Ethiopia: 0 km (2026 edition) · Italy: 7,600 km (2026 edition)

Italy’s highest peak towers 198 m above Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: 4,550 m (2026 edition) · Italy: 4,748 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 44% of Italy, versus 34% of Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 34.3% (2024) · Italy: 43.6% (2024)

Ethiopia has 2.3 times as many people as Italy

Ethiopia: 135 million (2025) · Italy: 58.9 million (2025)

Italy is 65% more densely populated than Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 121 per km² (2025) · Italy: 199 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Italy is 29 years older than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 18.7 years (2023) · Italy: 47.5 years (2023)

Women in Ethiopia have 2.7 more children on average than in Italy

Ethiopia: 3.91 children per woman (2024) · Italy: 1.18 children per woman (2024)

25% of people in Italy are 65 or older, versus 3.3% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025) · Italy: 25.1% (2025)

Ethiopia hosts 2.3 times as many refugees per resident as Italy

Ethiopia: 7.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Italy: 3.3 per 1,000 (2025)

Italy has produced 3.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ethiopia 0.1

Ethiopia: 0.1 (2026) · Italy: 3.4 (2026)

Ethiopia and Italy are practically level

Ethiopia: 1 (2026) · Italy: 1 (2026)

Italy’s economy is 20 times the size of Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: $126 billion (2025) · Italy: $2.55 trillion (2025)

Italy produces 17 times as much per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Int$3,622 (2025) · Italy: Int$62,803 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Italy than in Ethiopia (Gini 3.2 points higher)

Ethiopia: 31.1 (2021) · Italy: 34.3 (2023)

39% of people in Ethiopia live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.9% in Italy

Ethiopia: 38.6% (2021) · Italy: 0.9% (2023)

Unemployment is 6.4% in Italy, versus 3.3% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025) · Italy: 6.4% (2025)

Italy spends 1.9% of its GDP on the military, Ethiopia 0.5%

Ethiopia: 0.5% (2025) · Italy: 1.9% (2025)

Italy’s central government collects 26% of GDP in tax, Ethiopia’s 3.4%

Ethiopia: 3.4% (2024) · Italy: 25.6% (2024)

Italy’s price level (US = 100) is 2.7× Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: 26% (2025) · Italy: 69% (2025)

Italy spends 98 times as much on health per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: $35 (2023) · Italy: $3,398 (2024)

A baby in Ethiopia is 15 times as likely to die before turning one as in Italy

Ethiopia: 34.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Italy: 2.3 per 1,000 (2024)

Italy has 29 times as many doctors per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.1 per 1,000 (2023) · Italy: 4.2 per 1,000 (2022)

Italy has 9.3 times as many hospital beds per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.3 per 1,000 (2016) · Italy: 3.1 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Ethiopia is 2.5 times that in Italy

Ethiopia: 14.4 per 100k (2023) · Italy: 5.7 per 100k (2023)

18% of adults in Italy are obese, versus 2.5% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.5% (2024) · Italy: 17.9% (2024)

22% of adults in Italy smoke, versus 5.2% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 5.2% (2024) · Italy: 22.4% (2024)

People in Italy rate their lives 2.59 points higher than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.99 (2025) · Italy: 6.57 (2025)

Adults in Italy drink 3.7 times as much alcohol as in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.3 litres (2023) · Italy: 8.4 litres (2023)

Italy has 10 times as much meat per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 6.9 kg (2023) · Italy: 71.2 kg (2023)

Italy has 1,194 kcal more food per person per day than Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2,558 kcal (2023) · Italy: 3,753 kcal (2023)

Workers in Italy put in 102 more hours a year than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 1,599 hours (2023) · Italy: 1,701 hours (2023)

Adults in Italy went to school 8.4 years longer than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.4 years (2023) · Italy: 10.8 years (2023)

Italy welcomed 241 times as many tourists per resident as Ethiopia (2019)

Ethiopia: 0.0041 (2024) · Italy: 0.98 (2024)

Italy has 50 more World Heritage sites than Ethiopia (62 against 12)

Ethiopia: 12 (2026) · Italy: 62 (2026)

Italy has won 829 Olympic medals, Ethiopia 62

Ethiopia: 62 (2026 edition) · Italy: 829 (2026 edition)

89% of people in Italy are online, versus 22% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 22% (2024) · Italy: 89% (2024)

Home internet in Italy is 13 times as fast as in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 22 Mbps (2026) · Italy: 274 Mbps (2026)

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

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

70% of people in Italy live in cities, versus 24% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 24% (2025) · Italy: 70% (2025)

Italy has 133 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ethiopia 65

Ethiopia: 65 (2024) · Italy: 133 (2024)

Italy’s railway network is 23 times as long as Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: 754 km (2018) · Italy: 17,305 km (2021)

Airlines from Italy fly 3.1 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.11 (2023) · Italy: 0.34 (2023)

Forest covers 32% of Italy, but only 24% of Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 23.8% (2024) · Italy: 31.8% (2024)

The average person in Italy emits 38 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.1 t (2024) · Italy: 5.1 t (2024)

100% of Ethiopia’s electricity is renewable, versus 49% in Italy

Ethiopia: 100% (2025) · Italy: 48.8% (2025)

The air in Ethiopia carries 33% more fine dust than in Italy

Ethiopia: 20.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Italy: 15.2 µg/m³ (2024)

Ethiopia: no data · Italy: 0.6 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Ethiopia are 2.8 times as deadly as in Italy

Ethiopia: 23.9 per 100k (2023) · Italy: 8.5 per 100k (2023)

Ethiopia is on average 10.0 °C warmer than Italy

Ethiopia: 23.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Italy: 13.9°C (2016–2025 avg)

Italy gets 7% more rain than Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 962 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Italy: 1,030 mm (2016–2025 avg)