Egypt’s coastline is 9 times as long as Israel’s

Egypt: 2,450 km (2026 edition) · Israel: 273 km (2026 edition)

Egypt’s highest peak towers 393 m above Israel’s

Egypt: 2,629 m (2026 edition) · Israel: 2,236 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 24% of Israel, versus 4.2% of Egypt

Egypt: 4.2% (2024) · Israel: 23.8% (2024)

Egypt has 12 times as many people as Israel

Egypt: 118 million (2025) · Israel: 10.1 million (2025)

Israel is 3.9 times as densely populated as Egypt

Egypt: 119 per km² (2025) · Israel: 468 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Israel is 5.1 years older than in Egypt

Egypt: 24 years (2023) · Israel: 29.2 years (2023)

Women in Israel have 0.1 more children on average than in Egypt

Egypt: 2.74 children per woman (2024) · Israel: 2.87 children per woman (2024)

13% of people in Israel are 65 or older, versus 5.3% in Egypt

Egypt: 5.3% (2025) · Israel: 12.7% (2025)

Egypt hosts 15 times as many refugees per resident as Israel

Egypt: 1.9 per 1,000 (2025) · Israel: 0.1 per 1,000 (2025)

Israel has produced 5.9 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Egypt 0.5

Egypt: 0.5 (2026) · Israel: 5.9 (2026)

Israel has 2 official languages, Egypt 1

Egypt: 1 (2026) · Israel: 2 (2026)

Israel’s economy is 67% larger than Egypt’s

Egypt: $365 billion (2025) · Israel: $611 billion (2025)

Israel produces 3 times as much per person as Egypt

Egypt: Int$20,204 (2025) · Israel: Int$59,717 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Israel than in Egypt (Gini 9.8 points higher)

Egypt: 28.5 (2021) · Israel: 38.3 (2022)

1.4% of people in Egypt live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.4% in Israel

Egypt: 1.4% (2021) · Israel: 0.4% (2022)

Unemployment is 6.8% in Egypt, versus 3.5% in Israel

Egypt: 6.8% (2025) · Israel: 3.5% (2025)

Israel spends 7.8% of its GDP on the military, Egypt 0.6%

Egypt: 0.6% (2025) · Israel: 7.8% (2025)

Israel’s central government collects 23% of GDP in tax, Egypt’s 13%

Egypt: 12.5% (2015) · Israel: 23.2% (2024)

Israel’s price level (US = 100) is 6.6× Egypt’s

Egypt: 15% (2025) · Israel: 101% (2025)

Israel spends 28 times as much on health per person as Egypt

Egypt: $141 (2023) · Israel: $3,928 (2023)

A baby in Egypt is 7.7 times as likely to die before turning one as in Israel

Egypt: 20.8 per 1,000 (2024) · Israel: 2.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Israel has 5.7 times as many doctors per person as Egypt

Egypt: 0.7 per 1,000 (2020) · Israel: 3.8 per 1,000 (2023)

Israel has 3 times as many hospital beds per person as Egypt

Egypt: 1.1 per 1,000 (2021) · Israel: 3.1 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Israel is 8.6 times that in Egypt

Egypt: 0.8 per 100k (2023) · Israel: 6.9 per 100k (2023)

43% of adults in Egypt are obese, versus 23% in Israel

Egypt: 42.8% (2024) · Israel: 23.3% (2024)

25% of adults in Egypt smoke, versus 21% in Israel

Egypt: 25% (2024) · Israel: 21.2% (2024)

People in Israel rate their lives 3.33 points higher than in Egypt

Egypt: 3.86 (2025) · Israel: 7.19 (2025)

Adults in Israel drink 41 times as much alcohol as in Egypt

Egypt: 0.1 litres (2023) · Israel: 4.2 litres (2023)

Israel has 3.9 times as much meat per person as Egypt

Egypt: 27.6 kg (2023) · Israel: 108.7 kg (2023)

Israel has 660 kcal more food per person per day than Egypt

Egypt: 3,094 kcal (2023) · Israel: 3,754 kcal (2023)

Workers in Egypt put in 478 more hours a year than in Israel

Egypt: 2,369 hours (2023) · Israel: 1,890 hours (2023)

Adults in Israel went to school 3.4 years longer than in Egypt

Egypt: 10.1 years (2023) · Israel: 13.5 years (2023)

Egypt welcomed 7% more tourists per resident than Israel (2019)

Egypt: 0.1 (2022) · Israel: 0.1 (2024)

Israel has 2 more World Heritage sites than Egypt (9 against 7)

Egypt: 7 (2026) · Israel: 9 (2026)

Egypt has won 41 Olympic medals, Israel 20

Egypt: 41 (2026 edition) · Israel: 20 (2026 edition)

88% of people in Israel are online, versus 75% in Egypt

Egypt: 75% (2024) · Israel: 88% (2024)

Home internet in Israel is 4.9 times as fast as in Egypt

Egypt: 80 Mbps (2026) · Israel: 392 Mbps (2026)

Egypt and Israel are practically level

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

92% of people in Israel live in cities, versus 43% in Egypt

Egypt: 43% (2025) · Israel: 92% (2025)

Israel has 177 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Egypt 97

Egypt: 97 (2024) · Israel: 177 (2024)

Egypt’s railway network is 3 times as long as Israel’s

Egypt: 5,153 km (2016) · Israel: 1,720 km (2021)

Airlines from Israel fly 5.2 times as many passengers per resident as those from Egypt

Egypt: 0.14 (2023) · Israel: 0.73 (2023)

Forest covers 6.8% of Israel, but only 0.0% of Egypt

Egypt: 0% (2024) · Israel: 6.8% (2024)

The average person in Israel emits 2.5 times as much CO₂ as someone in Egypt

Egypt: 2.2 t (2024) · Israel: 5.6 t (2024)

17% of Israel’s electricity is renewable, versus 13% in Egypt

Egypt: 13% (2025) · Israel: 16.9% (2025)

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

Egypt: 41.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Israel: 20.4 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 24% more likely to be murdered in Israel than in Egypt

Egypt: 1.3 per 100k (2017) · Israel: 1.6 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Egypt are 82% deadlier than in Israel

Egypt: 12.4 per 100k (2023) · Israel: 6.8 per 100k (2023)

Egypt is on average 2.4 °C warmer than Israel

Egypt: 23.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Israel: 21.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

Israel gets 17 times as much rain as Egypt

Egypt: 12 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Israel: 205 mm (2016–2025 avg)