The Philippines’ coastline is 4.8 times as long as Brazil’s

Brazil: 7,491 km (2026 edition) · Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition)

Brazil’s highest peak towers 40 m above the Philippines’

Brazil: 2,994 m (2026 edition) · Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 43% of the Philippines, versus 28% of Brazil

Brazil: 28.4% (2024) · Philippines: 42.7% (2024)

Brazil has 82% more people than the Philippines

Brazil: 213 million (2025) · Philippines: 117 million (2025)

The Philippines is 15 times as densely populated as Brazil

Brazil: 25 per km² (2025) · Philippines: 392 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Brazil is 8.7 years older than in the Philippines

Brazil: 33.9 years (2023) · Philippines: 25.3 years (2023)

Women in the Philippines have 0.3 more children on average than in Brazil

Brazil: 1.61 children per woman (2024) · Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024)

11% of people in Brazil are 65 or older, versus 5.7% in the Philippines

Brazil: 11.5% (2025) · Philippines: 5.7% (2025)

Brazil hosts 148 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Brazil: 1.3 per 1,000 (2025) · Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025)

The Philippines has produced 0.1 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Brazil 0.0

Brazil: 0.047 (2026) · Philippines: 0.1 (2026)

The Philippines has 2 official languages, Brazil 1

Brazil: 1 (2026) · Philippines: 2 (2026)

Brazil’s economy is 4.7 times the size of the Philippines’

Brazil: $2.28 trillion (2025) · Philippines: $487 billion (2025)

Brazil produces 86% more per person than the Philippines

Brazil: Int$23,433 (2025) · Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Brazil than in the Philippines (Gini 11 points higher)

Brazil: 50.3 (2024) · Philippines: 39.3 (2023)

5.3% of people in the Philippines live on less than $3 a day, versus 3.0% in Brazil

Brazil: 3% (2024) · Philippines: 5.3% (2023)

Unemployment is 6.0% in Brazil, versus 2.2% in the Philippines

Brazil: 6% (2025) · Philippines: 2.2% (2025)

The Philippines and Brazil are practically level

Brazil: 1.1% (2025) · Philippines: 1.3% (2025)

Brazil’s central government collects 15% of GDP in tax, the Philippines’ 14%

Brazil: 15.4% (2024) · Philippines: 14.4% (2024)

Brazil’s price level (US = 100) is 1.4× the Philippines’

Brazil: 46% (2025) · Philippines: 33% (2025)

Brazil spends 5.2 times as much on health per person as the Philippines

Brazil: $1,010 (2023) · Philippines: $194 (2023)

A baby in the Philippines is 76% more likely to die before turning one than in Brazil

Brazil: 12.3 per 1,000 (2024) · Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Brazil has 3 times as many doctors per person as the Philippines

Brazil: 2.4 per 1,000 (2023) · Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021)

Brazil has 2.6 times as many hospital beds per person as the Philippines

Brazil: 2.5 per 1,000 (2021) · Philippines: 1 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in Brazil is 2.8 times that in the Philippines

Brazil: 8.8 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023)

31% of adults in Brazil are obese, versus 9.7% in the Philippines

Brazil: 30.9% (2024) · Philippines: 9.7% (2024)

20% of adults in the Philippines smoke, versus 12% in Brazil

Brazil: 11.9% (2024) · Philippines: 19.9% (2024)

People in Brazil rate their lives 0.43 points higher than in the Philippines

Brazil: 6.63 (2025) · Philippines: 6.21 (2025)

Adults in Brazil drink 70% more alcohol than in the Philippines

Brazil: 10.4 litres (2023) · Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023)

Brazil has 3.1 times as much meat per person as the Philippines

Brazil: 104.6 kg (2023) · Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023)

Brazil has 441 kcal more food per person per day than the Philippines

Brazil: 3,423 kcal (2023) · Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023)

Workers in the Philippines put in 102 more hours a year than in Brazil

Brazil: 1,994 hours (2023) · Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023)

Adults in the Philippines went to school 1.6 years longer than in Brazil

Brazil: 8.4 years (2023) · Philippines: 10 years (2023)

Brazil welcomed 37% more tourists per resident than the Philippines (2019)

Brazil: 0.03 (2024) · Philippines: 0.02 (2022)

Brazil has 20 more World Heritage sites than the Philippines (26 against 6)

Brazil: 26 (2026) · Philippines: 6 (2026)

Brazil has won 171 Olympic medals, the Philippines 18

Brazil: 171 (2026 edition) · Philippines: 18 (2026 edition)

84% of people in Brazil are online, versus 67% in the Philippines

Brazil: 84% (2024) · Philippines: 67% (2024)

Home internet in Brazil is 77% faster than in the Philippines

Brazil: 293 Mbps (2026) · Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026)

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

Brazil: 99.8% (2024) · Philippines: 94.8% (2024)

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

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

The Philippines has 115 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Brazil 102

Brazil: 102 (2024) · Philippines: 115 (2024)

Brazil’s railway network is 59 times as long as the Philippines’

Brazil: 29,850 km (2014) · Philippines: 509 km (2016)

Airlines from Brazil fly 26% more passengers per resident than those from the Philippines

Brazil: 0.45 (2023) · Philippines: 0.36 (2023)

Forest covers 59% of Brazil, but only 25% of the Philippines

Brazil: 58.5% (2024) · Philippines: 24.8% (2024)

The average person in Brazil emits 51% more CO₂ than someone in the Philippines

Brazil: 2.3 t (2024) · Philippines: 1.5 t (2024)

87% of Brazil’s electricity is renewable, versus 23% in the Philippines

Brazil: 86.6% (2025) · Philippines: 23.3% (2025)

The air in the Philippines carries 51% more fine dust than in Brazil

Brazil: 15.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 4.4 times as likely to be murdered in Brazil as in the Philippines

Brazil: 19.3 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 4.3 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Brazil are 88% deadlier than in the Philippines

Brazil: 25.9 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 1.1 °C warmer than Brazil

Brazil: 25.3°C (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Philippines gets 81% more rain than Brazil

Brazil: 1,661 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg)