2024) · Tanzania: 31% (2024)

Home internet in Belgium is 4.5 times as fast as in Tanzania

Belgium: 254 Mbps (2026) · Tanzania: 56 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Belgium have electricity, versus 52% in Tanzania

Belgium: 100% (2024) · Tanzania: 52.4% (2024)

88% of people in Belgium live in cities, versus 37% in Tanzania

Belgium: 88% (2025) · Tanzania: 37% (2025)

Tanzania has 127 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Belgium 104

Belgium: 104 (2024) · Tanzania: 127 (2024)

Belgium’s railway network is 34% longer than Tanzania’s

Belgium: 3,612 km (2021) · Tanzania: 2,701 km (2017)

Airlines from Belgium fly 35 times as many passengers per resident as those from Tanzania

Belgium: 0.95 (2023) · Tanzania: 0.03 (2023)

Forest covers 50% of Tanzania, but only 22% of Belgium

Belgium: 22% (2024) · Tanzania: 49.6% (2024)

The average person in Belgium emits 25 times as much CO₂ as someone in Tanzania

Belgium: 7.3 t (2024) · Tanzania: 0.3 t (2024)

39% of Belgium’s electricity is renewable, versus 33% in Tanzania

Belgium: 38.9% (2025) · Tanzania: 32.9% (2024)

The air in Tanzania carries 2.6 times as much fine dust as in Belgium

Belgium: 9.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Tanzania: 24.6 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 3.5 times as likely to be murdered in Tanzania as in Belgium

Belgium: 1.1 per 100k (2021) · Tanzania: 3.7 per 100k (2020)

Roads in Tanzania are 3 times as deadly as in Belgium

Belgium: 6.8 per 100k (2023) · Tanzania: 20.1 per 100k (2023)

Tanzania is on average 12.1 °C warmer than Belgium

Belgium: 11°C (2016–2025 avg) · Tanzania: 23.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

Tanzania gets 19% more rain than Belgium

Belgium: 928 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Tanzania: 1,102 mm (2016–2025 avg)