Egypt’s coastline is 66 times as long as the DR Congo’s

DR Congo: 37 km (2026 edition) · Egypt: 2,450 km (2026 edition)

The DR Congo’s highest peak towers 2,481 m above Egypt’s

DR Congo: 5,110 m (2026 edition) · Egypt: 2,629 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 16% of the DR Congo, versus 4.2% of Egypt

DR Congo: 16.2% (2024) · Egypt: 4.2% (2024)

Egypt has 5% more people than the DR Congo

DR Congo: 113 million (2025) · Egypt: 118 million (2025)

Egypt is 2.4 times as densely populated as the DR Congo

DR Congo: 50 per km² (2025) · Egypt: 119 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Egypt is 8.3 years older than in the DR Congo

DR Congo: 15.8 years (2023) · Egypt: 24 years (2023)

Women in the DR Congo have 3.2 more children on average than in Egypt

DR Congo: 5.98 children per woman (2024) · Egypt: 2.74 children per woman (2024)

5.3% of people in Egypt are 65 or older, versus 3.1% in the DR Congo

DR Congo: 3.1% (2025) · Egypt: 5.3% (2025)

The DR Congo hosts 2.4 times as many refugees per resident as Egypt

DR Congo: 4.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Egypt: 1.9 per 1,000 (2025)

Egypt has produced 0.5 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, the DR Congo 0.1

DR Congo: 0.1 (2026) · Egypt: 0.5 (2026)

The DR Congo has 5 official languages, Egypt 1

DR Congo: 5 (2026) · Egypt: 1 (2026)

Egypt’s economy is 4 times the size of the DR Congo’s

DR Congo: $91 billion (2025) · Egypt: $365 billion (2025)

Egypt produces 11 times as much per person as the DR Congo

DR Congo: Int$1,920 (2025) · Egypt: Int$20,204 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the DR Congo than in Egypt (Gini 16.2 points higher)

DR Congo: 44.7 (2020) · Egypt: 28.5 (2021)

85% of people in the DR Congo live on less than $3 a day, versus 1.4% in Egypt

DR Congo: 85.3% (2020) · Egypt: 1.4% (2021)

Unemployment is 6.8% in Egypt, versus 4.4% in the DR Congo

DR Congo: 4.4% (2025) · Egypt: 6.8% (2025)

The DR Congo spends 1.4% of its GDP on the military, Egypt 0.6%

DR Congo: 1.4% (2025) · Egypt: 0.6% (2025)

Egypt’s central government collects 13% of GDP in tax, the DR Congo’s 11%

DR Congo: 10.7% (2022) · Egypt: 12.5% (2015)

The DR Congo’s price level (US = 100) is 2.8× Egypt’s

DR Congo: 42% (2025) · Egypt: 15% (2025)

Egypt spends 6 times as much on health per person as the DR Congo

DR Congo: $23 (2023) · Egypt: $141 (2023)

A baby in the DR Congo is 2.7 times as likely to die before turning one as in Egypt

DR Congo: 56.4 per 1,000 (2024) · Egypt: 20.8 per 1,000 (2024)

Egypt has 3.2 times as many doctors per person as the DR Congo

DR Congo: 0.2 per 1,000 (2022) · Egypt: 0.7 per 1,000 (2020)

DR Congo: no data · Egypt: 1.1 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in the DR Congo is 23 times that in Egypt

DR Congo: 18 per 100k (2023) · Egypt: 0.8 per 100k (2023)

43% of adults in Egypt are obese, versus 5.9% in the DR Congo

DR Congo: 5.9% (2024) · Egypt: 42.8% (2024)

25% of adults in Egypt smoke, versus 12% in the DR Congo

DR Congo: 12.3% (2024) · Egypt: 25% (2024)

People in Egypt rate their lives 0.10 points higher than in the DR Congo

DR Congo: 3.76 (2025) · Egypt: 3.86 (2025)

Adults in the DR Congo drink 16 times as much alcohol as in Egypt

DR Congo: 1.6 litres (2023) · Egypt: 0.1 litres (2023)

Egypt has 7.9 times as much meat per person as the DR Congo

DR Congo: 3.5 kg (2023) · Egypt: 27.6 kg (2023)

Egypt has 1,079 kcal more food per person per day than the DR Congo

DR Congo: 2,015 kcal (2023) · Egypt: 3,094 kcal (2023)

Workers in Egypt put in 528 more hours a year than in the DR Congo

DR Congo: 1,841 hours (2023) · Egypt: 2,369 hours (2023)

Adults in Egypt went to school 2.8 years longer than in the DR Congo

DR Congo: 7.4 years (2023) · Egypt: 10.1 years (2023)

Egypt welcomed 20 times as many tourists per resident as the DR Congo (2019)

DR Congo: 0.01 (2019) · Egypt: 0.1 (2022)

Egypt has 2 more World Heritage sites than the DR Congo (7 against 5)

DR Congo: 5 (2026) · Egypt: 7 (2026)

Egypt has won 41 Olympic medals, the DR Congo none

DR Congo: 0 (2026 edition) · Egypt: 41 (2026 edition)

75% of people in Egypt are online, versus 20% in the DR Congo

DR Congo: 20% (2024) · Egypt: 75% (2024)

Home internet in Egypt is 7% faster than in the DR Congo

DR Congo: 75 Mbps (2026) · Egypt: 80 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Egypt have electricity, versus 23% in the DR Congo

DR Congo: 22.5% (2024) · Egypt: 100% (2024)

45% of people in the DR Congo live in cities, versus 43% in Egypt

DR Congo: 45% (2025) · Egypt: 43% (2025)

Egypt has 97 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, the DR Congo 59

DR Congo: 59 (2024) · Egypt: 97 (2024)

Egypt’s railway network is 42% longer than the DR Congo’s

DR Congo: 3,641 km (2021) · Egypt: 5,153 km (2016)

Airlines from Egypt fly 14 times as many passengers per resident as those from the DR Congo

DR Congo: 0.01 (2023) · Egypt: 0.14 (2023)

Forest covers 62% of the DR Congo, but only 0.0% of Egypt

DR Congo: 61.5% (2024) · Egypt: 0% (2024)

The average person in Egypt emits 41 times as much CO₂ as someone in the DR Congo

DR Congo: 0.1 t (2024) · Egypt: 2.2 t (2024)

100% of the DR Congo’s electricity is renewable, versus 13% in Egypt

DR Congo: 100% (2024) · Egypt: 13% (2025)

Egypt and the DR Congo are nearly identical here

DR Congo: 41.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Egypt: 41.3 µg/m³ (2024)

DR Congo: no data · Egypt: 1.3 per 100k (2017)

Roads in the DR Congo are 91% deadlier than in Egypt

DR Congo: 23.7 per 100k (2023) · Egypt: 12.4 per 100k (2023)

The DR Congo is on average 1.3 °C warmer than Egypt

DR Congo: 24.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · Egypt: 23.5°C (2016–2025 avg)

The DR Congo gets 121 times as much rain as Egypt

DR Congo: 1,469 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Egypt: 12 mm (2016–2025 avg)