Denmark’s coastline is 5.5 times as long as Sri Lanka’s

Denmark: 7,314 km (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 1,340 km (2026 edition)

Sri Lanka’s highest peak towers 2,353 m above Denmark’s

Denmark: 171 m (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2,524 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 65% of Denmark, versus 49% of Sri Lanka

Denmark: 65.1% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 48.8% (2024)

Sri Lanka has 3.6 times as many people as Denmark

Denmark: 6.01 million (2025) · Sri Lanka: 21.8 million (2025)

Sri Lanka is 2.3 times as densely populated as Denmark

Denmark: 150 per km² (2025) · Sri Lanka: 352 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Denmark is 8.4 years older than in Sri Lanka

Denmark: 41.2 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 32.8 years (2023)

Women in Sri Lanka have 0.5 more children on average than in Denmark

Denmark: 1.47 children per woman (2024) · Sri Lanka: 1.95 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Denmark are 65 or older, versus 12% in Sri Lanka

Denmark: 21.1% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 12.5% (2025)

Denmark hosts 1,615 times as many refugees per resident as Sri Lanka

Denmark: 15.8 per 1,000 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 0.0098 per 1,000 (2025)

Denmark has produced 20.0 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Sri Lanka none

Denmark: 20 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 0 (2026)

Sri Lanka has 2 official languages, Denmark 1

Denmark: 1 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026)

Denmark’s economy is 4.3 times the size of Sri Lanka’s

Denmark: $463 billion (2025) · Sri Lanka: $109 billion (2025)

Denmark produces 4.9 times as much per person as Sri Lanka

Denmark: Int$83,218 (2025) · Sri Lanka: Int$17,065 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Sri Lanka than in Denmark (Gini 7.8 points higher)

Denmark: 29.9 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 37.7 (2019)

2.7% of people in Sri Lanka live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.4% in Denmark

Denmark: 0.4% (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2.7% (2019)

Unemployment is 5.5% in Denmark, versus 4.0% in Sri Lanka

Denmark: 5.5% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4% (2025)

Denmark spends 3.3% of its GDP on the military, Sri Lanka 1.3%

Denmark: 3.3% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 1.3% (2025)

Denmark’s central government collects 33% of GDP in tax, Sri Lanka’s 9.9%

Denmark: 33.4% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 9.9% (2023)

Denmark’s price level (US = 100) is 3.2× Sri Lanka’s

Denmark: 92% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 29% (2025)

Denmark spends 50 times as much on health per person as Sri Lanka

Denmark: $6,745 (2024) · Sri Lanka: $134 (2023)

A baby in Sri Lanka is 49% more likely to die before turning one than in Denmark

Denmark: 3.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 5.2 per 1,000 (2024)

Denmark has 4 times as many doctors per person as Sri Lanka

Denmark: 4.5 per 1,000 (2021) · Sri Lanka: 1.1 per 1,000 (2023)

Sri Lanka has 62% more hospital beds per person than Denmark

Denmark: 2.4 per 1,000 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 3.9 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Sri Lanka is 63% higher than in Denmark

Denmark: 8.6 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 14 per 100k (2023)

15% of adults in Denmark are obese, versus 11% in Sri Lanka

Denmark: 15.2% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 11.2% (2024)

21% of adults in Sri Lanka smoke, versus 16% in Denmark

Denmark: 15.7% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7% (2024)

People in Denmark rate their lives 3.53 points higher than in Sri Lanka

Denmark: 7.54 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4.01 (2025)

Adults in Denmark drink 3.8 times as much alcohol as in Sri Lanka

Denmark: 9.5 litres (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2.5 litres (2023)

Denmark has 8.8 times as much meat per person as Sri Lanka

Denmark: 101.3 kg (2023) · Sri Lanka: 11.6 kg (2023)

Denmark has 1,059 kcal more food per person per day than Sri Lanka

Denmark: 3,734 kcal (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,675 kcal (2023)

Workers in Sri Lanka put in 673 more hours a year than in Denmark

Denmark: 1,380 hours (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,053 hours (2023)

Adults in Denmark went to school 2.3 years longer than in Sri Lanka

Denmark: 13 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 10.8 years (2023)

Denmark welcomed 74 times as many tourists per resident as Sri Lanka (2019)

Denmark: 2.4 (2022) · Sri Lanka: 0.03 (2022)

Denmark has 5 more World Heritage sites than Sri Lanka (13 against 8)

Denmark: 13 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 8 (2026)

Denmark has won 216 Olympic medals, Sri Lanka 2

Denmark: 216 (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026 edition)

100% of people in Denmark are online, versus 55% in Sri Lanka

Denmark: 100% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 55% (2024)

Home internet in Denmark is 5 times as fast as in Sri Lanka

Denmark: 314 Mbps (2026) · Sri Lanka: 63 Mbps (2026)

Denmark and Sri Lanka are practically level

Denmark: 100% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 100% (2024)

89% of people in Denmark live in cities, versus 20% in Sri Lanka

Denmark: 89% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 20% (2025)

Sri Lanka has 133 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Denmark 127

Denmark: 127 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 133 (2024)

Denmark’s railway network is 72% longer than Sri Lanka’s

Denmark: 2,682 km (2020) · Sri Lanka: 1,562 km (2019)

Denmark: no data · Sri Lanka: 0.18 (2023)

Forest covers 34% of Sri Lanka, but only 16% of Denmark

Denmark: 16% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 34.4% (2024)

The average person in Denmark emits 5.3 times as much CO₂ as someone in Sri Lanka

Denmark: 4.7 t (2024) · Sri Lanka: 0.9 t (2024)

91% of Denmark’s electricity is renewable, versus 62% in Sri Lanka

Denmark: 91.2% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 61.6% (2025)

The air in Sri Lanka carries 2.3 times as much fine dust as in Denmark

Denmark: 9 µg/m³ (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 3.9 times as likely to be murdered in Sri Lanka as in Denmark

Denmark: 0.8 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 3.3 per 100k (2019)

Roads in Sri Lanka are 5 times as deadly as in Denmark

Denmark: 4.2 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 21.1 per 100k (2023)

Sri Lanka is on average 17.3 °C warmer than Denmark

Denmark: 9.6°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Sri Lanka gets 2.2 times as much rain as Denmark

Denmark: 845 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 1,839 mm (2016–2025 avg)