The Philippines’ coastline is 11 times as long as Colombia’s

Colombia: 3,208 km (2026 edition) · Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition)

Colombia’s highest peak towers 2,776 m above the Philippines’

Colombia: 5,730 m (2026 edition) · Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 43% of the Philippines, versus 37% of Colombia

Colombia: 36.5% (2024) · Philippines: 42.7% (2024)

The Philippines has 2.2 times as many people as Colombia

Colombia: 53.4 million (2025) · Philippines: 117 million (2025)

The Philippines is 8.1 times as densely populated as Colombia

Colombia: 48 per km² (2025) · Philippines: 392 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Colombia is 6.3 years older than in the Philippines

Colombia: 31.6 years (2023) · Philippines: 25.3 years (2023)

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

Colombia: 1.63 children per woman (2024) · Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024)

10% of people in Colombia are 65 or older, versus 5.7% in the Philippines

Colombia: 10.2% (2025) · Philippines: 5.7% (2025)

Colombia hosts 3.1 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Colombia: 0.027 per 1,000 (2025) · Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025)

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

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

The Philippines has 2 official languages, Colombia 1

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

The Philippines’ economy is 6% larger than Colombia’s

Colombia: $457 billion (2025) · Philippines: $487 billion (2025)

Colombia produces 80% more per person than the Philippines

Colombia: Int$22,640 (2025) · Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Colombia than in the Philippines (Gini 15.1 points higher)

Colombia: 54.4 (2024) · Philippines: 39.3 (2023)

8.5% of people in Colombia live on less than $3 a day, versus 5.3% in the Philippines

Colombia: 8.5% (2024) · Philippines: 5.3% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.3% in Colombia, versus 2.2% in the Philippines

Colombia: 8.3% (2025) · Philippines: 2.2% (2025)

Colombia spends 3.2% of its GDP on the military, the Philippines 1.3%

Colombia: 3.2% (2025) · Philippines: 1.3% (2025)

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

Colombia: 15.2% (2024) · Philippines: 14.4% (2024)

Colombia’s price level (US = 100) is 1.1× the Philippines’

Colombia: 38% (2025) · Philippines: 33% (2025)

Colombia spends 3.3 times as much on health per person as the Philippines

Colombia: $644 (2024) · Philippines: $194 (2023)

A baby in the Philippines is 2.1 times as likely to die before turning one as in Colombia

Colombia: 10.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Colombia has 3.2 times as many doctors per person as the Philippines

Colombia: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023) · Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021)

Colombia has 75% more hospital beds per person than the Philippines

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

The suicide rate in Colombia is 2.2 times that in the Philippines

Colombia: 6.8 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023)

25% of adults in Colombia are obese, versus 9.7% in the Philippines

Colombia: 25.3% (2024) · Philippines: 9.7% (2024)

20% of adults in the Philippines smoke, versus 8.0% in Colombia

Colombia: 8% (2024) · Philippines: 19.9% (2024)

People in the Philippines rate their lives 0.17 points higher than in Colombia

Colombia: 6.04 (2025) · Philippines: 6.21 (2025)

Adults in the Philippines drink 25% more alcohol than in Colombia

Colombia: 4.9 litres (2023) · Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023)

Colombia has 86% more meat per person than the Philippines

Colombia: 62.6 kg (2023) · Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023)

Colombia has 143 kcal more food per person per day than the Philippines

Colombia: 3,126 kcal (2023) · Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023)

Workers in Colombia put in 375 more hours a year than in the Philippines

Colombia: 2,471 hours (2023) · Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023)

Adults in the Philippines went to school 0.95 years longer than in Colombia

Colombia: 9 years (2023) · Philippines: 10 years (2023)

Colombia welcomed 3.8 times as many tourists per resident as the Philippines (2019)

Colombia: 0.09 (2022) · Philippines: 0.02 (2022)

Colombia has 3 more World Heritage sites than the Philippines (9 against 6)

Colombia: 9 (2026) · Philippines: 6 (2026)

Colombia has won 38 Olympic medals, the Philippines 18

Colombia: 38 (2026 edition) · Philippines: 18 (2026 edition)

79% of people in Colombia are online, versus 67% in the Philippines

Colombia: 79% (2024) · Philippines: 67% (2024)

Home internet in Colombia is 48% faster than in the Philippines

Colombia: 246 Mbps (2026) · Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026)

99% of people in Colombia have electricity, versus 95% in the Philippines

Colombia: 98.9% (2024) · Philippines: 94.8% (2024)

79% of people in Colombia live in cities, versus 56% in the Philippines

Colombia: 79% (2025) · Philippines: 56% (2025)

Colombia has 174 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, the Philippines 115

Colombia: 174 (2024) · Philippines: 115 (2024)

Colombia’s railway network is 4.2 times as long as the Philippines’

Colombia: 2,141 km (2019) · Philippines: 509 km (2016)

Airlines from Colombia fly 2.2 times as many passengers per resident as those from the Philippines

Colombia: 0.79 (2023) · Philippines: 0.36 (2023)

Forest covers 54% of Colombia, but only 25% of the Philippines

Colombia: 53.7% (2024) · Philippines: 24.8% (2024)

The average person in Colombia emits 16% more CO₂ than someone in the Philippines

Colombia: 1.8 t (2024) · Philippines: 1.5 t (2024)

77% of Colombia’s electricity is renewable, versus 23% in the Philippines

Colombia: 77% (2025) · Philippines: 23.3% (2025)

The air in the Philippines carries 53% more fine dust than in Colombia

Colombia: 15.1 µg/m³ (2024) · Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 5.7 times as likely to be murdered in Colombia as in the Philippines

Colombia: 24.9 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 4.3 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Colombia are 93% deadlier than in the Philippines

Colombia: 26.7 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 2.0 °C warmer than Colombia

Colombia: 24.4°C (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

Colombia gets 5% more rain than the Philippines

Colombia: 3,155 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg)