Egypt’s coastline is 83% longer than Sri Lanka’s

Egypt: 2,450 km (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 1,340 km (2026 edition)

Egypt’s highest peak towers 105 m above Sri Lanka’s

Egypt: 2,629 m (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2,524 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 49% of Sri Lanka, versus 4.2% of Egypt

Egypt: 4.2% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 48.8% (2024)

Egypt has 5.4 times as many people as Sri Lanka

Egypt: 118 million (2025) · Sri Lanka: 21.8 million (2025)

Sri Lanka is 3 times as densely populated as Egypt

Egypt: 119 per km² (2025) · Sri Lanka: 352 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sri Lanka is 8.8 years older than in Egypt

Egypt: 24 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 32.8 years (2023)

Women in Egypt have 0.8 more children on average than in Sri Lanka

Egypt: 2.74 children per woman (2024) · Sri Lanka: 1.95 children per woman (2024)

12% of people in Sri Lanka are 65 or older, versus 5.3% in Egypt

Egypt: 5.3% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 12.5% (2025)

Egypt hosts 190 times as many refugees per resident as Sri Lanka

Egypt: 1.9 per 1,000 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 0.0098 per 1,000 (2025)

Egypt has produced 0.5 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Sri Lanka none

Egypt: 0.5 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 0 (2026)

Sri Lanka has 2 official languages, Egypt 1

Egypt: 1 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026)

Egypt’s economy is 3.4 times the size of Sri Lanka’s

Egypt: $365 billion (2025) · Sri Lanka: $109 billion (2025)

Egypt produces 18% more per person than Sri Lanka

Egypt: Int$20,204 (2025) · Sri Lanka: Int$17,065 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Sri Lanka than in Egypt (Gini 9.2 points higher)

Egypt: 28.5 (2021) · Sri Lanka: 37.7 (2019)

2.7% of people in Sri Lanka live on less than $3 a day, versus 1.4% in Egypt

Egypt: 1.4% (2021) · Sri Lanka: 2.7% (2019)

Unemployment is 6.8% in Egypt, versus 4.0% in Sri Lanka

Egypt: 6.8% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4% (2025)

Sri Lanka spends 1.3% of its GDP on the military, Egypt 0.6%

Egypt: 0.6% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 1.3% (2025)

Egypt’s central government collects 13% of GDP in tax, Sri Lanka’s 9.9%

Egypt: 12.5% (2015) · Sri Lanka: 9.9% (2023)

Sri Lanka’s price level (US = 100) is 1.9× Egypt’s

Egypt: 15% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 29% (2025)

Egypt spends 5% more on health per person than Sri Lanka

Egypt: $141 (2023) · Sri Lanka: $134 (2023)

A baby in Egypt is 4 times as likely to die before turning one as in Sri Lanka

Egypt: 20.8 per 1,000 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 5.2 per 1,000 (2024)

Sri Lanka has 69% more doctors per person than Egypt

Egypt: 0.7 per 1,000 (2020) · Sri Lanka: 1.1 per 1,000 (2023)

Sri Lanka has 3.7 times as many hospital beds per person as Egypt

Egypt: 1.1 per 1,000 (2021) · Sri Lanka: 3.9 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Sri Lanka is 18 times that in Egypt

Egypt: 0.8 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 14 per 100k (2023)

43% of adults in Egypt are obese, versus 11% in Sri Lanka

Egypt: 42.8% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 11.2% (2024)

25% of adults in Egypt smoke, versus 21% in Sri Lanka

Egypt: 25% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7% (2024)

People in Sri Lanka rate their lives 0.15 points higher than in Egypt

Egypt: 3.86 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4.01 (2025)

Adults in Sri Lanka drink 24 times as much alcohol as in Egypt

Egypt: 0.1 litres (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2.5 litres (2023)

Egypt has 2.4 times as much meat per person as Sri Lanka

Egypt: 27.6 kg (2023) · Sri Lanka: 11.6 kg (2023)

Egypt has 419 kcal more food per person per day than Sri Lanka

Egypt: 3,094 kcal (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,675 kcal (2023)

Workers in Egypt put in 315 more hours a year than in Sri Lanka

Egypt: 2,369 hours (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,053 hours (2023)

Adults in Sri Lanka went to school 0.63 years longer than in Egypt

Egypt: 10.1 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 10.8 years (2023)

Egypt welcomed 3.2 times as many tourists per resident as Sri Lanka (2019)

Egypt: 0.1 (2022) · Sri Lanka: 0.03 (2022)

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

Egypt: 7 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 8 (2026)

Egypt has won 41 Olympic medals, Sri Lanka 2

Egypt: 41 (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026 edition)

75% of people in Egypt are online, versus 55% in Sri Lanka

Egypt: 75% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 55% (2024)

Home internet in Egypt is 29% faster than in Sri Lanka

Egypt: 80 Mbps (2026) · Sri Lanka: 63 Mbps (2026)

Egypt and Sri Lanka are practically level

Egypt: 100% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 100% (2024)

43% of people in Egypt live in cities, versus 20% in Sri Lanka

Egypt: 43% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 20% (2025)

Sri Lanka has 133 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Egypt 97

Egypt: 97 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 133 (2024)

Egypt’s railway network is 3.3 times as long as Sri Lanka’s

Egypt: 5,153 km (2016) · Sri Lanka: 1,562 km (2019)

Airlines from Sri Lanka fly 26% more passengers per resident than those from Egypt

Egypt: 0.14 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 0.18 (2023)

Forest covers 34% of Sri Lanka, but only 0.0% of Egypt

Egypt: 0% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 34.4% (2024)

The average person in Egypt emits 2.5 times as much CO₂ as someone in Sri Lanka

Egypt: 2.2 t (2024) · Sri Lanka: 0.9 t (2024)

62% of Sri Lanka’s electricity is renewable, versus 13% in Egypt

Egypt: 13% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 61.6% (2025)

The air in Egypt carries 2 times as much fine dust as in Sri Lanka

Egypt: 41.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 2.5 times as likely to be murdered in Sri Lanka as in Egypt

Egypt: 1.3 per 100k (2017) · Sri Lanka: 3.3 per 100k (2019)

Roads in Sri Lanka are 70% deadlier than in Egypt

Egypt: 12.4 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 21.1 per 100k (2023)

Sri Lanka is on average 3.3 °C warmer than Egypt

Egypt: 23.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Sri Lanka gets 151 times as much rain as Egypt

Egypt: 12 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 1,839 mm (2016–2025 avg)