Egypt’s coastline is 72% longer than Tanzania’s

Egypt: 2,450 km (2026 edition) · Tanzania: 1,424 km (2026 edition)

Tanzania’s highest peak towers 3,266 m above Egypt’s

Egypt: 2,629 m (2026 edition) · Tanzania: 5,895 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 45% of Tanzania, versus 4.2% of Egypt

Egypt: 4.2% (2024) · Tanzania: 45.1% (2024)

Egypt has 68% more people than Tanzania

Egypt: 118 million (2025) · Tanzania: 70.5 million (2025)

Egypt is 49% more densely populated than Tanzania

Egypt: 119 per km² (2025) · Tanzania: 80 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Egypt is 6.8 years older than in Tanzania

Egypt: 24 years (2023) · Tanzania: 17.2 years (2023)

Women in Tanzania have 1.8 more children on average than in Egypt

Egypt: 2.74 children per woman (2024) · Tanzania: 4.54 children per woman (2024)

5.3% of people in Egypt are 65 or older, versus 3.0% in Tanzania

Egypt: 5.3% (2025) · Tanzania: 3% (2025)

Tanzania hosts 31% more refugees per resident than Egypt

Egypt: 1.9 per 1,000 (2025) · Tanzania: 2.4 per 1,000 (2025)

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

Egypt: 0.5 (2026) · Tanzania: 0 (2026)

Tanzania has 2 official languages, Egypt 1

Egypt: 1 (2026) · Tanzania: 2 (2026)

Egypt’s economy is 4.1 times the size of Tanzania’s

Egypt: $365 billion (2025) · Tanzania: $90.1 billion (2025)

Egypt produces 4.5 times as much per person as Tanzania

Egypt: Int$20,204 (2025) · Tanzania: Int$4,471 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Tanzania than in Egypt (Gini 12 points higher)

Egypt: 28.5 (2021) · Tanzania: 40.5 (2018)

51% of people in Tanzania live on less than $3 a day, versus 1.4% in Egypt

Egypt: 1.4% (2021) · Tanzania: 51.3% (2018)

Unemployment is 6.8% in Egypt, versus 1.6% in Tanzania

Egypt: 6.8% (2025) · Tanzania: 1.6% (2025)

Tanzania spends 1.2% of its GDP on the military, Egypt 0.6%

Egypt: 0.6% (2025) · Tanzania: 1.2% (2025)

Egypt and Tanzania are practically level

Egypt: 12.5% (2015) · Tanzania: 12.3% (2024)

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

Egypt: 15% (2025) · Tanzania: 29% (2025)

Egypt spends 3.9 times as much on health per person as Tanzania

Egypt: $141 (2023) · Tanzania: $36 (2023)

A baby in Tanzania is 38% more likely to die before turning one than in Egypt

Egypt: 20.8 per 1,000 (2024) · Tanzania: 28.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Egypt has 5 times as many doctors per person as Tanzania

Egypt: 0.7 per 1,000 (2020) · Tanzania: 0.1 per 1,000 (2022)

Egypt has 26% more hospital beds per person than Tanzania

Egypt: 1.1 per 1,000 (2021) · Tanzania: 0.8 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Tanzania is 19 times that in Egypt

Egypt: 0.8 per 100k (2023) · Tanzania: 14.9 per 100k (2023)

43% of adults in Egypt are obese, versus 10% in Tanzania

Egypt: 42.8% (2024) · Tanzania: 10.5% (2024)

25% of adults in Egypt smoke, versus 7.7% in Tanzania

Egypt: 25% (2024) · Tanzania: 7.7% (2024)

People in Tanzania rate their lives 0.04 points higher than in Egypt

Egypt: 3.86 (2025) · Tanzania: 3.90 (2025)

Adults in Tanzania drink 14 times as much alcohol as in Egypt

Egypt: 0.1 litres (2023) · Tanzania: 1.5 litres (2023)

Egypt has 2.3 times as much meat per person as Tanzania

Egypt: 27.6 kg (2023) · Tanzania: 12.2 kg (2023)

Egypt has 576 kcal more food per person per day than Tanzania

Egypt: 3,094 kcal (2023) · Tanzania: 2,518 kcal (2023)

Workers in Egypt put in 240 more hours a year than in Tanzania

Egypt: 2,369 hours (2023) · Tanzania: 2,129 hours (2023)

Adults in Egypt went to school 4.1 years longer than in Tanzania

Egypt: 10.1 years (2023) · Tanzania: 6.1 years (2023)

Egypt welcomed 4.6 times as many tourists per resident as Tanzania (2019)

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

Egypt and Tanzania are practically level

Egypt: 7 (2026) · Tanzania: 7 (2026)

Egypt has won 41 Olympic medals, Tanzania 2

Egypt: 41 (2026 edition) · Tanzania: 2 (2026 edition)

75% of people in Egypt are online, versus 31% in Tanzania

Egypt: 75% (2024) · Tanzania: 31% (2024)

Home internet in Egypt is 43% faster than in Tanzania

Egypt: 80 Mbps (2026) · Tanzania: 56 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Egypt have electricity, versus 52% in Tanzania

Egypt: 100% (2024) · Tanzania: 52.4% (2024)

43% of people in Egypt live in cities, versus 37% in Tanzania

Egypt: 43% (2025) · Tanzania: 37% (2025)

Tanzania has 127 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Egypt 97

Egypt: 97 (2024) · Tanzania: 127 (2024)

Egypt’s railway network is 91% longer than Tanzania’s

Egypt: 5,153 km (2016) · Tanzania: 2,701 km (2017)

Airlines from Egypt fly 5.2 times as many passengers per resident as those from Tanzania

Egypt: 0.14 (2023) · Tanzania: 0.03 (2023)

Forest covers 50% of Tanzania, but only 0.0% of Egypt

Egypt: 0% (2024) · Tanzania: 49.6% (2024)

The average person in Egypt emits 7.6 times as much CO₂ as someone in Tanzania

Egypt: 2.2 t (2024) · Tanzania: 0.3 t (2024)

33% of Tanzania’s electricity is renewable, versus 13% in Egypt

Egypt: 13% (2025) · Tanzania: 32.9% (2024)

The air in Egypt carries 68% more fine dust than in Tanzania

Egypt: 41.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Tanzania: 24.6 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 2.9 times as likely to be murdered in Tanzania as in Egypt

Egypt: 1.3 per 100k (2017) · Tanzania: 3.7 per 100k (2020)

Roads in Tanzania are 62% deadlier than in Egypt

Egypt: 12.4 per 100k (2023) · Tanzania: 20.1 per 100k (2023)

Egypt is on average 0.4 °C warmer than Tanzania

Egypt: 23.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Tanzania: 23.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

Tanzania gets 90 times as much rain as Egypt

Egypt: 12 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Tanzania: 1,102 mm (2016–2025 avg)