Ethiopia: 0 km (2026 edition) · Norway: 25,148 km (2026 edition)

Ethiopia’s highest peak towers 2,081 m above Norway’s

Ethiopia: 4,550 m (2026 edition) · Norway: 2,469 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 34% of Ethiopia, versus 2.7% of Norway

Ethiopia: 34.3% (2024) · Norway: 2.7% (2024)

Ethiopia has 24 times as many people as Norway

Ethiopia: 135 million (2025) · Norway: 5.61 million (2025)

Ethiopia is 7.8 times as densely populated as Norway

Ethiopia: 121 per km² (2025) · Norway: 15 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Norway is 21 years older than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 18.7 years (2023) · Norway: 39.5 years (2023)

Women in Ethiopia have 2.5 more children on average than in Norway

Ethiopia: 3.91 children per woman (2024) · Norway: 1.45 children per woman (2024)

19% of people in Norway are 65 or older, versus 3.3% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025) · Norway: 19.1% (2025)

Norway hosts 3 times as many refugees per resident as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 7.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Norway: 22.1 per 1,000 (2025)

Norway has produced 23.2 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ethiopia 0.1

Ethiopia: 0.1 (2026) · Norway: 23.2 (2026)

Norway has 3 official languages, Ethiopia 1

Ethiopia: 1 (2026) · Norway: 3 (2026)

Norway’s economy is 4.2 times the size of Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: $126 billion (2025) · Norway: $531 billion (2025)

Norway produces 29 times as much per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Int$3,622 (2025) · Norway: Int$104,044 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Ethiopia than in Norway (Gini 4.6 points higher)

Ethiopia: 31.1 (2021) · Norway: 26.5 (2023)

39% of people in Ethiopia live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.2% in Norway

Ethiopia: 38.6% (2021) · Norway: 0.2% (2023)

Unemployment is 4.6% in Norway, versus 3.3% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025) · Norway: 4.6% (2025)

Norway spends 3.3% of its GDP on the military, Ethiopia 0.5%

Ethiopia: 0.5% (2025) · Norway: 3.3% (2025)

Norway’s central government collects 25% of GDP in tax, Ethiopia’s 3.4%

Ethiopia: 3.4% (2024) · Norway: 24.5% (2024)

Norway’s price level (US = 100) is 3.5× Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: 26% (2025) · Norway: 91% (2025)

Norway spends 238 times as much on health per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: $35 (2023) · Norway: $8,296 (2023)

A baby in Ethiopia is 17 times as likely to die before turning one as in Norway

Ethiopia: 34.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Norway: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Norway has 35 times as many doctors per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.1 per 1,000 (2023) · Norway: 5 per 1,000 (2023)

Norway has 10 times as many hospital beds per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.3 per 1,000 (2016) · Norway: 3.3 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Ethiopia is 24% higher than in Norway

Ethiopia: 14.4 per 100k (2023) · Norway: 11.6 per 100k (2023)

21% of adults in Norway are obese, versus 2.5% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.5% (2024) · Norway: 20.7% (2024)

13% of adults in Norway smoke, versus 5.2% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 5.2% (2024) · Norway: 12.9% (2024)

People in Norway rate their lives 3.26 points higher than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.99 (2025) · Norway: 7.24 (2025)

Adults in Norway drink 3.1 times as much alcohol as in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.3 litres (2023) · Norway: 7 litres (2023)

Norway has 10 times as much meat per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 6.9 kg (2023) · Norway: 70.4 kg (2023)

Norway has 917 kcal more food per person per day than Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2,558 kcal (2023) · Norway: 3,476 kcal (2023)

Workers in Ethiopia put in 187 more hours a year than in Norway

Ethiopia: 1,599 hours (2023) · Norway: 1,412 hours (2023)

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

Ethiopia: 2.4 years (2023) · Norway: 13.1 years (2023)

Norway welcomed 225 times as many tourists per resident as Ethiopia (2019)

Ethiopia: 0.0041 (2024) · Norway: 0.91 (2022)

Ethiopia has 4 more World Heritage sites than Norway (12 against 8)

Ethiopia: 12 (2026) · Norway: 8 (2026)

Norway has won 616 Olympic medals, Ethiopia 62

Ethiopia: 62 (2026 edition) · Norway: 616 (2026 edition)

99% of people in Norway are online, versus 22% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 22% (2024) · Norway: 99% (2024)

Home internet in Norway is 11 times as fast as in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 22 Mbps (2026) · Norway: 228 Mbps (2026)

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

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

84% of people in Norway live in cities, versus 24% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 24% (2025) · Norway: 84% (2025)

Norway has 109 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ethiopia 65

Ethiopia: 65 (2024) · Norway: 109 (2024)

Norway’s railway network is 5.2 times as long as Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: 754 km (2018) · Norway: 3,885 km (2021)

Ethiopia: 0.11 (2023) · Norway: no data

Forest covers 33% of Norway, but only 24% of Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 23.8% (2024) · Norway: 33.2% (2024)

The average person in Norway emits 49 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.1 t (2024) · Norway: 6.7 t (2024)

100% of Ethiopia’s electricity is renewable, versus 99% in Norway

Ethiopia: 100% (2025) · Norway: 99% (2025)

The air in Ethiopia carries 3 times as much fine dust as in Norway

Ethiopia: 20.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Norway: 6.7 µg/m³ (2024)

Ethiopia: no data · Norway: 0.7 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Ethiopia are 8.2 times as deadly as in Norway

Ethiopia: 23.9 per 100k (2023) · Norway: 2.9 per 100k (2023)

Ethiopia is on average 22.3 °C warmer than Norway

Ethiopia: 23.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Norway: 1.6°C (2016–2025 avg)

Norway gets 31% more rain than Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 962 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Norway: 1,259 mm (2016–2025 avg)