Colombia’s coastline is 22% longer than Saudi Arabia’s

Colombia: 3,208 km (2026 edition) · Saudi Arabia: 2,640 km (2026 edition)

Colombia’s highest peak towers 2,730 m above Saudi Arabia’s

Colombia: 5,730 m (2026 edition) · Saudi Arabia: 3,000 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 82% of Saudi Arabia, versus 37% of Colombia

Colombia: 36.5% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 81.7% (2024)

Colombia has 44% more people than Saudi Arabia

Colombia: 53.4 million (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 37 million (2025)

Colombia is 2.8 times as densely populated as Saudi Arabia

Colombia: 48 per km² (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 17 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Colombia is 2.4 years older than in Saudi Arabia

Colombia: 31.6 years (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 29.2 years (2023)

Women in Saudi Arabia have 0.7 more children on average than in Colombia

Colombia: 1.63 children per woman (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 2.31 children per woman (2024)

10% of people in Colombia are 65 or older, versus 3.1% in Saudi Arabia

Colombia: 10.2% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 3.1% (2025)

Colombia hosts 2.3 times as many refugees per resident as Saudi Arabia

Colombia: 0.027 per 1,000 (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 0.012 per 1,000 (2025)

Colombia has produced 0.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Saudi Arabia none

Colombia: 0.4 (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 0 (2026)

Colombia and Saudi Arabia are practically level

Colombia: 1 (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 1 (2026)

Saudi Arabia’s economy is 2.8 times the size of Colombia’s

Colombia: $457 billion (2025) · Saudi Arabia: $1.28 trillion (2025)

Saudi Arabia produces 3.3 times as much per person as Colombia

Colombia: Int$22,640 (2025) · Saudi Arabia: Int$73,784 (2025)

Colombia: 54.4 (2024) · Saudi Arabia: no data

Colombia: 8.5% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: no data

Unemployment is 8.3% in Colombia, versus 3.0% in Saudi Arabia

Colombia: 8.3% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 3% (2025)

Saudi Arabia spends 6.5% of its GDP on the military, Colombia 3.2%

Colombia: 3.2% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 6.5% (2025)

Colombia’s central government collects 15% of GDP in tax, Saudi Arabia’s 8.1%

Colombia: 15.2% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 8.1% (2024)

Saudi Arabia’s price level (US = 100) is 1.2× Colombia’s

Colombia: 38% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 47% (2025)

Saudi Arabia spends 2.8 times as much on health per person as Colombia

Colombia: $644 (2024) · Saudi Arabia: $1,825 (2023)

A baby in Colombia is 2.2 times as likely to die before turning one as in Saudi Arabia

Colombia: 10.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 4.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Saudi Arabia has 34% more doctors per person than Colombia

Colombia: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 3.4 per 1,000 (2023)

Saudi Arabia has 42% more hospital beds per person than Colombia

Colombia: 1.7 per 1,000 (2020) · Saudi Arabia: 2.4 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Colombia is 3.1 times that in Saudi Arabia

Colombia: 6.8 per 100k (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 2.2 per 100k (2023)

39% of adults in Saudi Arabia are obese, versus 25% in Colombia

Colombia: 25.3% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 39.2% (2024)

15% of adults in Saudi Arabia smoke, versus 8.0% in Colombia

Colombia: 8% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 14.7% (2024)

People in Saudi Arabia rate their lives 0.78 points higher than in Colombia

Colombia: 6.04 (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 6.82 (2025)

Colombia: 4.9 litres (2023) · Saudi Arabia: no data

Colombia has 8% more meat per person than Saudi Arabia

Colombia: 62.6 kg (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 58.1 kg (2023)

Saudi Arabia has 534 kcal more food per person per day than Colombia

Colombia: 3,126 kcal (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 3,660 kcal (2023)

Workers in Colombia put in 346 more hours a year than in Saudi Arabia

Colombia: 2,471 hours (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 2,125 hours (2023)

Adults in Saudi Arabia went to school 2.6 years longer than in Colombia

Colombia: 9 years (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 11.6 years (2023)

Saudi Arabia welcomed 9.6 times as many tourists per resident as Colombia (2019)

Colombia: 0.09 (2022) · Saudi Arabia: 0.84 (2024)

Colombia has 1 more World Heritage site than Saudi Arabia (9 against 8)

Colombia: 9 (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 8 (2026)

Colombia has won 38 Olympic medals, Saudi Arabia 4

Colombia: 38 (2026 edition) · Saudi Arabia: 4 (2026 edition)

100% of people in Saudi Arabia are online, versus 79% in Colombia

Colombia: 79% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 100% (2024)

Home internet in Colombia is 25% faster than in Saudi Arabia

Colombia: 246 Mbps (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 196 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Saudi Arabia have electricity, versus 99% in Colombia

Colombia: 98.9% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 100% (2024)

85% of people in Saudi Arabia live in cities, versus 79% in Colombia

Colombia: 79% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 85% (2025)

Colombia has 174 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Saudi Arabia 160

Colombia: 174 (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 160 (2024)

Saudi Arabia’s railway network is 37% longer than Colombia’s

Colombia: 2,141 km (2019) · Saudi Arabia: 2,939 km (2018)

Airlines from Saudi Arabia fly 64% more passengers per resident than those from Colombia

Colombia: 0.79 (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 1.3 (2023)

Forest covers 54% of Colombia, but only 1.3% of Saudi Arabia

Colombia: 53.7% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 1.3% (2024)

The average person in Saudi Arabia emits 12 times as much CO₂ as someone in Colombia

Colombia: 1.8 t (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 20.4 t (2024)

77% of Colombia’s electricity is renewable, versus 2.2% in Saudi Arabia

Colombia: 77% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 2.2% (2024)

The air in Saudi Arabia carries 3.3 times as much fine dust as in Colombia

Colombia: 15.1 µg/m³ (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 50.4 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 27 times as likely to be murdered in Colombia as in Saudi Arabia

Colombia: 24.9 per 100k (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 0.9 per 100k (2019)

Roads in Colombia are 25% deadlier than in Saudi Arabia

Colombia: 26.7 per 100k (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 21.4 per 100k (2023)

Saudi Arabia is on average 2.4 °C warmer than Colombia

Colombia: 24.4°C (2016–2025 avg) · Saudi Arabia: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Colombia gets 51 times as much rain as Saudi Arabia

Colombia: 3,155 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Saudi Arabia: 61 mm (2016–2025 avg)