Ethiopia: 0 km (2026 edition) · Saudi Arabia: 2,640 km (2026 edition)

Ethiopia’s highest peak towers 1,550 m above Saudi Arabia’s

Ethiopia: 4,550 m (2026 edition) · Saudi Arabia: 3,000 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 82% of Saudi Arabia, versus 34% of Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 34.3% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 81.7% (2024)

Ethiopia has 3.7 times as many people as Saudi Arabia

Ethiopia: 135 million (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 37 million (2025)

Ethiopia is 7 times as densely populated as Saudi Arabia

Ethiopia: 121 per km² (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 17 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Saudi Arabia is 11 years older than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 18.7 years (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 29.2 years (2023)

Women in Ethiopia have 1.6 more children on average than in Saudi Arabia

Ethiopia: 3.91 children per woman (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 2.31 children per woman (2024)

Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia are practically level

Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 3.1% (2025)

Ethiopia hosts 616 times as many refugees per resident as Saudi Arabia

Ethiopia: 7.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 0.012 per 1,000 (2025)

Ethiopia has produced 0.1 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Saudi Arabia none

Ethiopia: 0.1 (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 0 (2026)

Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia are practically level

Ethiopia: 1 (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 1 (2026)

Saudi Arabia’s economy is 10 times the size of Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: $126 billion (2025) · Saudi Arabia: $1.28 trillion (2025)

Saudi Arabia produces 20 times as much per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Int$3,622 (2025) · Saudi Arabia: Int$73,784 (2025)

Ethiopia: 31.1 (2021) · Saudi Arabia: no data

Ethiopia: 38.6% (2021) · Saudi Arabia: no data

Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia are practically level

Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 3% (2025)

Saudi Arabia spends 6.5% of its GDP on the military, Ethiopia 0.5%

Ethiopia: 0.5% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 6.5% (2025)

Saudi Arabia’s central government collects 8.1% of GDP in tax, Ethiopia’s 3.4%

Ethiopia: 3.4% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 8.1% (2024)

Saudi Arabia’s price level (US = 100) is 1.8× Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: 26% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 47% (2025)

Saudi Arabia spends 52 times as much on health per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: $35 (2023) · Saudi Arabia: $1,825 (2023)

A baby in Ethiopia is 7.3 times as likely to die before turning one as in Saudi Arabia

Ethiopia: 34.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 4.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Saudi Arabia has 24 times as many doctors per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.1 per 1,000 (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 3.4 per 1,000 (2023)

Saudi Arabia has 7.3 times as many hospital beds per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.3 per 1,000 (2016) · Saudi Arabia: 2.4 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Ethiopia is 6.5 times that in Saudi Arabia

Ethiopia: 14.4 per 100k (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 2.2 per 100k (2023)

39% of adults in Saudi Arabia are obese, versus 2.5% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.5% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 39.2% (2024)

15% of adults in Saudi Arabia smoke, versus 5.2% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 5.2% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 14.7% (2024)

People in Saudi Arabia rate their lives 2.83 points higher than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.99 (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 6.82 (2025)

Ethiopia: 2.3 litres (2023) · Saudi Arabia: no data

Saudi Arabia has 8.4 times as much meat per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 6.9 kg (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 58.1 kg (2023)

Saudi Arabia has 1,101 kcal more food per person per day than Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2,558 kcal (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 3,660 kcal (2023)

Workers in Saudi Arabia put in 525 more hours a year than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 1,599 hours (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 2,125 hours (2023)

Adults in Saudi Arabia went to school 9.2 years longer than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.4 years (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 11.6 years (2023)

Saudi Arabia welcomed 207 times as many tourists per resident as Ethiopia (2019)

Ethiopia: 0.0041 (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 0.84 (2024)

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

Ethiopia: 12 (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 8 (2026)

Ethiopia has won 62 Olympic medals, Saudi Arabia 4

Ethiopia: 62 (2026 edition) · Saudi Arabia: 4 (2026 edition)

100% of people in Saudi Arabia are online, versus 22% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 22% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 100% (2024)

Home internet in Saudi Arabia is 9.1 times as fast as in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 22 Mbps (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 196 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Saudi Arabia have electricity, versus 57% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 56.6% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 100% (2024)

85% of people in Saudi Arabia live in cities, versus 24% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 24% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 85% (2025)

Saudi Arabia has 160 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ethiopia 65

Ethiopia: 65 (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 160 (2024)

Saudi Arabia’s railway network is 3.9 times as long as Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: 754 km (2018) · Saudi Arabia: 2,939 km (2018)

Airlines from Saudi Arabia fly 12 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.11 (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 1.3 (2023)

Forest covers 24% of Ethiopia, but only 1.3% of Saudi Arabia

Ethiopia: 23.8% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 1.3% (2024)

The average person in Saudi Arabia emits 151 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.1 t (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 20.4 t (2024)

100% of Ethiopia’s electricity is renewable, versus 2.2% in Saudi Arabia

Ethiopia: 100% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 2.2% (2024)

The air in Saudi Arabia carries 2.5 times as much fine dust as in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 20.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 50.4 µg/m³ (2024)

Ethiopia: no data · Saudi Arabia: 0.9 per 100k (2019)

Roads in Ethiopia are 12% deadlier than in Saudi Arabia

Ethiopia: 23.9 per 100k (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 21.4 per 100k (2023)

Saudi Arabia is on average 2.9 °C warmer than Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 23.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Saudi Arabia: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Ethiopia gets 16 times as much rain as Saudi Arabia

Ethiopia: 962 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Saudi Arabia: 61 mm (2016–2025 avg)