Egypt’s coastline is 4.8 times as long as Ivory Coast’s

Egypt: 2,450 km (2026 edition) · Ivory Coast: 515 km (2026 edition)

Egypt’s highest peak towers 877 m above Ivory Coast’s

Egypt: 2,629 m (2026 edition) · Ivory Coast: 1,752 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 84% of Ivory Coast, versus 4.2% of Egypt

Egypt: 4.2% (2024) · Ivory Coast: 83.9% (2024)

Egypt has 3.6 times as many people as Ivory Coast

Egypt: 118 million (2025) · Ivory Coast: 32.7 million (2025)

Egypt is 16% more densely populated than Ivory Coast

Egypt: 119 per km² (2025) · Ivory Coast: 103 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Egypt is 5.9 years older than in Ivory Coast

Egypt: 24 years (2023) · Ivory Coast: 18.1 years (2023)

Women in Ivory Coast have 1.5 more children on average than in Egypt

Egypt: 2.74 children per woman (2024) · Ivory Coast: 4.23 children per woman (2024)

5.3% of people in Egypt are 65 or older, versus 2.7% in Ivory Coast

Egypt: 5.3% (2025) · Ivory Coast: 2.7% (2025)

Ivory Coast hosts 23% more refugees per resident than Egypt

Egypt: 1.9 per 1,000 (2025) · Ivory Coast: 2.3 per 1,000 (2025)

Egypt has produced 0.5 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ivory Coast none

Egypt: 0.5 (2026) · Ivory Coast: 0 (2026)

Egypt and Ivory Coast are practically level

Egypt: 1 (2026) · Ivory Coast: 1 (2026)

Egypt’s economy is 3.7 times the size of Ivory Coast’s

Egypt: $365 billion (2025) · Ivory Coast: $99.8 billion (2025)

Egypt produces 2.5 times as much per person as Ivory Coast

Egypt: Int$20,204 (2025) · Ivory Coast: Int$8,209 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Ivory Coast than in Egypt (Gini 6.8 points higher)

Egypt: 28.5 (2021) · Ivory Coast: 35.3 (2021)

21% of people in Ivory Coast live on less than $3 a day, versus 1.4% in Egypt

Egypt: 1.4% (2021) · Ivory Coast: 20.8% (2021)

Unemployment is 6.8% in Egypt, versus 2.3% in Ivory Coast

Egypt: 6.8% (2025) · Ivory Coast: 2.3% (2025)

Ivory Coast and Egypt are practically level

Egypt: 0.6% (2025) · Ivory Coast: 0.8% (2025)

Ivory Coast’s central government collects 13% of GDP in tax, Egypt’s 13%

Egypt: 12.5% (2015) · Ivory Coast: 13% (2023)

Ivory Coast’s price level (US = 100) is 2.4× Egypt’s

Egypt: 15% (2025) · Ivory Coast: 37% (2025)

Egypt spends 61% more on health per person than Ivory Coast

Egypt: $141 (2023) · Ivory Coast: $88 (2023)

A baby in Ivory Coast is 2.2 times as likely to die before turning one as in Egypt

Egypt: 20.8 per 1,000 (2024) · Ivory Coast: 44.8 per 1,000 (2024)

Egypt has 4 times as many doctors per person as Ivory Coast

Egypt: 0.7 per 1,000 (2020) · Ivory Coast: 0.2 per 1,000 (2023)

Egypt: 1.1 per 1,000 (2021) · Ivory Coast: no data

The suicide rate in Ivory Coast is 21 times that in Egypt

Egypt: 0.8 per 100k (2023) · Ivory Coast: 16.5 per 100k (2023)

43% of adults in Egypt are obese, versus 12% in Ivory Coast

Egypt: 42.8% (2024) · Ivory Coast: 12% (2024)

25% of adults in Egypt smoke, versus 7.3% in Ivory Coast

Egypt: 25% (2024) · Ivory Coast: 7.3% (2024)

People in Ivory Coast rate their lives 1.29 points higher than in Egypt

Egypt: 3.86 (2025) · Ivory Coast: 5.15 (2025)

Adults in Ivory Coast drink 40 times as much alcohol as in Egypt

Egypt: 0.1 litres (2023) · Ivory Coast: 4.2 litres (2023)

Egypt has 2.3 times as much meat per person as Ivory Coast

Egypt: 27.6 kg (2023) · Ivory Coast: 12 kg (2023)

Egypt has 156 kcal more food per person per day than Ivory Coast

Egypt: 3,094 kcal (2023) · Ivory Coast: 2,938 kcal (2023)

Workers in Egypt put in 265 more hours a year than in Ivory Coast

Egypt: 2,369 hours (2023) · Ivory Coast: 2,103 hours (2023)

Adults in Egypt went to school 5.3 years longer than in Ivory Coast

Egypt: 10.1 years (2023) · Ivory Coast: 4.9 years (2023)

Egypt: 0.1 (2022) · Ivory Coast: no data

Egypt has 2 more World Heritage sites than Ivory Coast (7 against 5)

Egypt: 7 (2026) · Ivory Coast: 5 (2026)

Egypt has won 41 Olympic medals, Ivory Coast 5

Egypt: 41 (2026 edition) · Ivory Coast: 5 (2026 edition)

75% of people in Egypt are online, versus 41% in Ivory Coast

Egypt: 75% (2024) · Ivory Coast: 41% (2024)

Home internet in Ivory Coast is 6% faster than in Egypt

Egypt: 80 Mbps (2026) · Ivory Coast: 85 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Egypt have electricity, versus 73% in Ivory Coast

Egypt: 100% (2024) · Ivory Coast: 72.9% (2024)

55% of people in Ivory Coast live in cities, versus 43% in Egypt

Egypt: 43% (2025) · Ivory Coast: 55% (2025)

Ivory Coast has 184 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Egypt 97

Egypt: 97 (2024) · Ivory Coast: 184 (2024)

Egypt’s railway network is 8.1 times as long as Ivory Coast’s

Egypt: 5,153 km (2016) · Ivory Coast: 639 km (2021)

Airlines from Egypt fly 6.4 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ivory Coast

Egypt: 0.14 (2023) · Ivory Coast: 0.02 (2023)

Forest covers 12% of Ivory Coast, but only 0.0% of Egypt

Egypt: 0% (2024) · Ivory Coast: 12.1% (2024)

The average person in Egypt emits 4.8 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ivory Coast

Egypt: 2.2 t (2024) · Ivory Coast: 0.5 t (2024)

29% of Ivory Coast’s electricity is renewable, versus 13% in Egypt

Egypt: 13% (2025) · Ivory Coast: 28.9% (2024)

The air in Egypt carries 2 times as much fine dust as in Ivory Coast

Egypt: 41.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Ivory Coast: 20.2 µg/m³ (2024)

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

Roads in Ivory Coast are 2.5 times as deadly as in Egypt

Egypt: 12.4 per 100k (2023) · Ivory Coast: 30.9 per 100k (2023)

Ivory Coast is on average 3.3 °C warmer than Egypt

Egypt: 23.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Ivory Coast: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Ivory Coast gets 101 times as much rain as Egypt

Egypt: 12 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Ivory Coast: 1,226 mm (2016–2025 avg)