Brazil’s coastline is 2.3 times as long as Sweden’s

Brazil: 7,491 km (2026 edition) · Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition)

Brazil’s highest peak towers 894 m above Sweden’s

Brazil: 2,994 m (2026 edition) · Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 28% of Brazil, versus 7.3% of Sweden

Brazil: 28.4% (2024) · Sweden: 7.3% (2024)

Brazil has 20 times as many people as Sweden

Brazil: 213 million (2025) · Sweden: 10.6 million (2025)

Sweden is 2% more densely populated than Brazil

Brazil: 25 per km² (2025) · Sweden: 26 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sweden is 6 years older than in Brazil

Brazil: 33.9 years (2023) · Sweden: 39.9 years (2023)

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

Brazil: 1.61 children per woman (2024) · Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Sweden are 65 or older, versus 11% in Brazil

Brazil: 11.5% (2025) · Sweden: 20.9% (2025)

Sweden hosts 10 times as many refugees per resident as Brazil

Brazil: 1.3 per 1,000 (2025) · Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Sweden has produced 28.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Brazil 0.0

Brazil: 0.047 (2026) · Sweden: 28.3 (2026)

Brazil and Sweden are practically level

Brazil: 1 (2026) · Sweden: 1 (2026)

Brazil’s economy is 3.4 times the size of Sweden’s

Brazil: $2.28 trillion (2025) · Sweden: $669 billion (2025)

Sweden produces 3.1 times as much per person as Brazil

Brazil: Int$23,433 (2025) · Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Brazil than in Sweden (Gini 21 points higher)

Brazil: 50.3 (2024) · Sweden: 29.3 (2023)

3.0% of people in Brazil live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.8% in Sweden

Brazil: 3% (2024) · Sweden: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.7% in Sweden, versus 6.0% in Brazil

Brazil: 6% (2025) · Sweden: 8.7% (2025)

Sweden spends 2.5% of its GDP on the military, Brazil 1.1%

Brazil: 1.1% (2025) · Sweden: 2.5% (2025)

Sweden’s central government collects 27% of GDP in tax, Brazil’s 15%

Brazil: 15.4% (2024) · Sweden: 27.2% (2024)

Sweden’s price level (US = 100) is 1.9× Brazil’s

Brazil: 46% (2025) · Sweden: 87% (2025)

Sweden spends 6.4 times as much on health per person as Brazil

Brazil: $1,010 (2023) · Sweden: $6,485 (2024)

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

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

Sweden has 87% more doctors per person than Brazil

Brazil: 2.4 per 1,000 (2023) · Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021)

Brazil has 33% more hospital beds per person than Sweden

Brazil: 2.5 per 1,000 (2021) · Sweden: 1.9 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Sweden is 44% higher than in Brazil

Brazil: 8.8 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023)

31% of adults in Brazil are obese, versus 19% in Sweden

Brazil: 30.9% (2024) · Sweden: 18.7% (2024)

20% of adults in Sweden smoke, versus 12% in Brazil

Brazil: 11.9% (2024) · Sweden: 20.3% (2024)

People in Sweden rate their lives 0.62 points higher than in Brazil

Brazil: 6.63 (2025) · Sweden: 7.26 (2025)

Adults in Brazil drink 19% more alcohol than in Sweden

Brazil: 10.4 litres (2023) · Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023)

Brazil has 53% more meat per person than Sweden

Brazil: 104.6 kg (2023) · Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023)

Brazil has 57 kcal more food per person per day than Sweden

Brazil: 3,423 kcal (2023) · Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023)

Workers in Brazil put in 562 more hours a year than in Sweden

Brazil: 1,994 hours (2023) · Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023)

Adults in Sweden went to school 4.3 years longer than in Brazil

Brazil: 8.4 years (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 years (2023)

Sweden welcomed 20 times as many tourists per resident as Brazil (2019)

Brazil: 0.03 (2024) · Sweden: 0.63 (2022)

Brazil has 11 more World Heritage sites than Sweden (26 against 15)

Brazil: 26 (2026) · Sweden: 15 (2026)

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, Brazil 171

Brazil: 171 (2026 edition) · Sweden: 709 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Sweden are online, versus 84% in Brazil

Brazil: 84% (2024) · Sweden: 96% (2025)

Home internet in Brazil is 18% faster than in Sweden

Brazil: 293 Mbps (2026) · Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026)

Sweden and Brazil are practically level

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

89% of people in Sweden live in cities, versus 88% in Brazil

Brazil: 88% (2025) · Sweden: 89% (2025)

Sweden has 141 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Brazil 102

Brazil: 102 (2024) · Sweden: 141 (2024)

Brazil’s railway network is 3.1 times as long as Sweden’s

Brazil: 29,850 km (2014) · Sweden: 9,714 km (2021)

Airlines from Sweden fly 4.1 times as many passengers per resident as those from Brazil

Brazil: 0.45 (2023) · Sweden: 1.85 (2023)

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 59% of Brazil

Brazil: 58.5% (2024) · Sweden: 68.6% (2024)

The average person in Sweden emits 58% more CO₂ than someone in Brazil

Brazil: 2.3 t (2024) · Sweden: 3.6 t (2024)

87% of Brazil’s electricity is renewable, versus 71% in Sweden

Brazil: 86.6% (2025) · Sweden: 71.2% (2025)

The air in Brazil carries 2.7 times as much fine dust as in Sweden

Brazil: 15.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 17 times as likely to be murdered in Brazil as in Sweden

Brazil: 19.3 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 1.1 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Brazil are 7.6 times as deadly as in Sweden

Brazil: 25.9 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023)

Brazil is on average 21.0 °C warmer than Sweden

Brazil: 25.3°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 4.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Brazil gets 2.1 times as much rain as Sweden

Brazil: 1,661 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 801 mm (2016–2025 avg)