Norway’s coastline is 3.4 times as long as Brazil’s

Brazil: 7,491 km (2026 edition) · Norway: 25,148 km (2026 edition)

Brazil’s highest peak towers 525 m above Norway’s

Brazil: 2,994 m (2026 edition) · Norway: 2,469 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 28% of Brazil, versus 2.7% of Norway

Brazil: 28.4% (2024) · Norway: 2.7% (2024)

Brazil has 38 times as many people as Norway

Brazil: 213 million (2025) · Norway: 5.61 million (2025)

Brazil is 65% more densely populated than Norway

Brazil: 25 per km² (2025) · Norway: 15 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Norway is 5.6 years older than in Brazil

Brazil: 33.9 years (2023) · Norway: 39.5 years (2023)

Women in Brazil have 0.2 more children on average than in Norway

Brazil: 1.61 children per woman (2024) · Norway: 1.45 children per woman (2024)

19% of people in Norway are 65 or older, versus 11% in Brazil

Brazil: 11.5% (2025) · Norway: 19.1% (2025)

Norway hosts 17 times as many refugees per resident as Brazil

Brazil: 1.3 per 1,000 (2025) · Norway: 22.1 per 1,000 (2025)

Norway has produced 23.2 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Brazil 0.0

Brazil: 0.047 (2026) · Norway: 23.2 (2026)

Norway has 3 official languages, Brazil 1

Brazil: 1 (2026) · Norway: 3 (2026)

Brazil’s economy is 4.3 times the size of Norway’s

Brazil: $2.28 trillion (2025) · Norway: $531 billion (2025)

Norway produces 4.4 times as much per person as Brazil

Brazil: Int$23,433 (2025) · Norway: Int$104,044 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Brazil than in Norway (Gini 23.8 points higher)

Brazil: 50.3 (2024) · Norway: 26.5 (2023)

3.0% of people in Brazil live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.2% in Norway

Brazil: 3% (2024) · Norway: 0.2% (2023)

Unemployment is 6.0% in Brazil, versus 4.6% in Norway

Brazil: 6% (2025) · Norway: 4.6% (2025)

Norway spends 3.3% of its GDP on the military, Brazil 1.1%

Brazil: 1.1% (2025) · Norway: 3.3% (2025)

Norway’s central government collects 25% of GDP in tax, Brazil’s 15%

Brazil: 15.4% (2024) · Norway: 24.5% (2024)

Norway’s price level (US = 100) is 2× Brazil’s

Brazil: 46% (2025) · Norway: 91% (2025)

Norway spends 8.2 times as much on health per person as Brazil

Brazil: $1,010 (2023) · Norway: $8,296 (2023)

A baby in Brazil is 6.2 times as likely to die before turning one as in Norway

Brazil: 12.3 per 1,000 (2024) · Norway: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Norway has 2.1 times as many doctors per person as Brazil

Brazil: 2.4 per 1,000 (2023) · Norway: 5 per 1,000 (2023)

Norway has 31% more hospital beds per person than Brazil

Brazil: 2.5 per 1,000 (2021) · Norway: 3.3 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Norway is 32% higher than in Brazil

Brazil: 8.8 per 100k (2023) · Norway: 11.6 per 100k (2023)

31% of adults in Brazil are obese, versus 21% in Norway

Brazil: 30.9% (2024) · Norway: 20.7% (2024)

13% of adults in Norway smoke, versus 12% in Brazil

Brazil: 11.9% (2024) · Norway: 12.9% (2024)

People in Norway rate their lives 0.61 points higher than in Brazil

Brazil: 6.63 (2025) · Norway: 7.24 (2025)

Adults in Brazil drink 49% more alcohol than in Norway

Brazil: 10.4 litres (2023) · Norway: 7 litres (2023)

Brazil has 49% more meat per person than Norway

Brazil: 104.6 kg (2023) · Norway: 70.4 kg (2023)

Norway has 52 kcal more food per person per day than Brazil

Brazil: 3,423 kcal (2023) · Norway: 3,476 kcal (2023)

Workers in Brazil put in 582 more hours a year than in Norway

Brazil: 1,994 hours (2023) · Norway: 1,412 hours (2023)

Adults in Norway went to school 4.7 years longer than in Brazil

Brazil: 8.4 years (2023) · Norway: 13.1 years (2023)

Norway welcomed 29 times as many tourists per resident as Brazil (2019)

Brazil: 0.03 (2024) · Norway: 0.91 (2022)

Brazil has 18 more World Heritage sites than Norway (26 against 8)

Brazil: 26 (2026) · Norway: 8 (2026)

Norway has won 616 Olympic medals, Brazil 171

Brazil: 171 (2026 edition) · Norway: 616 (2026 edition)

99% of people in Norway are online, versus 84% in Brazil

Brazil: 84% (2024) · Norway: 99% (2024)

Home internet in Brazil is 28% faster than in Norway

Brazil: 293 Mbps (2026) · Norway: 228 Mbps (2026)

Norway and Brazil are practically level

Brazil: 99.8% (2024) · Norway: 100% (2024)

88% of people in Brazil live in cities, versus 84% in Norway

Brazil: 88% (2025) · Norway: 84% (2025)

Norway has 109 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Brazil 102

Brazil: 102 (2024) · Norway: 109 (2024)

Brazil’s railway network is 7.7 times as long as Norway’s

Brazil: 29,850 km (2014) · Norway: 3,885 km (2021)

Brazil: 0.45 (2023) · Norway: no data

Forest covers 59% of Brazil, but only 33% of Norway

Brazil: 58.5% (2024) · Norway: 33.2% (2024)

The average person in Norway emits 2.9 times as much CO₂ as someone in Brazil

Brazil: 2.3 t (2024) · Norway: 6.7 t (2024)

99% of Norway’s electricity is renewable, versus 87% in Brazil

Brazil: 86.6% (2025) · Norway: 99% (2025)

The air in Brazil carries 2.3 times as much fine dust as in Norway

Brazil: 15.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Norway: 6.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 27 times as likely to be murdered in Brazil as in Norway

Brazil: 19.3 per 100k (2023) · Norway: 0.7 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Brazil are 8.9 times as deadly as in Norway

Brazil: 25.9 per 100k (2023) · Norway: 2.9 per 100k (2023)

Brazil is on average 23.7 °C warmer than Norway

Brazil: 25.3°C (2016–2025 avg) · Norway: 1.6°C (2016–2025 avg)

Brazil gets 32% more rain than Norway

Brazil: 1,661 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Norway: 1,259 mm (2016–2025 avg)