Ethiopia: 0 km (2026 edition) · Spain: 4,964 km (2026 edition)

Ethiopia’s highest peak towers 832 m above Spain’s

Ethiopia: 4,550 m (2026 edition) · Spain: 3,718 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 49% of Spain, versus 34% of Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 34.3% (2024) · Spain: 49.3% (2024)

Ethiopia has 2.7 times as many people as Spain

Ethiopia: 135 million (2025) · Spain: 49.4 million (2025)

Ethiopia is 22% more densely populated than Spain

Ethiopia: 121 per km² (2025) · Spain: 99 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Spain is 26 years older than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 18.7 years (2023) · Spain: 44.9 years (2023)

Women in Ethiopia have 2.8 more children on average than in Spain

Ethiopia: 3.91 children per woman (2024) · Spain: 1.1 children per woman (2024)

22% of people in Spain are 65 or older, versus 3.3% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025) · Spain: 21.6% (2025)

Spain hosts 39% more refugees per resident than Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 7.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Spain: 10.4 per 1,000 (2025)

Spain has produced 1.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ethiopia 0.1

Ethiopia: 0.1 (2026) · Spain: 1.4 (2026)

Ethiopia and Spain are practically level

Ethiopia: 1 (2026) · Spain: 1 (2026)

Spain’s economy is 15 times the size of Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: $126 billion (2025) · Spain: $1.91 trillion (2025)

Spain produces 17 times as much per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Int$3,622 (2025) · Spain: Int$59,868 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Spain than in Ethiopia (Gini 2.3 points higher)

Ethiopia: 31.1 (2021) · Spain: 33.4 (2023)

39% of people in Ethiopia live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.8% in Spain

Ethiopia: 38.6% (2021) · Spain: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 10% in Spain, versus 3.3% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025) · Spain: 10.4% (2025)

Spain spends 2.1% of its GDP on the military, Ethiopia 0.5%

Ethiopia: 0.5% (2025) · Spain: 2.1% (2025)

Spain’s central government collects 15% of GDP in tax, Ethiopia’s 3.4%

Ethiopia: 3.4% (2024) · Spain: 14.9% (2024)

Spain’s price level (US = 100) is 2.5× Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: 26% (2025) · Spain: 65% (2025)

Spain spends 89 times as much on health per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: $35 (2023) · Spain: $3,107 (2023)

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

Ethiopia: 34.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Spain: 2.6 per 1,000 (2024)

Spain has 30 times as many doctors per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.1 per 1,000 (2023) · Spain: 4.3 per 1,000 (2022)

Spain has 8.8 times as many hospital beds per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.3 per 1,000 (2016) · Spain: 2.9 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Ethiopia is 2 times that in Spain

Ethiopia: 14.4 per 100k (2023) · Spain: 7.1 per 100k (2023)

19% of adults in Spain are obese, versus 2.5% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.5% (2024) · Spain: 18.9% (2024)

28% of adults in Spain smoke, versus 5.2% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 5.2% (2024) · Spain: 27.6% (2024)

People in Spain rate their lives 2.56 points higher than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.99 (2025) · Spain: 6.54 (2025)

Adults in Spain drink 5.3 times as much alcohol as in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.3 litres (2023) · Spain: 12.1 litres (2023)

Spain has 15 times as much meat per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 6.9 kg (2023) · Spain: 100.8 kg (2023)

Spain has 819 kcal more food per person per day than Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2,558 kcal (2023) · Spain: 3,377 kcal (2023)

Workers in Spain put in 39 more hours a year than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 1,599 hours (2023) · Spain: 1,638 hours (2023)

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

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

Spain welcomed 473 times as many tourists per resident as Ethiopia (2019)

Ethiopia: 0.0041 (2024) · Spain: 1.92 (2024)

Spain has 38 more World Heritage sites than Ethiopia (50 against 12)

Ethiopia: 12 (2026) · Spain: 50 (2026)

Spain has won 195 Olympic medals, Ethiopia 62

Ethiopia: 62 (2026 edition) · Spain: 195 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Spain are online, versus 22% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 22% (2024) · Spain: 96% (2024)

Home internet in Spain is 15 times as fast as in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 22 Mbps (2026) · Spain: 324 Mbps (2026)

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

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

81% of people in Spain live in cities, versus 24% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 24% (2025) · Spain: 81% (2025)

Spain has 130 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ethiopia 65

Ethiopia: 65 (2024) · Spain: 130 (2024)

Spain’s railway network is 21 times as long as Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: 754 km (2018) · Spain: 15,963 km (2021)

Airlines from Spain fly 17 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.11 (2023) · Spain: 1.91 (2023)

Forest covers 38% of Spain, but only 24% of Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 23.8% (2024) · Spain: 38.2% (2024)

The average person in Spain emits 34 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.1 t (2024) · Spain: 4.6 t (2024)

100% of Ethiopia’s electricity is renewable, versus 56% in Spain

Ethiopia: 100% (2025) · Spain: 55.9% (2025)

The air in Ethiopia carries 2 times as much fine dust as in Spain

Ethiopia: 20.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Spain: 10 µg/m³ (2024)

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

Roads in Ethiopia are 3.9 times as deadly as in Spain

Ethiopia: 23.9 per 100k (2023) · Spain: 6.2 per 100k (2023)

Ethiopia is on average 9.1 °C warmer than Spain

Ethiopia: 23.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Spain: 14.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Ethiopia gets 45% more rain than Spain

Ethiopia: 962 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Spain: 665 mm (2016–2025 avg)