Colombia: 3,208 km (2026 edition) · Ethiopia: 0 km (2026 edition)

Colombia’s highest peak towers 1,180 m above Ethiopia’s

Colombia: 5,730 m (2026 edition) · Ethiopia: 4,550 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 37% of Colombia, versus 34% of Ethiopia

Colombia: 36.5% (2024) · Ethiopia: 34.3% (2024)

Ethiopia has 2.5 times as many people as Colombia

Colombia: 53.4 million (2025) · Ethiopia: 135 million (2025)

Ethiopia is 2.5 times as densely populated as Colombia

Colombia: 48 per km² (2025) · Ethiopia: 121 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Colombia is 13 years older than in Ethiopia

Colombia: 31.6 years (2023) · Ethiopia: 18.7 years (2023)

Women in Ethiopia have 2.3 more children on average than in Colombia

Colombia: 1.63 children per woman (2024) · Ethiopia: 3.91 children per woman (2024)

10% of people in Colombia are 65 or older, versus 3.3% in Ethiopia

Colombia: 10.2% (2025) · Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025)

Ethiopia hosts 272 times as many refugees per resident as Colombia

Colombia: 0.027 per 1,000 (2025) · Ethiopia: 7.5 per 1,000 (2025)

Colombia has produced 0.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ethiopia 0.1

Colombia: 0.4 (2026) · Ethiopia: 0.1 (2026)

Colombia and Ethiopia are practically level

Colombia: 1 (2026) · Ethiopia: 1 (2026)

Colombia’s economy is 3.6 times the size of Ethiopia’s

Colombia: $457 billion (2025) · Ethiopia: $126 billion (2025)

Colombia produces 6.3 times as much per person as Ethiopia

Colombia: Int$22,640 (2025) · Ethiopia: Int$3,622 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Colombia than in Ethiopia (Gini 23.3 points higher)

Colombia: 54.4 (2024) · Ethiopia: 31.1 (2021)

39% of people in Ethiopia live on less than $3 a day, versus 8.5% in Colombia

Colombia: 8.5% (2024) · Ethiopia: 38.6% (2021)

Unemployment is 8.3% in Colombia, versus 3.3% in Ethiopia

Colombia: 8.3% (2025) · Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025)

Colombia spends 3.2% of its GDP on the military, Ethiopia 0.5%

Colombia: 3.2% (2025) · Ethiopia: 0.5% (2025)

Colombia’s central government collects 15% of GDP in tax, Ethiopia’s 3.4%

Colombia: 15.2% (2024) · Ethiopia: 3.4% (2024)

Colombia’s price level (US = 100) is 1.5× Ethiopia’s

Colombia: 38% (2025) · Ethiopia: 26% (2025)

Colombia spends 19 times as much on health per person as Ethiopia

Colombia: $644 (2024) · Ethiopia: $35 (2023)

A baby in Ethiopia is 3.3 times as likely to die before turning one as in Colombia

Colombia: 10.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Ethiopia: 34.5 per 1,000 (2024)

Colombia has 18 times as many doctors per person as Ethiopia

Colombia: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023) · Ethiopia: 0.1 per 1,000 (2023)

Colombia has 5.2 times as many hospital beds per person as Ethiopia

Colombia: 1.7 per 1,000 (2020) · Ethiopia: 0.3 per 1,000 (2016)

The suicide rate in Ethiopia is 2.1 times that in Colombia

Colombia: 6.8 per 100k (2023) · Ethiopia: 14.4 per 100k (2023)

25% of adults in Colombia are obese, versus 2.5% in Ethiopia

Colombia: 25.3% (2024) · Ethiopia: 2.5% (2024)

8.0% of adults in Colombia smoke, versus 5.2% in Ethiopia

Colombia: 8% (2024) · Ethiopia: 5.2% (2024)

People in Colombia rate their lives 2.06 points higher than in Ethiopia

Colombia: 6.04 (2025) · Ethiopia: 3.99 (2025)

Adults in Colombia drink 2.1 times as much alcohol as in Ethiopia

Colombia: 4.9 litres (2023) · Ethiopia: 2.3 litres (2023)

Colombia has 9.1 times as much meat per person as Ethiopia

Colombia: 62.6 kg (2023) · Ethiopia: 6.9 kg (2023)

Colombia has 568 kcal more food per person per day than Ethiopia

Colombia: 3,126 kcal (2023) · Ethiopia: 2,558 kcal (2023)

Workers in Colombia put in 871 more hours a year than in Ethiopia

Colombia: 2,471 hours (2023) · Ethiopia: 1,599 hours (2023)

Adults in Colombia went to school 6.6 years longer than in Ethiopia

Colombia: 9 years (2023) · Ethiopia: 2.4 years (2023)

Colombia welcomed 22 times as many tourists per resident as Ethiopia (2019)

Colombia: 0.09 (2022) · Ethiopia: 0.0041 (2024)

Ethiopia has 3 more World Heritage sites than Colombia (12 against 9)

Colombia: 9 (2026) · Ethiopia: 12 (2026)

Ethiopia has won 62 Olympic medals, Colombia 38

Colombia: 38 (2026 edition) · Ethiopia: 62 (2026 edition)

79% of people in Colombia are online, versus 22% in Ethiopia

Colombia: 79% (2024) · Ethiopia: 22% (2024)

Home internet in Colombia is 11 times as fast as in Ethiopia

Colombia: 246 Mbps (2026) · Ethiopia: 22 Mbps (2026)

99% of people in Colombia have electricity, versus 57% in Ethiopia

Colombia: 98.9% (2024) · Ethiopia: 56.6% (2024)

79% of people in Colombia live in cities, versus 24% in Ethiopia

Colombia: 79% (2025) · Ethiopia: 24% (2025)

Colombia has 174 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ethiopia 65

Colombia: 174 (2024) · Ethiopia: 65 (2024)

Colombia’s railway network is 2.8 times as long as Ethiopia’s

Colombia: 2,141 km (2019) · Ethiopia: 754 km (2018)

Airlines from Colombia fly 7 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ethiopia

Colombia: 0.79 (2023) · Ethiopia: 0.11 (2023)

Forest covers 54% of Colombia, but only 24% of Ethiopia

Colombia: 53.7% (2024) · Ethiopia: 23.8% (2024)

The average person in Colombia emits 13 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ethiopia

Colombia: 1.8 t (2024) · Ethiopia: 0.1 t (2024)

100% of Ethiopia’s electricity is renewable, versus 77% in Colombia

Colombia: 77% (2025) · Ethiopia: 100% (2025)

The air in Ethiopia carries 34% more fine dust than in Colombia

Colombia: 15.1 µg/m³ (2024) · Ethiopia: 20.2 µg/m³ (2024)

Colombia: 24.9 per 100k (2023) · Ethiopia: no data

Roads in Colombia are 12% deadlier than in Ethiopia

Colombia: 26.7 per 100k (2023) · Ethiopia: 23.9 per 100k (2023)

Colombia is on average 0.5 °C warmer than Ethiopia

Colombia: 24.4°C (2016–2025 avg) · Ethiopia: 23.9°C (2016–2025 avg)

Colombia gets 3.3 times as much rain as Ethiopia

Colombia: 3,155 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Ethiopia: 962 mm (2016–2025 avg)