Ethiopia: 0 km (2026 edition) · Israel: 273 km (2026 edition)

Ethiopia’s highest peak towers 2,314 m above Israel’s

Ethiopia: 4,550 m (2026 edition) · Israel: 2,236 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 34% of Ethiopia, versus 24% of Israel

Ethiopia: 34.3% (2024) · Israel: 23.8% (2024)

Ethiopia has 13 times as many people as Israel

Ethiopia: 135 million (2025) · Israel: 10.1 million (2025)

Israel is 3.9 times as densely populated as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 121 per km² (2025) · Israel: 468 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Israel is 10 years older than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 18.7 years (2023) · Israel: 29.2 years (2023)

Women in Ethiopia have 1.0 more children on average than in Israel

Ethiopia: 3.91 children per woman (2024) · Israel: 2.87 children per woman (2024)

13% of people in Israel are 65 or older, versus 3.3% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025) · Israel: 12.7% (2025)

Ethiopia hosts 59 times as many refugees per resident as Israel

Ethiopia: 7.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Israel: 0.1 per 1,000 (2025)

Israel has produced 5.9 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ethiopia 0.1

Ethiopia: 0.1 (2026) · Israel: 5.9 (2026)

Israel has 2 official languages, Ethiopia 1

Ethiopia: 1 (2026) · Israel: 2 (2026)

Israel’s economy is 4.8 times the size of Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: $126 billion (2025) · Israel: $611 billion (2025)

Israel produces 16 times as much per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Int$3,622 (2025) · Israel: Int$59,717 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Israel than in Ethiopia (Gini 7.2 points higher)

Ethiopia: 31.1 (2021) · Israel: 38.3 (2022)

39% of people in Ethiopia live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.4% in Israel

Ethiopia: 38.6% (2021) · Israel: 0.4% (2022)

Israel and Ethiopia are practically level

Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025) · Israel: 3.5% (2025)

Israel spends 7.8% of its GDP on the military, Ethiopia 0.5%

Ethiopia: 0.5% (2025) · Israel: 7.8% (2025)

Israel’s central government collects 23% of GDP in tax, Ethiopia’s 3.4%

Ethiopia: 3.4% (2024) · Israel: 23.2% (2024)

Israel’s price level (US = 100) is 3.9× Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: 26% (2025) · Israel: 101% (2025)

Israel spends 113 times as much on health per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: $35 (2023) · Israel: $3,928 (2023)

A baby in Ethiopia is 13 times as likely to die before turning one as in Israel

Ethiopia: 34.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Israel: 2.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Israel has 27 times as many doctors per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.1 per 1,000 (2023) · Israel: 3.8 per 1,000 (2023)

Israel has 9.5 times as many hospital beds per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.3 per 1,000 (2016) · Israel: 3.1 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Ethiopia is 2.1 times that in Israel

Ethiopia: 14.4 per 100k (2023) · Israel: 6.9 per 100k (2023)

23% of adults in Israel are obese, versus 2.5% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.5% (2024) · Israel: 23.3% (2024)

21% of adults in Israel smoke, versus 5.2% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 5.2% (2024) · Israel: 21.2% (2024)

People in Israel rate their lives 3.20 points higher than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.99 (2025) · Israel: 7.19 (2025)

Adults in Israel drink 85% more alcohol than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.3 litres (2023) · Israel: 4.2 litres (2023)

Israel has 16 times as much meat per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 6.9 kg (2023) · Israel: 108.7 kg (2023)

Israel has 1,195 kcal more food per person per day than Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2,558 kcal (2023) · Israel: 3,754 kcal (2023)

Workers in Israel put in 291 more hours a year than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 1,599 hours (2023) · Israel: 1,890 hours (2023)

Adults in Israel went to school 11 years longer than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.4 years (2023) · Israel: 13.5 years (2023)

Israel welcomed 24 times as many tourists per resident as Ethiopia (2019)

Ethiopia: 0.0041 (2024) · Israel: 0.1 (2024)

Ethiopia has 3 more World Heritage sites than Israel (12 against 9)

Ethiopia: 12 (2026) · Israel: 9 (2026)

Ethiopia has won 62 Olympic medals, Israel 20

Ethiopia: 62 (2026 edition) · Israel: 20 (2026 edition)

88% of people in Israel are online, versus 22% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 22% (2024) · Israel: 88% (2024)

Home internet in Israel is 18 times as fast as in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 22 Mbps (2026) · Israel: 392 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Israel have electricity, versus 57% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 56.6% (2024) · Israel: 100% (2024)

92% of people in Israel live in cities, versus 24% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 24% (2025) · Israel: 92% (2025)

Israel has 177 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ethiopia 65

Ethiopia: 65 (2024) · Israel: 177 (2024)

Israel’s railway network is 2.3 times as long as Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: 754 km (2018) · Israel: 1,720 km (2021)

Airlines from Israel fly 6.5 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.11 (2023) · Israel: 0.73 (2023)

Forest covers 24% of Ethiopia, but only 6.8% of Israel

Ethiopia: 23.8% (2024) · Israel: 6.8% (2024)

The average person in Israel emits 42 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.1 t (2024) · Israel: 5.6 t (2024)

100% of Ethiopia’s electricity is renewable, versus 17% in Israel

Ethiopia: 100% (2025) · Israel: 16.9% (2025)

Israel and Ethiopia are nearly identical here

Ethiopia: 20.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Israel: 20.4 µg/m³ (2024)

Ethiopia: no data · Israel: 1.6 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Ethiopia are 3.5 times as deadly as in Israel

Ethiopia: 23.9 per 100k (2023) · Israel: 6.8 per 100k (2023)

Ethiopia is on average 2.8 °C warmer than Israel

Ethiopia: 23.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Israel: 21.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

Ethiopia gets 4.7 times as much rain as Israel

Ethiopia: 962 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Israel: 205 mm (2016–2025 avg)