Norway’s coastline is 10 times as long as Egypt’s

Egypt: 2,450 km (2026 edition) · Norway: 25,148 km (2026 edition)

Egypt’s highest peak towers 160 m above Norway’s

Egypt: 2,629 m (2026 edition) · Norway: 2,469 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 4.2% of Egypt, versus 2.7% of Norway

Egypt: 4.2% (2024) · Norway: 2.7% (2024)

Egypt has 21 times as many people as Norway

Egypt: 118 million (2025) · Norway: 5.61 million (2025)

Egypt is 7.7 times as densely populated as Norway

Egypt: 119 per km² (2025) · Norway: 15 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Norway is 16 years older than in Egypt

Egypt: 24 years (2023) · Norway: 39.5 years (2023)

Women in Egypt have 1.3 more children on average than in Norway

Egypt: 2.74 children per woman (2024) · Norway: 1.45 children per woman (2024)

19% of people in Norway are 65 or older, versus 5.3% in Egypt

Egypt: 5.3% (2025) · Norway: 19.1% (2025)

Norway hosts 12 times as many refugees per resident as Egypt

Egypt: 1.9 per 1,000 (2025) · Norway: 22.1 per 1,000 (2025)

Norway has produced 23.2 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Egypt 0.5

Egypt: 0.5 (2026) · Norway: 23.2 (2026)

Norway has 3 official languages, Egypt 1

Egypt: 1 (2026) · Norway: 3 (2026)

Norway’s economy is 45% larger than Egypt’s

Egypt: $365 billion (2025) · Norway: $531 billion (2025)

Norway produces 5.1 times as much per person as Egypt

Egypt: Int$20,204 (2025) · Norway: Int$104,044 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Egypt than in Norway (Gini 2 points higher)

Egypt: 28.5 (2021) · Norway: 26.5 (2023)

1.4% of people in Egypt live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.2% in Norway

Egypt: 1.4% (2021) · Norway: 0.2% (2023)

Unemployment is 6.8% in Egypt, versus 4.6% in Norway

Egypt: 6.8% (2025) · Norway: 4.6% (2025)

Norway spends 3.3% of its GDP on the military, Egypt 0.6%

Egypt: 0.6% (2025) · Norway: 3.3% (2025)

Norway’s central government collects 25% of GDP in tax, Egypt’s 13%

Egypt: 12.5% (2015) · Norway: 24.5% (2024)

Norway’s price level (US = 100) is 6× Egypt’s

Egypt: 15% (2025) · Norway: 91% (2025)

Norway spends 59 times as much on health per person as Egypt

Egypt: $141 (2023) · Norway: $8,296 (2023)

A baby in Egypt is 10 times as likely to die before turning one as in Norway

Egypt: 20.8 per 1,000 (2024) · Norway: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Norway has 7.4 times as many doctors per person as Egypt

Egypt: 0.7 per 1,000 (2020) · Norway: 5 per 1,000 (2023)

Norway has 3.1 times as many hospital beds per person as Egypt

Egypt: 1.1 per 1,000 (2021) · Norway: 3.3 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Norway is 14 times that in Egypt

Egypt: 0.8 per 100k (2023) · Norway: 11.6 per 100k (2023)

43% of adults in Egypt are obese, versus 21% in Norway

Egypt: 42.8% (2024) · Norway: 20.7% (2024)

25% of adults in Egypt smoke, versus 13% in Norway

Egypt: 25% (2024) · Norway: 12.9% (2024)

People in Norway rate their lives 3.38 points higher than in Egypt

Egypt: 3.86 (2025) · Norway: 7.24 (2025)

Adults in Norway drink 67 times as much alcohol as in Egypt

Egypt: 0.1 litres (2023) · Norway: 7 litres (2023)

Norway has 2.5 times as much meat per person as Egypt

Egypt: 27.6 kg (2023) · Norway: 70.4 kg (2023)

Norway has 382 kcal more food per person per day than Egypt

Egypt: 3,094 kcal (2023) · Norway: 3,476 kcal (2023)

Workers in Egypt put in 956 more hours a year than in Norway

Egypt: 2,369 hours (2023) · Norway: 1,412 hours (2023)

Adults in Norway went to school 3 years longer than in Egypt

Egypt: 10.1 years (2023) · Norway: 13.1 years (2023)

Norway welcomed 8.8 times as many tourists per resident as Egypt (2019)

Egypt: 0.1 (2022) · Norway: 0.91 (2022)

Norway has 1 more World Heritage site than Egypt (8 against 7)

Egypt: 7 (2026) · Norway: 8 (2026)

Norway has won 616 Olympic medals, Egypt 41

Egypt: 41 (2026 edition) · Norway: 616 (2026 edition)

99% of people in Norway are online, versus 75% in Egypt

Egypt: 75% (2024) · Norway: 99% (2024)

Home internet in Norway is 2.8 times as fast as in Egypt

Egypt: 80 Mbps (2026) · Norway: 228 Mbps (2026)

Egypt and Norway are practically level

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

84% of people in Norway live in cities, versus 43% in Egypt

Egypt: 43% (2025) · Norway: 84% (2025)

Norway has 109 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Egypt 97

Egypt: 97 (2024) · Norway: 109 (2024)

Egypt’s railway network is 33% longer than Norway’s

Egypt: 5,153 km (2016) · Norway: 3,885 km (2021)

Egypt: 0.14 (2023) · Norway: no data

Forest covers 33% of Norway, but only 0.0% of Egypt

Egypt: 0% (2024) · Norway: 33.2% (2024)

The average person in Norway emits 3 times as much CO₂ as someone in Egypt

Egypt: 2.2 t (2024) · Norway: 6.7 t (2024)

99% of Norway’s electricity is renewable, versus 13% in Egypt

Egypt: 13% (2025) · Norway: 99% (2025)

The air in Egypt carries 6.2 times as much fine dust as in Norway

Egypt: 41.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Norway: 6.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 81% more likely to be murdered in Egypt than in Norway

Egypt: 1.3 per 100k (2017) · Norway: 0.7 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Egypt are 4.3 times as deadly as in Norway

Egypt: 12.4 per 100k (2023) · Norway: 2.9 per 100k (2023)

Egypt is on average 21.9 °C warmer than Norway

Egypt: 23.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Norway: 1.6°C (2016–2025 avg)

Norway gets 103 times as much rain as Egypt

Egypt: 12 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Norway: 1,259 mm (2016–2025 avg)