Papua New Guinea’s coastline is 2.1 times as long as Egypt’s

Egypt: 2,450 km (2026 edition) · Papua New Guinea: 5,152 km (2026 edition)

Papua New Guinea’s highest peak towers 1,880 m above Egypt’s

Egypt: 2,629 m (2026 edition) · Papua New Guinea: 4,509 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 4.2% of Egypt, versus 3.1% of Papua New Guinea

Egypt: 4.2% (2024) · Papua New Guinea: 3.1% (2024)

Egypt has 11 times as many people as Papua New Guinea

Egypt: 118 million (2025) · Papua New Guinea: 10.8 million (2025)

Egypt is 5 times as densely populated as Papua New Guinea

Egypt: 119 per km² (2025) · Papua New Guinea: 24 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Egypt is 1.7 years older than in Papua New Guinea

Egypt: 24 years (2023) · Papua New Guinea: 22.3 years (2023)

Women in Papua New Guinea have 0.3 more children on average than in Egypt

Egypt: 2.74 children per woman (2024) · Papua New Guinea: 3.07 children per woman (2024)

5.3% of people in Egypt are 65 or older, versus 3.6% in Papua New Guinea

Egypt: 5.3% (2025) · Papua New Guinea: 3.6% (2025)

Egypt hosts 2.6 times as many refugees per resident as Papua New Guinea

Egypt: 1.9 per 1,000 (2025) · Papua New Guinea: 0.7 per 1,000 (2025)

Egypt has produced 0.5 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Papua New Guinea none

Egypt: 0.5 (2026) · Papua New Guinea: 0 (2026)

Papua New Guinea has 3 official languages, Egypt 1

Egypt: 1 (2026) · Papua New Guinea: 3 (2026)

Egypt’s economy is 11 times the size of Papua New Guinea’s

Egypt: $365 billion (2025) · Papua New Guinea: $32.5 billion (2025)

Egypt produces 3.9 times as much per person as Papua New Guinea

Egypt: Int$20,204 (2025) · Papua New Guinea: Int$5,215 (2025)

Egypt: 28.5 (2021) · Papua New Guinea: no data

Egypt: 1.4% (2021) · Papua New Guinea: no data

Unemployment is 6.8% in Egypt, versus 2.6% in Papua New Guinea

Egypt: 6.8% (2025) · Papua New Guinea: 2.6% (2025)

Egypt and Papua New Guinea are practically level

Egypt: 0.6% (2025) · Papua New Guinea: 0.4% (2025)

Papua New Guinea’s central government collects 16% of GDP in tax, Egypt’s 13%

Egypt: 12.5% (2015) · Papua New Guinea: 15.5% (2024)

Papua New Guinea’s price level (US = 100) is 3.8× Egypt’s

Egypt: 15% (2025) · Papua New Guinea: 58% (2025)

Egypt spends 66% more on health per person than Papua New Guinea

Egypt: $141 (2023) · Papua New Guinea: $85 (2023)

A baby in Papua New Guinea is 50% more likely to die before turning one than in Egypt

Egypt: 20.8 per 1,000 (2024) · Papua New Guinea: 31.3 per 1,000 (2024)

Egypt has 11 times as many doctors per person as Papua New Guinea

Egypt: 0.7 per 1,000 (2020) · Papua New Guinea: 0.1 per 1,000 (2023)

Egypt has 71% more hospital beds per person than Papua New Guinea

Egypt: 1.1 per 1,000 (2021) · Papua New Guinea: 0.6 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Papua New Guinea is 3.6 times that in Egypt

Egypt: 0.8 per 100k (2023) · Papua New Guinea: 2.9 per 100k (2023)

43% of adults in Egypt are obese, versus 28% in Papua New Guinea

Egypt: 42.8% (2024) · Papua New Guinea: 27.6% (2024)

39% of adults in Papua New Guinea smoke, versus 25% in Egypt

Egypt: 25% (2024) · Papua New Guinea: 39.3% (2024)

Egypt: 3.86 (2025) · Papua New Guinea: no data

Adults in Papua New Guinea drink 9.3 times as much alcohol as in Egypt

Egypt: 0.1 litres (2023) · Papua New Guinea: 1 litres (2023)

Papua New Guinea has 2.1 times as much meat per person as Egypt

Egypt: 27.6 kg (2023) · Papua New Guinea: 58.5 kg (2023)

Egypt has 917 kcal more food per person per day than Papua New Guinea

Egypt: 3,094 kcal (2023) · Papua New Guinea: 2,177 kcal (2023)

Egypt: 2,369 hours (2023) · Papua New Guinea: no data

Adults in Egypt went to school 5.2 years longer than in Papua New Guinea

Egypt: 10.1 years (2023) · Papua New Guinea: 5 years (2023)

Egypt welcomed 16 times as many tourists per resident as Papua New Guinea (2019)

Egypt: 0.1 (2022) · Papua New Guinea: 0.01 (2022)

Egypt has 6 more World Heritage sites than Papua New Guinea (7 against 1)

Egypt: 7 (2026) · Papua New Guinea: 1 (2026)

Egypt has won 41 Olympic medals, Papua New Guinea none

Egypt: 41 (2026 edition) · Papua New Guinea: 0 (2026 edition)

75% of people in Egypt are online, versus 19% in Papua New Guinea

Egypt: 75% (2024) · Papua New Guinea: 19% (2024)

Home internet in Papua New Guinea is 32% faster than in Egypt

Egypt: 80 Mbps (2026) · Papua New Guinea: 106 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Egypt have electricity, versus 43% in Papua New Guinea

Egypt: 100% (2024) · Papua New Guinea: 43.3% (2024)

43% of people in Egypt live in cities, versus 16% in Papua New Guinea

Egypt: 43% (2025) · Papua New Guinea: 16% (2025)

Egypt has 97 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Papua New Guinea 39

Egypt: 97 (2024) · Papua New Guinea: 39 (2024)

Egypt: 5,153 km (2016) · Papua New Guinea: no data

Airlines from Papua New Guinea fly 2% more passengers per resident than those from Egypt

Egypt: 0.14 (2023) · Papua New Guinea: 0.14 (2023)

Forest covers 75% of Papua New Guinea, but only 0.0% of Egypt

Egypt: 0% (2024) · Papua New Guinea: 75.2% (2024)

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

Egypt: 2.2 t (2024) · Papua New Guinea: 0.8 t (2024)

24% of Papua New Guinea’s electricity is renewable, versus 13% in Egypt

Egypt: 13% (2025) · Papua New Guinea: 23.7% (2024)

The air in Egypt carries 3.8 times as much fine dust as in Papua New Guinea

Egypt: 41.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Papua New Guinea: 11 µg/m³ (2024)

Egypt: 1.3 per 100k (2017) · Papua New Guinea: no data

Roads in Papua New Guinea are 52% deadlier than in Egypt

Egypt: 12.4 per 100k (2023) · Papua New Guinea: 18.9 per 100k (2023)

Papua New Guinea is on average 0.4 °C warmer than Egypt

Egypt: 23.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Papua New Guinea: 24°C (2016–2025 avg)

Papua New Guinea gets 351 times as much rain as Egypt

Egypt: 12 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Papua New Guinea: 4,281 mm (2016–2025 avg)