New Zealand’s coastline is 6.2 times as long as Egypt’s

Egypt: 2,450 km (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 15,134 km (2026 edition)

Egypt’s highest peak towers 2,599 m above New Zealand’s

Egypt: 2,629 m (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 30 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 37% of New Zealand, versus 4.2% of Egypt

Egypt: 4.2% (2024) · New Zealand: 36.8% (2024)

Egypt has 22 times as many people as New Zealand

Egypt: 118 million (2025) · New Zealand: 5.32 million (2025)

Egypt is 5.9 times as densely populated as New Zealand

Egypt: 119 per km² (2025) · New Zealand: 20 per km² (2025)

The typical person in New Zealand is 13 years older than in Egypt

Egypt: 24 years (2023) · New Zealand: 37.3 years (2023)

Women in Egypt have 1.2 more children on average than in New Zealand

Egypt: 2.74 children per woman (2024) · New Zealand: 1.57 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in New Zealand are 65 or older, versus 5.3% in Egypt

Egypt: 5.3% (2025) · New Zealand: 17.6% (2025)

Egypt hosts 4.6 times as many refugees per resident as New Zealand

Egypt: 1.9 per 1,000 (2025) · New Zealand: 0.4 per 1,000 (2025)

New Zealand has produced 5.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Egypt 0.5

Egypt: 0.5 (2026) · New Zealand: 5.6 (2026)

New Zealand has 3 official languages, Egypt 1

Egypt: 1 (2026) · New Zealand: 3 (2026)

Egypt’s economy is 38% larger than New Zealand’s

Egypt: $365 billion (2025) · New Zealand: $264 billion (2025)

New Zealand produces 2.8 times as much per person as Egypt

Egypt: Int$20,204 (2025) · New Zealand: Int$57,350 (2025)

Egypt: 28.5 (2021) · New Zealand: no data

Egypt: 1.4% (2021) · New Zealand: no data

Unemployment is 6.8% in Egypt, versus 5.1% in New Zealand

Egypt: 6.8% (2025) · New Zealand: 5.1% (2025)

New Zealand and Egypt are practically level

Egypt: 0.6% (2025) · New Zealand: 1.1% (2025)

New Zealand’s central government collects 30% of GDP in tax, Egypt’s 13%

Egypt: 12.5% (2015) · New Zealand: 29.5% (2024)

New Zealand’s price level (US = 100) is 5.7× Egypt’s

Egypt: 15% (2025) · New Zealand: 86% (2025)

New Zealand spends 36 times as much on health per person as Egypt

Egypt: $141 (2023) · New Zealand: $5,022 (2024)

A baby in Egypt is 5.2 times as likely to die before turning one as in New Zealand

Egypt: 20.8 per 1,000 (2024) · New Zealand: 4 per 1,000 (2024)

New Zealand has 5.4 times as many doctors per person as Egypt

Egypt: 0.7 per 1,000 (2020) · New Zealand: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022)

New Zealand has 2.4 times as many hospital beds per person as Egypt

Egypt: 1.1 per 1,000 (2021) · New Zealand: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in New Zealand is 16 times that in Egypt

Egypt: 0.8 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 13 per 100k (2023)

43% of adults in Egypt are obese, versus 35% in New Zealand

Egypt: 42.8% (2024) · New Zealand: 34.7% (2024)

25% of adults in Egypt smoke, versus 9.3% in New Zealand

Egypt: 25% (2024) · New Zealand: 9.3% (2024)

People in New Zealand rate their lives 3.13 points higher than in Egypt

Egypt: 3.86 (2025) · New Zealand: 7.00 (2025)

Adults in New Zealand drink 86 times as much alcohol as in Egypt

Egypt: 0.1 litres (2023) · New Zealand: 8.9 litres (2023)

New Zealand has 2.9 times as much meat per person as Egypt

Egypt: 27.6 kg (2023) · New Zealand: 79.5 kg (2023)

New Zealand has 27 kcal more food per person per day than Egypt

Egypt: 3,094 kcal (2023) · New Zealand: 3,122 kcal (2023)

Workers in Egypt put in 661 more hours a year than in New Zealand

Egypt: 2,369 hours (2023) · New Zealand: 1,708 hours (2023)

Adults in New Zealand went to school 2.7 years longer than in Egypt

Egypt: 10.1 years (2023) · New Zealand: 12.9 years (2023)

New Zealand welcomed 5.8 times as many tourists per resident as Egypt (2019)

Egypt: 0.1 (2022) · New Zealand: 0.6 (2024)

Egypt has 4 more World Heritage sites than New Zealand (7 against 3)

Egypt: 7 (2026) · New Zealand: 3 (2026)

New Zealand has won 166 Olympic medals, Egypt 41

Egypt: 41 (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 166 (2026 edition)

94% of people in New Zealand are online, versus 75% in Egypt

Egypt: 75% (2024) · New Zealand: 94% (2024)

Home internet in New Zealand is 3.4 times as fast as in Egypt

Egypt: 80 Mbps (2026) · New Zealand: 272 Mbps (2026)

Egypt and New Zealand are practically level

Egypt: 100% (2024) · New Zealand: 100% (2024)

84% of people in New Zealand live in cities, versus 43% in Egypt

Egypt: 43% (2025) · New Zealand: 84% (2025)

New Zealand has 130 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Egypt 97

Egypt: 97 (2024) · New Zealand: 130 (2024)

Egypt’s railway network is 25% longer than New Zealand’s

Egypt: 5,153 km (2016) · New Zealand: 4,128 km (2018)

Airlines from New Zealand fly 20 times as many passengers per resident as those from Egypt

Egypt: 0.14 (2023) · New Zealand: 2.82 (2023)

Forest covers 39% of New Zealand, but only 0.0% of Egypt

Egypt: 0% (2024) · New Zealand: 38.9% (2024)

The average person in New Zealand emits 2.8 times as much CO₂ as someone in Egypt

Egypt: 2.2 t (2024) · New Zealand: 6.2 t (2024)

89% of New Zealand’s electricity is renewable, versus 13% in Egypt

Egypt: 13% (2025) · New Zealand: 88.5% (2025)

The air in Egypt carries 5.9 times as much fine dust as in New Zealand

Egypt: 41.3 µg/m³ (2024) · New Zealand: 7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 11% more likely to be murdered in New Zealand than in Egypt

Egypt: 1.3 per 100k (2017) · New Zealand: 1.5 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Egypt are 14% deadlier than in New Zealand

Egypt: 12.4 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 10.9 per 100k (2023)

Egypt is on average 12.4 °C warmer than New Zealand

Egypt: 23.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 11.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

New Zealand gets 131 times as much rain as Egypt

Egypt: 12 mm (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 1,596 mm (2016–2025 avg)