The Philippines’ coastline is 15 times as long as Egypt’s

Egypt: 2,450 km (2026 edition) · Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition)

The Philippines’ highest peak towers 325 m above Egypt’s

Egypt: 2,629 m (2026 edition) · Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 43% of the Philippines, versus 4.2% of Egypt

Egypt: 4.2% (2024) · Philippines: 42.7% (2024)

Egypt has 1% more people than the Philippines

Egypt: 118 million (2025) · Philippines: 117 million (2025)

The Philippines is 3.3 times as densely populated as Egypt

Egypt: 119 per km² (2025) · Philippines: 392 per km² (2025)

The typical person in the Philippines is 1.3 years older than in Egypt

Egypt: 24 years (2023) · Philippines: 25.3 years (2023)

Women in Egypt have 0.8 more children on average than in the Philippines

Egypt: 2.74 children per woman (2024) · Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024)

The Philippines and Egypt are practically level

Egypt: 5.3% (2025) · Philippines: 5.7% (2025)

Egypt hosts 210 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Egypt: 1.9 per 1,000 (2025) · Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025)

Egypt has produced 0.5 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, the Philippines 0.1

Egypt: 0.5 (2026) · Philippines: 0.1 (2026)

The Philippines has 2 official languages, Egypt 1

Egypt: 1 (2026) · Philippines: 2 (2026)

The Philippines’ economy is 33% larger than Egypt’s

Egypt: $365 billion (2025) · Philippines: $487 billion (2025)

Egypt produces 61% more per person than the Philippines

Egypt: Int$20,204 (2025) · Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the Philippines than in Egypt (Gini 10.8 points higher)

Egypt: 28.5 (2021) · Philippines: 39.3 (2023)

5.3% of people in the Philippines live on less than $3 a day, versus 1.4% in Egypt

Egypt: 1.4% (2021) · Philippines: 5.3% (2023)

Unemployment is 6.8% in Egypt, versus 2.2% in the Philippines

Egypt: 6.8% (2025) · Philippines: 2.2% (2025)

The Philippines spends 1.3% of its GDP on the military, Egypt 0.6%

Egypt: 0.6% (2025) · Philippines: 1.3% (2025)

The Philippines’ central government collects 14% of GDP in tax, Egypt’s 13%

Egypt: 12.5% (2015) · Philippines: 14.4% (2024)

The Philippines’ price level (US = 100) is 2.2× Egypt’s

Egypt: 15% (2025) · Philippines: 33% (2025)

The Philippines spends 37% more on health per person than Egypt

Egypt: $141 (2023) · Philippines: $194 (2023)

A baby in the Philippines is 4% more likely to die before turning one than in Egypt

Egypt: 20.8 per 1,000 (2024) · Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024)

The Philippines has 18% more doctors per person than Egypt

Egypt: 0.7 per 1,000 (2020) · Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021)

Egypt has 9% more hospital beds per person than the Philippines

Egypt: 1.1 per 1,000 (2021) · Philippines: 1 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in the Philippines is 3.9 times that in Egypt

Egypt: 0.8 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023)

43% of adults in Egypt are obese, versus 9.7% in the Philippines

Egypt: 42.8% (2024) · Philippines: 9.7% (2024)

25% of adults in Egypt smoke, versus 20% in the Philippines

Egypt: 25% (2024) · Philippines: 19.9% (2024)

People in the Philippines rate their lives 2.34 points higher than in Egypt

Egypt: 3.86 (2025) · Philippines: 6.21 (2025)

Adults in the Philippines drink 59 times as much alcohol as in Egypt

Egypt: 0.1 litres (2023) · Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023)

The Philippines has 22% more meat per person than Egypt

Egypt: 27.6 kg (2023) · Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023)

Egypt has 111 kcal more food per person per day than the Philippines

Egypt: 3,094 kcal (2023) · Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023)

Workers in Egypt put in 273 more hours a year than in the Philippines

Egypt: 2,369 hours (2023) · Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023)

Adults in Egypt went to school 0.16 years longer than in the Philippines

Egypt: 10.1 years (2023) · Philippines: 10 years (2023)

Egypt welcomed 4.4 times as many tourists per resident as the Philippines (2019)

Egypt: 0.1 (2022) · Philippines: 0.02 (2022)

Egypt has 1 more World Heritage site than the Philippines (7 against 6)

Egypt: 7 (2026) · Philippines: 6 (2026)

Egypt has won 41 Olympic medals, the Philippines 18

Egypt: 41 (2026 edition) · Philippines: 18 (2026 edition)

75% of people in Egypt are online, versus 67% in the Philippines

Egypt: 75% (2024) · Philippines: 67% (2024)

Home internet in the Philippines is 2.1 times as fast as in Egypt

Egypt: 80 Mbps (2026) · Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Egypt have electricity, versus 95% in the Philippines

Egypt: 100% (2024) · Philippines: 94.8% (2024)

56% of people in the Philippines live in cities, versus 43% in Egypt

Egypt: 43% (2025) · Philippines: 56% (2025)

The Philippines has 115 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Egypt 97

Egypt: 97 (2024) · Philippines: 115 (2024)

Egypt’s railway network is 10 times as long as the Philippines’

Egypt: 5,153 km (2016) · Philippines: 509 km (2016)

Airlines from the Philippines fly 2.5 times as many passengers per resident as those from Egypt

Egypt: 0.14 (2023) · Philippines: 0.36 (2023)

Forest covers 25% of the Philippines, but only 0.0% of Egypt

Egypt: 0% (2024) · Philippines: 24.8% (2024)

The average person in Egypt emits 47% more CO₂ than someone in the Philippines

Egypt: 2.2 t (2024) · Philippines: 1.5 t (2024)

23% of the Philippines’ electricity is renewable, versus 13% in Egypt

Egypt: 13% (2025) · Philippines: 23.3% (2025)

The air in Egypt carries 79% more fine dust than in the Philippines

Egypt: 41.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 3.3 times as likely to be murdered in the Philippines as in Egypt

Egypt: 1.3 per 100k (2017) · Philippines: 4.3 per 100k (2023)

Roads in the Philippines are 11% deadlier than in Egypt

Egypt: 12.4 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 2.8 °C warmer than Egypt

Egypt: 23.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Philippines gets 246 times as much rain as Egypt

Egypt: 12 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg)