Sweden’s coastline is 31% longer than Egypt’s

Egypt: 2,450 km (2026 edition) · Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition)

Egypt’s highest peak towers 529 m above Sweden’s

Egypt: 2,629 m (2026 edition) · Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 7.3% of Sweden, versus 4.2% of Egypt

Egypt: 4.2% (2024) · Sweden: 7.3% (2024)

Egypt has 11 times as many people as Sweden

Egypt: 118 million (2025) · Sweden: 10.6 million (2025)

Egypt is 4.6 times as densely populated as Sweden

Egypt: 119 per km² (2025) · Sweden: 26 per km² (2025)

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

Egypt: 24 years (2023) · Sweden: 39.9 years (2023)

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

Egypt: 2.74 children per woman (2024) · Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Sweden are 65 or older, versus 5.3% in Egypt

Egypt: 5.3% (2025) · Sweden: 20.9% (2025)

Sweden hosts 7.3 times as many refugees per resident as Egypt

Egypt: 1.9 per 1,000 (2025) · Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Sweden has produced 28.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Egypt 0.5

Egypt: 0.5 (2026) · Sweden: 28.3 (2026)

Egypt and Sweden are practically level

Egypt: 1 (2026) · Sweden: 1 (2026)

Sweden’s economy is 83% larger than Egypt’s

Egypt: $365 billion (2025) · Sweden: $669 billion (2025)

Sweden produces 3.6 times as much per person as Egypt

Egypt: Int$20,204 (2025) · Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Sweden than in Egypt (Gini 0.8 points higher)

Egypt: 28.5 (2021) · Sweden: 29.3 (2023)

1.4% of people in Egypt live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.8% in Sweden

Egypt: 1.4% (2021) · Sweden: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.7% in Sweden, versus 6.8% in Egypt

Egypt: 6.8% (2025) · Sweden: 8.7% (2025)

Sweden spends 2.5% of its GDP on the military, Egypt 0.6%

Egypt: 0.6% (2025) · Sweden: 2.5% (2025)

Sweden’s central government collects 27% of GDP in tax, Egypt’s 13%

Egypt: 12.5% (2015) · Sweden: 27.2% (2024)

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

Egypt: 15% (2025) · Sweden: 87% (2025)

Sweden spends 46 times as much on health per person as Egypt

Egypt: $141 (2023) · Sweden: $6,485 (2024)

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

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

Sweden has 6.6 times as many doctors per person as Egypt

Egypt: 0.7 per 1,000 (2020) · Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021)

Sweden has 79% more hospital beds per person than Egypt

Egypt: 1.1 per 1,000 (2021) · Sweden: 1.9 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Sweden is 16 times that in Egypt

Egypt: 0.8 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023)

43% of adults in Egypt are obese, versus 19% in Sweden

Egypt: 42.8% (2024) · Sweden: 18.7% (2024)

25% of adults in Egypt smoke, versus 20% in Sweden

Egypt: 25% (2024) · Sweden: 20.3% (2024)

People in Sweden rate their lives 3.39 points higher than in Egypt

Egypt: 3.86 (2025) · Sweden: 7.26 (2025)

Adults in Sweden drink 84 times as much alcohol as in Egypt

Egypt: 0.1 litres (2023) · Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023)

Sweden has 2.5 times as much meat per person as Egypt

Egypt: 27.6 kg (2023) · Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023)

Sweden has 273 kcal more food per person per day than Egypt

Egypt: 3,094 kcal (2023) · Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023)

Workers in Egypt put in 937 more hours a year than in Sweden

Egypt: 2,369 hours (2023) · Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023)

Adults in Sweden went to school 2.6 years longer than in Egypt

Egypt: 10.1 years (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 years (2023)

Sweden welcomed 6.1 times as many tourists per resident as Egypt (2019)

Egypt: 0.1 (2022) · Sweden: 0.63 (2022)

Sweden has 8 more World Heritage sites than Egypt (15 against 7)

Egypt: 7 (2026) · Sweden: 15 (2026)

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, Egypt 41

Egypt: 41 (2026 edition) · Sweden: 709 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Sweden are online, versus 75% in Egypt

Egypt: 75% (2024) · Sweden: 96% (2025)

Home internet in Sweden is 3.1 times as fast as in Egypt

Egypt: 80 Mbps (2026) · Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026)

Egypt and Sweden are practically level

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

89% of people in Sweden live in cities, versus 43% in Egypt

Egypt: 43% (2025) · Sweden: 89% (2025)

Sweden has 141 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Egypt 97

Egypt: 97 (2024) · Sweden: 141 (2024)

Sweden’s railway network is 89% longer than Egypt’s

Egypt: 5,153 km (2016) · Sweden: 9,714 km (2021)

Airlines from Sweden fly 13 times as many passengers per resident as those from Egypt

Egypt: 0.14 (2023) · Sweden: 1.85 (2023)

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 0.0% of Egypt

Egypt: 0% (2024) · Sweden: 68.6% (2024)

The average person in Sweden emits 62% more CO₂ than someone in Egypt

Egypt: 2.2 t (2024) · Sweden: 3.6 t (2024)

71% of Sweden’s electricity is renewable, versus 13% in Egypt

Egypt: 13% (2025) · Sweden: 71.2% (2025)

The air in Egypt carries 7.2 times as much fine dust as in Sweden

Egypt: 41.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 14% more likely to be murdered in Egypt than in Sweden

Egypt: 1.3 per 100k (2017) · Sweden: 1.1 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Egypt are 3.6 times as deadly as in Sweden

Egypt: 12.4 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023)

Egypt is on average 19.2 °C warmer than Sweden

Egypt: 23.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 4.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Sweden gets 66 times as much rain as Egypt

Egypt: 12 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 801 mm (2016–2025 avg)