Ethiopia: 0 km (2026 edition) · Pakistan: 1,046 km (2026 edition)

Pakistan’s highest peak towers 4,061 m above Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: 4,550 m (2026 edition) · Pakistan: 8,611 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 47% of Pakistan, versus 34% of Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 34.3% (2024) · Pakistan: 47.2% (2024)

Pakistan has 88% more people than Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 135 million (2025) · Pakistan: 255 million (2025)

Pakistan is 2.7 times as densely populated as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 121 per km² (2025) · Pakistan: 331 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Pakistan is 1.6 years older than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 18.7 years (2023) · Pakistan: 20.3 years (2023)

Women in Ethiopia have 0.4 more children on average than in Pakistan

Ethiopia: 3.91 children per woman (2024) · Pakistan: 3.55 children per woman (2024)

4.4% of people in Pakistan are 65 or older, versus 3.3% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025) · Pakistan: 4.4% (2025)

Ethiopia hosts 64% more refugees per resident than Pakistan

Ethiopia: 7.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Pakistan: 4.5 per 1,000 (2025)

Pakistan has produced 0.1 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ethiopia 0.1

Ethiopia: 0.1 (2026) · Pakistan: 0.1 (2026)

Pakistan has 2 official languages, Ethiopia 1

Ethiopia: 1 (2026) · Pakistan: 2 (2026)

Pakistan’s economy is 3.2 times the size of Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: $126 billion (2025) · Pakistan: $407 billion (2025)

Pakistan produces 82% more per person than Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Int$3,622 (2025) · Pakistan: Int$6,573 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Pakistan than in Ethiopia (Gini 2.4 points higher)

Ethiopia: 31.1 (2021) · Pakistan: 33.5 (2024)

39% of people in Ethiopia live on less than $3 a day, versus 23% in Pakistan

Ethiopia: 38.6% (2021) · Pakistan: 23% (2024)

Unemployment is 5.4% in Pakistan, versus 3.3% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025) · Pakistan: 5.4% (2025)

Pakistan spends 2.9% of its GDP on the military, Ethiopia 0.5%

Ethiopia: 0.5% (2025) · Pakistan: 2.9% (2025)

Ethiopia: 3.4% (2024) · Pakistan: no data

Ethiopia’s price level (US = 100) is 1.1× Pakistan’s

Ethiopia: 26% (2025) · Pakistan: 24% (2025)

Ethiopia spends 14% more on health per person than Pakistan

Ethiopia: $35 (2023) · Pakistan: $30 (2023)

A baby in Pakistan is 40% more likely to die before turning one than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 34.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Pakistan: 48.2 per 1,000 (2024)

Pakistan has 8.1 times as many doctors per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.1 per 1,000 (2023) · Pakistan: 1.2 per 1,000 (2021)

Pakistan has 91% more hospital beds per person than Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.3 per 1,000 (2016) · Pakistan: 0.6 per 1,000 (2020)

The suicide rate in Ethiopia is 58% higher than in Pakistan

Ethiopia: 14.4 per 100k (2023) · Pakistan: 9.1 per 100k (2023)

24% of adults in Pakistan are obese, versus 2.5% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.5% (2024) · Pakistan: 23.5% (2024)

18% of adults in Pakistan smoke, versus 5.2% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 5.2% (2024) · Pakistan: 17.9% (2024)

People in Pakistan rate their lives 0.88 points higher than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.99 (2025) · Pakistan: 4.87 (2025)

Adults in Ethiopia drink 26 times as much alcohol as in Pakistan

Ethiopia: 2.3 litres (2023) · Pakistan: 0.1 litres (2023)

Pakistan has 3.1 times as much meat per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 6.9 kg (2023) · Pakistan: 21.2 kg (2023)

Ethiopia has 45 kcal more food per person per day than Pakistan

Ethiopia: 2,558 kcal (2023) · Pakistan: 2,514 kcal (2023)

Workers in Pakistan put in 872 more hours a year than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 1,599 hours (2023) · Pakistan: 2,471 hours (2023)

Adults in Pakistan went to school 1.9 years longer than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.4 years (2023) · Pakistan: 4.3 years (2023)

Ethiopia: 0.0041 (2024) · Pakistan: no data

Ethiopia has 6 more World Heritage sites than Pakistan (12 against 6)

Ethiopia: 12 (2026) · Pakistan: 6 (2026)

Ethiopia has won 62 Olympic medals, Pakistan 11

Ethiopia: 62 (2026 edition) · Pakistan: 11 (2026 edition)

57% of people in Pakistan are online, versus 22% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 22% (2024) · Pakistan: 57% (2024)

Home internet in Pakistan is 10% faster than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 22 Mbps (2026) · Pakistan: 24 Mbps (2026)

96% of people in Pakistan have electricity, versus 57% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 56.6% (2024) · Pakistan: 95.7% (2024)

40% of people in Pakistan live in cities, versus 24% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 24% (2025) · Pakistan: 40% (2025)

Pakistan has 77 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ethiopia 65

Ethiopia: 65 (2024) · Pakistan: 77 (2024)

Pakistan’s railway network is 10 times as long as Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: 754 km (2018) · Pakistan: 7,791 km (2019)

Airlines from Ethiopia fly 4 times as many passengers per resident as those from Pakistan

Ethiopia: 0.11 (2023) · Pakistan: 0.03 (2023)

Forest covers 24% of Ethiopia, but only 4.1% of Pakistan

Ethiopia: 23.8% (2024) · Pakistan: 4.1% (2024)

The average person in Pakistan emits 5.3 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.1 t (2024) · Pakistan: 0.7 t (2024)

100% of Ethiopia’s electricity is renewable, versus 43% in Pakistan

Ethiopia: 100% (2025) · Pakistan: 42.7% (2025)

The air in Pakistan carries 2.7 times as much fine dust as in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 20.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Pakistan: 53.8 µg/m³ (2024)

Ethiopia: no data · Pakistan: 4.3 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Ethiopia are 43% deadlier than in Pakistan

Ethiopia: 23.9 per 100k (2023) · Pakistan: 16.7 per 100k (2023)

Ethiopia is on average 2.9 °C warmer than Pakistan

Ethiopia: 23.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Pakistan: 21°C (2016–2025 avg)

Ethiopia gets 2.3 times as much rain as Pakistan

Ethiopia: 962 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Pakistan: 416 mm (2016–2025 avg)