Colombia’s coastline is 31% longer than Egypt’s

Colombia: 3,208 km (2026 edition) · Egypt: 2,450 km (2026 edition)

Colombia’s highest peak towers 3,101 m above Egypt’s

Colombia: 5,730 m (2026 edition) · Egypt: 2,629 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 37% of Colombia, versus 4.2% of Egypt

Colombia: 36.5% (2024) · Egypt: 4.2% (2024)

Egypt has 2.2 times as many people as Colombia

Colombia: 53.4 million (2025) · Egypt: 118 million (2025)

Egypt is 2.5 times as densely populated as Colombia

Colombia: 48 per km² (2025) · Egypt: 119 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Colombia is 7.6 years older than in Egypt

Colombia: 31.6 years (2023) · Egypt: 24 years (2023)

Women in Egypt have 1.1 more children on average than in Colombia

Colombia: 1.63 children per woman (2024) · Egypt: 2.74 children per woman (2024)

10% of people in Colombia are 65 or older, versus 5.3% in Egypt

Colombia: 10.2% (2025) · Egypt: 5.3% (2025)

Egypt hosts 68 times as many refugees per resident as Colombia

Colombia: 0.027 per 1,000 (2025) · Egypt: 1.9 per 1,000 (2025)

Egypt has produced 0.5 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Colombia 0.4

Colombia: 0.4 (2026) · Egypt: 0.5 (2026)

Colombia and Egypt are practically level

Colombia: 1 (2026) · Egypt: 1 (2026)

Colombia’s economy is 25% larger than Egypt’s

Colombia: $457 billion (2025) · Egypt: $365 billion (2025)

Colombia produces 12% more per person than Egypt

Colombia: Int$22,640 (2025) · Egypt: Int$20,204 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Colombia than in Egypt (Gini 25.9 points higher)

Colombia: 54.4 (2024) · Egypt: 28.5 (2021)

8.5% of people in Colombia live on less than $3 a day, versus 1.4% in Egypt

Colombia: 8.5% (2024) · Egypt: 1.4% (2021)

Unemployment is 8.3% in Colombia, versus 6.8% in Egypt

Colombia: 8.3% (2025) · Egypt: 6.8% (2025)

Colombia spends 3.2% of its GDP on the military, Egypt 0.6%

Colombia: 3.2% (2025) · Egypt: 0.6% (2025)

Colombia’s central government collects 15% of GDP in tax, Egypt’s 13%

Colombia: 15.2% (2024) · Egypt: 12.5% (2015)

Colombia’s price level (US = 100) is 2.5× Egypt’s

Colombia: 38% (2025) · Egypt: 15% (2025)

Colombia spends 4.6 times as much on health per person as Egypt

Colombia: $644 (2024) · Egypt: $141 (2023)

A baby in Egypt is 2 times as likely to die before turning one as in Colombia

Colombia: 10.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Egypt: 20.8 per 1,000 (2024)

Colombia has 3.8 times as many doctors per person as Egypt

Colombia: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023) · Egypt: 0.7 per 1,000 (2020)

Colombia has 60% more hospital beds per person than Egypt

Colombia: 1.7 per 1,000 (2020) · Egypt: 1.1 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in Colombia is 8.5 times that in Egypt

Colombia: 6.8 per 100k (2023) · Egypt: 0.8 per 100k (2023)

43% of adults in Egypt are obese, versus 25% in Colombia

Colombia: 25.3% (2024) · Egypt: 42.8% (2024)

25% of adults in Egypt smoke, versus 8.0% in Colombia

Colombia: 8% (2024) · Egypt: 25% (2024)

People in Colombia rate their lives 2.18 points higher than in Egypt

Colombia: 6.04 (2025) · Egypt: 3.86 (2025)

Adults in Colombia drink 47 times as much alcohol as in Egypt

Colombia: 4.9 litres (2023) · Egypt: 0.1 litres (2023)

Colombia has 2.3 times as much meat per person as Egypt

Colombia: 62.6 kg (2023) · Egypt: 27.6 kg (2023)

Colombia has 32 kcal more food per person per day than Egypt

Colombia: 3,126 kcal (2023) · Egypt: 3,094 kcal (2023)

Workers in Colombia put in 102 more hours a year than in Egypt

Colombia: 2,471 hours (2023) · Egypt: 2,369 hours (2023)

Adults in Egypt went to school 1.1 years longer than in Colombia

Colombia: 9 years (2023) · Egypt: 10.1 years (2023)

Egypt welcomed 18% more tourists per resident than Colombia (2019)

Colombia: 0.09 (2022) · Egypt: 0.1 (2022)

Colombia has 2 more World Heritage sites than Egypt (9 against 7)

Colombia: 9 (2026) · Egypt: 7 (2026)

Egypt has won 41 Olympic medals, Colombia 38

Colombia: 38 (2026 edition) · Egypt: 41 (2026 edition)

79% of people in Colombia are online, versus 75% in Egypt

Colombia: 79% (2024) · Egypt: 75% (2024)

Home internet in Colombia is 3.1 times as fast as in Egypt

Colombia: 246 Mbps (2026) · Egypt: 80 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Egypt have electricity, versus 99% in Colombia

Colombia: 98.9% (2024) · Egypt: 100% (2024)

79% of people in Colombia live in cities, versus 43% in Egypt

Colombia: 79% (2025) · Egypt: 43% (2025)

Colombia has 174 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Egypt 97

Colombia: 174 (2024) · Egypt: 97 (2024)

Egypt’s railway network is 2.4 times as long as Colombia’s

Colombia: 2,141 km (2019) · Egypt: 5,153 km (2016)

Airlines from Colombia fly 5.6 times as many passengers per resident as those from Egypt

Colombia: 0.79 (2023) · Egypt: 0.14 (2023)

Forest covers 54% of Colombia, but only 0.0% of Egypt

Colombia: 53.7% (2024) · Egypt: 0% (2024)

The average person in Egypt emits 27% more CO₂ than someone in Colombia

Colombia: 1.8 t (2024) · Egypt: 2.2 t (2024)

77% of Colombia’s electricity is renewable, versus 13% in Egypt

Colombia: 77% (2025) · Egypt: 13% (2025)

The air in Egypt carries 2.7 times as much fine dust as in Colombia

Colombia: 15.1 µg/m³ (2024) · Egypt: 41.3 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 19 times as likely to be murdered in Colombia as in Egypt

Colombia: 24.9 per 100k (2023) · Egypt: 1.3 per 100k (2017)

Roads in Colombia are 2.2 times as deadly as in Egypt

Colombia: 26.7 per 100k (2023) · Egypt: 12.4 per 100k (2023)

Colombia is on average 0.9 °C warmer than Egypt

Colombia: 24.4°C (2016–2025 avg) · Egypt: 23.5°C (2016–2025 avg)

Colombia gets 259 times as much rain as Egypt

Colombia: 3,155 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Egypt: 12 mm (2016–2025 avg)