Egypt: 2,450 km (2026 edition) · Ethiopia: 0 km (2026 edition)

Ethiopia’s highest peak towers 1,921 m above Egypt’s

Egypt: 2,629 m (2026 edition) · Ethiopia: 4,550 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 34% of Ethiopia, versus 4.2% of Egypt

Egypt: 4.2% (2024) · Ethiopia: 34.3% (2024)

Ethiopia has 14% more people than Egypt

Egypt: 118 million (2025) · Ethiopia: 135 million (2025)

Ethiopia is 2% more densely populated than Egypt

Egypt: 119 per km² (2025) · Ethiopia: 121 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Egypt is 5.3 years older than in Ethiopia

Egypt: 24 years (2023) · Ethiopia: 18.7 years (2023)

Women in Ethiopia have 1.2 more children on average than in Egypt

Egypt: 2.74 children per woman (2024) · Ethiopia: 3.91 children per woman (2024)

5.3% of people in Egypt are 65 or older, versus 3.3% in Ethiopia

Egypt: 5.3% (2025) · Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025)

Ethiopia hosts 4 times as many refugees per resident as Egypt

Egypt: 1.9 per 1,000 (2025) · Ethiopia: 7.5 per 1,000 (2025)

Egypt has produced 0.5 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ethiopia 0.1

Egypt: 0.5 (2026) · Ethiopia: 0.1 (2026)

Egypt and Ethiopia are practically level

Egypt: 1 (2026) · Ethiopia: 1 (2026)

Egypt’s economy is 2.9 times the size of Ethiopia’s

Egypt: $365 billion (2025) · Ethiopia: $126 billion (2025)

Egypt produces 5.6 times as much per person as Ethiopia

Egypt: Int$20,204 (2025) · Ethiopia: Int$3,622 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Ethiopia than in Egypt (Gini 2.6 points higher)

Egypt: 28.5 (2021) · Ethiopia: 31.1 (2021)

39% of people in Ethiopia live on less than $3 a day, versus 1.4% in Egypt

Egypt: 1.4% (2021) · Ethiopia: 38.6% (2021)

Unemployment is 6.8% in Egypt, versus 3.3% in Ethiopia

Egypt: 6.8% (2025) · Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025)

Egypt and Ethiopia are practically level

Egypt: 0.6% (2025) · Ethiopia: 0.5% (2025)

Egypt’s central government collects 13% of GDP in tax, Ethiopia’s 3.4%

Egypt: 12.5% (2015) · Ethiopia: 3.4% (2024)

Ethiopia’s price level (US = 100) is 1.7× Egypt’s

Egypt: 15% (2025) · Ethiopia: 26% (2025)

Egypt spends 4.1 times as much on health per person as Ethiopia

Egypt: $141 (2023) · Ethiopia: $35 (2023)

A baby in Ethiopia is 66% more likely to die before turning one than in Egypt

Egypt: 20.8 per 1,000 (2024) · Ethiopia: 34.5 per 1,000 (2024)

Egypt has 4.7 times as many doctors per person as Ethiopia

Egypt: 0.7 per 1,000 (2020) · Ethiopia: 0.1 per 1,000 (2023)

Egypt has 3.2 times as many hospital beds per person as Ethiopia

Egypt: 1.1 per 1,000 (2021) · Ethiopia: 0.3 per 1,000 (2016)

The suicide rate in Ethiopia is 18 times that in Egypt

Egypt: 0.8 per 100k (2023) · Ethiopia: 14.4 per 100k (2023)

43% of adults in Egypt are obese, versus 2.5% in Ethiopia

Egypt: 42.8% (2024) · Ethiopia: 2.5% (2024)

25% of adults in Egypt smoke, versus 5.2% in Ethiopia

Egypt: 25% (2024) · Ethiopia: 5.2% (2024)

People in Ethiopia rate their lives 0.12 points higher than in Egypt

Egypt: 3.86 (2025) · Ethiopia: 3.99 (2025)

Adults in Ethiopia drink 22 times as much alcohol as in Egypt

Egypt: 0.1 litres (2023) · Ethiopia: 2.3 litres (2023)

Egypt has 4 times as much meat per person as Ethiopia

Egypt: 27.6 kg (2023) · Ethiopia: 6.9 kg (2023)

Egypt has 536 kcal more food per person per day than Ethiopia

Egypt: 3,094 kcal (2023) · Ethiopia: 2,558 kcal (2023)

Workers in Egypt put in 769 more hours a year than in Ethiopia

Egypt: 2,369 hours (2023) · Ethiopia: 1,599 hours (2023)

Adults in Egypt went to school 7.7 years longer than in Ethiopia

Egypt: 10.1 years (2023) · Ethiopia: 2.4 years (2023)

Egypt welcomed 25 times as many tourists per resident as Ethiopia (2019)

Egypt: 0.1 (2022) · Ethiopia: 0.0041 (2024)

Ethiopia has 5 more World Heritage sites than Egypt (12 against 7)

Egypt: 7 (2026) · Ethiopia: 12 (2026)

Ethiopia has won 62 Olympic medals, Egypt 41

Egypt: 41 (2026 edition) · Ethiopia: 62 (2026 edition)

75% of people in Egypt are online, versus 22% in Ethiopia

Egypt: 75% (2024) · Ethiopia: 22% (2024)

Home internet in Egypt is 3.7 times as fast as in Ethiopia

Egypt: 80 Mbps (2026) · Ethiopia: 22 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Egypt have electricity, versus 57% in Ethiopia

Egypt: 100% (2024) · Ethiopia: 56.6% (2024)

43% of people in Egypt live in cities, versus 24% in Ethiopia

Egypt: 43% (2025) · Ethiopia: 24% (2025)

Egypt has 97 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ethiopia 65

Egypt: 97 (2024) · Ethiopia: 65 (2024)

Egypt’s railway network is 6.8 times as long as Ethiopia’s

Egypt: 5,153 km (2016) · Ethiopia: 754 km (2018)

Airlines from Egypt fly 25% more passengers per resident than those from Ethiopia

Egypt: 0.14 (2023) · Ethiopia: 0.11 (2023)

Forest covers 24% of Ethiopia, but only 0.0% of Egypt

Egypt: 0% (2024) · Ethiopia: 23.8% (2024)

The average person in Egypt emits 16 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ethiopia

Egypt: 2.2 t (2024) · Ethiopia: 0.1 t (2024)

100% of Ethiopia’s electricity is renewable, versus 13% in Egypt

Egypt: 13% (2025) · Ethiopia: 100% (2025)

The air in Egypt carries 2 times as much fine dust as in Ethiopia

Egypt: 41.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Ethiopia: 20.2 µg/m³ (2024)

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

Roads in Ethiopia are 93% deadlier than in Egypt

Egypt: 12.4 per 100k (2023) · Ethiopia: 23.9 per 100k (2023)

Ethiopia is on average 0.4 °C warmer than Egypt

Egypt: 23.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Ethiopia: 23.9°C (2016–2025 avg)

Ethiopia gets 79 times as much rain as Egypt

Egypt: 12 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Ethiopia: 962 mm (2016–2025 avg)