Sweden and Colombia are nearly identical here

Colombia: 3,208 km (2026 edition) · Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition)

Colombia’s highest peak towers 3,630 m above Sweden’s

Colombia: 5,730 m (2026 edition) · Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 37% of Colombia, versus 7.3% of Sweden

Colombia: 36.5% (2024) · Sweden: 7.3% (2024)

Colombia has 5 times as many people as Sweden

Colombia: 53.4 million (2025) · Sweden: 10.6 million (2025)

Colombia is 85% more densely populated than Sweden

Colombia: 48 per km² (2025) · Sweden: 26 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sweden is 8.3 years older than in Colombia

Colombia: 31.6 years (2023) · Sweden: 39.9 years (2023)

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

Colombia: 1.63 children per woman (2024) · Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Sweden are 65 or older, versus 10% in Colombia

Colombia: 10.2% (2025) · Sweden: 20.9% (2025)

Sweden hosts 496 times as many refugees per resident as Colombia

Colombia: 0.027 per 1,000 (2025) · Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Sweden has produced 28.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Colombia 0.4

Colombia: 0.4 (2026) · Sweden: 28.3 (2026)

Colombia and Sweden are practically level

Colombia: 1 (2026) · Sweden: 1 (2026)

Sweden’s economy is 46% larger than Colombia’s

Colombia: $457 billion (2025) · Sweden: $669 billion (2025)

Sweden produces 3.2 times as much per person as Colombia

Colombia: Int$22,640 (2025) · Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Colombia than in Sweden (Gini 25.1 points higher)

Colombia: 54.4 (2024) · Sweden: 29.3 (2023)

8.5% of people in Colombia live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.8% in Sweden

Colombia: 8.5% (2024) · Sweden: 0.8% (2023)

Sweden and Colombia are practically level

Colombia: 8.3% (2025) · Sweden: 8.7% (2025)

Colombia spends 3.2% of its GDP on the military, Sweden 2.5%

Colombia: 3.2% (2025) · Sweden: 2.5% (2025)

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

Colombia: 15.2% (2024) · Sweden: 27.2% (2024)

Sweden’s price level (US = 100) is 2.3× Colombia’s

Colombia: 38% (2025) · Sweden: 87% (2025)

Sweden spends 10 times as much on health per person as Colombia

Colombia: $644 (2024) · Sweden: $6,485 (2024)

A baby in Colombia is 5.3 times as likely to die before turning one as in Sweden

Colombia: 10.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Sweden: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Sweden has 74% more doctors per person than Colombia

Colombia: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023) · Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021)

Sweden has 12% more hospital beds per person than Colombia

Colombia: 1.7 per 1,000 (2020) · Sweden: 1.9 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Sweden is 87% higher than in Colombia

Colombia: 6.8 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023)

25% of adults in Colombia are obese, versus 19% in Sweden

Colombia: 25.3% (2024) · Sweden: 18.7% (2024)

20% of adults in Sweden smoke, versus 8.0% in Colombia

Colombia: 8% (2024) · Sweden: 20.3% (2024)

People in Sweden rate their lives 1.21 points higher than in Colombia

Colombia: 6.04 (2025) · Sweden: 7.26 (2025)

Adults in Sweden drink 78% more alcohol than in Colombia

Colombia: 4.9 litres (2023) · Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023)

Sweden has 9% more meat per person than Colombia

Colombia: 62.6 kg (2023) · Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023)

Sweden has 240 kcal more food per person per day than Colombia

Colombia: 3,126 kcal (2023) · Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023)

Workers in Colombia put in 1,039 more hours a year than in Sweden

Colombia: 2,471 hours (2023) · Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023)

Adults in Sweden went to school 3.7 years longer than in Colombia

Colombia: 9 years (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 years (2023)

Sweden welcomed 7.2 times as many tourists per resident as Colombia (2019)

Colombia: 0.09 (2022) · Sweden: 0.63 (2022)

Sweden has 6 more World Heritage sites than Colombia (15 against 9)

Colombia: 9 (2026) · Sweden: 15 (2026)

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, Colombia 38

Colombia: 38 (2026 edition) · Sweden: 709 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Sweden are online, versus 79% in Colombia

Colombia: 79% (2024) · Sweden: 96% (2025)

Sweden and Colombia are nearly identical here

Colombia: 246 Mbps (2026) · Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026)

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

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

89% of people in Sweden live in cities, versus 79% in Colombia

Colombia: 79% (2025) · Sweden: 89% (2025)

Colombia has 174 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Sweden 141

Colombia: 174 (2024) · Sweden: 141 (2024)

Sweden’s railway network is 4.5 times as long as Colombia’s

Colombia: 2,141 km (2019) · Sweden: 9,714 km (2021)

Airlines from Sweden fly 2.3 times as many passengers per resident as those from Colombia

Colombia: 0.79 (2023) · Sweden: 1.85 (2023)

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 54% of Colombia

Colombia: 53.7% (2024) · Sweden: 68.6% (2024)

The average person in Sweden emits 2 times as much CO₂ as someone in Colombia

Colombia: 1.8 t (2024) · Sweden: 3.6 t (2024)

77% of Colombia’s electricity is renewable, versus 71% in Sweden

Colombia: 77% (2025) · Sweden: 71.2% (2025)

The air in Colombia carries 2.6 times as much fine dust as in Sweden

Colombia: 15.1 µg/m³ (2024) · Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 22 times as likely to be murdered in Colombia as in Sweden

Colombia: 24.9 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 1.1 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Colombia are 7.9 times as deadly as in Sweden

Colombia: 26.7 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023)

Colombia is on average 20.1 °C warmer than Sweden

Colombia: 24.4°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 4.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Colombia gets 3.9 times as much rain as Sweden

Colombia: 3,155 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 801 mm (2016–2025 avg)