Greece’s coastline is 5.6 times as long as Egypt’s

Egypt: 2,450 km (2026 edition) · Greece: 13,676 km (2026 edition)

Greece’s highest peak towers 288 m above Egypt’s

Egypt: 2,629 m (2026 edition) · Greece: 2,917 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 39% of Greece, versus 4.2% of Egypt

Egypt: 4.2% (2024) · Greece: 38.9% (2024)

Egypt has 11 times as many people as Greece

Egypt: 118 million (2025) · Greece: 10.4 million (2025)

Egypt is 47% more densely populated than Greece

Egypt: 119 per km² (2025) · Greece: 81 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Greece is 22 years older than in Egypt

Egypt: 24 years (2023) · Greece: 45.7 years (2023)

Women in Egypt have 1.5 more children on average than in Greece

Egypt: 2.74 children per woman (2024) · Greece: 1.24 children per woman (2024)

24% of people in Greece are 65 or older, versus 5.3% in Egypt

Egypt: 5.3% (2025) · Greece: 24.4% (2025)

Greece hosts 7 times as many refugees per resident as Egypt

Egypt: 1.9 per 1,000 (2025) · Greece: 12.9 per 1,000 (2025)

Greece has produced 1.0 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Egypt 0.5

Egypt: 0.5 (2026) · Greece: 1 (2026)

Egypt and Greece are practically level

Egypt: 1 (2026) · Greece: 1 (2026)

Egypt’s economy is 30% larger than Greece’s

Egypt: $365 billion (2025) · Greece: $281 billion (2025)

Greece produces 2.2 times as much per person as Egypt

Egypt: Int$20,204 (2025) · Greece: Int$45,264 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Greece than in Egypt (Gini 4.9 points higher)

Egypt: 28.5 (2021) · Greece: 33.4 (2023)

1.4% of people in Egypt live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.6% in Greece

Egypt: 1.4% (2021) · Greece: 0.6% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.5% in Greece, versus 6.8% in Egypt

Egypt: 6.8% (2025) · Greece: 8.5% (2025)

Greece spends 3.0% of its GDP on the military, Egypt 0.6%

Egypt: 0.6% (2025) · Greece: 3% (2025)

Greece’s central government collects 27% of GDP in tax, Egypt’s 13%

Egypt: 12.5% (2015) · Greece: 27.4% (2024)

Greece’s price level (US = 100) is 3.9× Egypt’s

Egypt: 15% (2025) · Greece: 60% (2025)

Greece spends 14 times as much on health per person as Egypt

Egypt: $141 (2023) · Greece: $1,963 (2023)

A baby in Egypt is 6.5 times as likely to die before turning one as in Greece

Egypt: 20.8 per 1,000 (2024) · Greece: 3.2 per 1,000 (2024)

Greece has 9.8 times as many doctors per person as Egypt

Egypt: 0.7 per 1,000 (2020) · Greece: 6.6 per 1,000 (2022)

Greece has 4 times as many hospital beds per person as Egypt

Egypt: 1.1 per 1,000 (2021) · Greece: 4.3 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Greece is 4.9 times that in Egypt

Egypt: 0.8 per 100k (2023) · Greece: 3.9 per 100k (2023)

43% of adults in Egypt are obese, versus 34% in Greece

Egypt: 42.8% (2024) · Greece: 33.7% (2024)

30% of adults in Greece smoke, versus 25% in Egypt

Egypt: 25% (2024) · Greece: 30.2% (2024)

People in Greece rate their lives 1.83 points higher than in Egypt

Egypt: 3.86 (2025) · Greece: 5.70 (2025)

Adults in Greece drink 83 times as much alcohol as in Egypt

Egypt: 0.1 litres (2023) · Greece: 8.6 litres (2023)

Greece has 3 times as much meat per person as Egypt

Egypt: 27.6 kg (2023) · Greece: 82 kg (2023)

Greece has 288 kcal more food per person per day than Egypt

Egypt: 3,094 kcal (2023) · Greece: 3,382 kcal (2023)

Workers in Egypt put in 475 more hours a year than in Greece

Egypt: 2,369 hours (2023) · Greece: 1,893 hours (2023)

Adults in Greece went to school 1.4 years longer than in Egypt

Egypt: 10.1 years (2023) · Greece: 11.6 years (2023)

Greece welcomed 26 times as many tourists per resident as Egypt (2019)

Egypt: 0.1 (2022) · Greece: 2.67 (2022)

Greece has 14 more World Heritage sites than Egypt (21 against 7)

Egypt: 7 (2026) · Greece: 21 (2026)

Greece has won 129 Olympic medals, Egypt 41

Egypt: 41 (2026 edition) · Greece: 129 (2026 edition)

86% of people in Greece are online, versus 75% in Egypt

Egypt: 75% (2024) · Greece: 86% (2024)

Home internet in Greece is 2.3 times as fast as in Egypt

Egypt: 80 Mbps (2026) · Greece: 186 Mbps (2026)

Egypt and Greece are practically level

Egypt: 100% (2024) · Greece: 100% (2024)

79% of people in Greece live in cities, versus 43% in Egypt

Egypt: 43% (2025) · Greece: 79% (2025)

Greece has 114 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Egypt 97

Egypt: 97 (2024) · Greece: 114 (2024)

Egypt’s railway network is 2.2 times as long as Greece’s

Egypt: 5,153 km (2016) · Greece: 2,339 km (2021)

Airlines from Greece fly 13 times as many passengers per resident as those from Egypt

Egypt: 0.14 (2023) · Greece: 1.83 (2023)

Forest covers 37% of Greece, but only 0.0% of Egypt

Egypt: 0% (2024) · Greece: 36.9% (2024)

The average person in Greece emits 2.4 times as much CO₂ as someone in Egypt

Egypt: 2.2 t (2024) · Greece: 5.3 t (2024)

50% of Greece’s electricity is renewable, versus 13% in Egypt

Egypt: 13% (2025) · Greece: 49.7% (2025)

The air in Egypt carries 2.7 times as much fine dust as in Greece

Egypt: 41.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Greece: 15.1 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 56% more likely to be murdered in Egypt than in Greece

Egypt: 1.3 per 100k (2017) · Greece: 0.8 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Egypt are 15% deadlier than in Greece

Egypt: 12.4 per 100k (2023) · Greece: 10.8 per 100k (2023)

Egypt is on average 7.8 °C warmer than Greece

Egypt: 23.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Greece: 15.7°C (2016–2025 avg)

Greece gets 66 times as much rain as Egypt

Egypt: 12 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Greece: 800 mm (2016–2025 avg)