Greece’s coastline is 10 times as long as Sri Lanka’s

Greece: 13,676 km (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 1,340 km (2026 edition)

Greece’s highest peak towers 393 m above Sri Lanka’s

Greece: 2,917 m (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2,524 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 49% of Sri Lanka, versus 39% of Greece

Greece: 38.9% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 48.8% (2024)

Sri Lanka has 2.1 times as many people as Greece

Greece: 10.4 million (2025) · Sri Lanka: 21.8 million (2025)

Sri Lanka is 4.4 times as densely populated as Greece

Greece: 81 per km² (2025) · Sri Lanka: 352 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Greece is 13 years older than in Sri Lanka

Greece: 45.7 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 32.8 years (2023)

Women in Sri Lanka have 0.7 more children on average than in Greece

Greece: 1.24 children per woman (2024) · Sri Lanka: 1.95 children per woman (2024)

24% of people in Greece are 65 or older, versus 12% in Sri Lanka

Greece: 24.4% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 12.5% (2025)

Greece hosts 1,320 times as many refugees per resident as Sri Lanka

Greece: 12.9 per 1,000 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 0.0098 per 1,000 (2025)

Greece has produced 1.0 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Sri Lanka none

Greece: 1 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 0 (2026)

Sri Lanka has 2 official languages, Greece 1

Greece: 1 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026)

Greece’s economy is 2.6 times the size of Sri Lanka’s

Greece: $281 billion (2025) · Sri Lanka: $109 billion (2025)

Greece produces 2.7 times as much per person as Sri Lanka

Greece: Int$45,264 (2025) · Sri Lanka: Int$17,065 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Sri Lanka than in Greece (Gini 4.3 points higher)

Greece: 33.4 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 37.7 (2019)

2.7% of people in Sri Lanka live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.6% in Greece

Greece: 0.6% (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2.7% (2019)

Unemployment is 8.5% in Greece, versus 4.0% in Sri Lanka

Greece: 8.5% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4% (2025)

Greece spends 3.0% of its GDP on the military, Sri Lanka 1.3%

Greece: 3% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 1.3% (2025)

Greece’s central government collects 27% of GDP in tax, Sri Lanka’s 9.9%

Greece: 27.4% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 9.9% (2023)

Greece’s price level (US = 100) is 2× Sri Lanka’s

Greece: 60% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 29% (2025)

Greece spends 15 times as much on health per person as Sri Lanka

Greece: $1,963 (2023) · Sri Lanka: $134 (2023)

A baby in Sri Lanka is 63% more likely to die before turning one than in Greece

Greece: 3.2 per 1,000 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 5.2 per 1,000 (2024)

Greece has 5.8 times as many doctors per person as Sri Lanka

Greece: 6.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Sri Lanka: 1.1 per 1,000 (2023)

Greece has 9% more hospital beds per person than Sri Lanka

Greece: 4.3 per 1,000 (2022) · Sri Lanka: 3.9 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Sri Lanka is 3.6 times that in Greece

Greece: 3.9 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 14 per 100k (2023)

34% of adults in Greece are obese, versus 11% in Sri Lanka

Greece: 33.7% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 11.2% (2024)

30% of adults in Greece smoke, versus 21% in Sri Lanka

Greece: 30.2% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7% (2024)

People in Greece rate their lives 1.68 points higher than in Sri Lanka

Greece: 5.70 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4.01 (2025)

Adults in Greece drink 3.4 times as much alcohol as in Sri Lanka

Greece: 8.6 litres (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2.5 litres (2023)

Greece has 7.1 times as much meat per person as Sri Lanka

Greece: 82 kg (2023) · Sri Lanka: 11.6 kg (2023)

Greece has 707 kcal more food per person per day than Sri Lanka

Greece: 3,382 kcal (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,675 kcal (2023)

Workers in Sri Lanka put in 160 more hours a year than in Greece

Greece: 1,893 hours (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,053 hours (2023)

Adults in Greece went to school 0.78 years longer than in Sri Lanka

Greece: 11.6 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 10.8 years (2023)

Greece welcomed 82 times as many tourists per resident as Sri Lanka (2019)

Greece: 2.67 (2022) · Sri Lanka: 0.03 (2022)

Greece has 13 more World Heritage sites than Sri Lanka (21 against 8)

Greece: 21 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 8 (2026)

Greece has won 129 Olympic medals, Sri Lanka 2

Greece: 129 (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026 edition)

86% of people in Greece are online, versus 55% in Sri Lanka

Greece: 86% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 55% (2024)

Home internet in Greece is 3 times as fast as in Sri Lanka

Greece: 186 Mbps (2026) · Sri Lanka: 63 Mbps (2026)

Greece and Sri Lanka are practically level

Greece: 100% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 100% (2024)

79% of people in Greece live in cities, versus 20% in Sri Lanka

Greece: 79% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 20% (2025)

Sri Lanka has 133 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Greece 114

Greece: 114 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 133 (2024)

Greece’s railway network is 50% longer than Sri Lanka’s

Greece: 2,339 km (2021) · Sri Lanka: 1,562 km (2019)

Airlines from Greece fly 10 times as many passengers per resident as those from Sri Lanka

Greece: 1.83 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 0.18 (2023)

Forest covers 37% of Greece, but only 34% of Sri Lanka

Greece: 36.9% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 34.4% (2024)

The average person in Greece emits 5.9 times as much CO₂ as someone in Sri Lanka

Greece: 5.3 t (2024) · Sri Lanka: 0.9 t (2024)

62% of Sri Lanka’s electricity is renewable, versus 50% in Greece

Greece: 49.7% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 61.6% (2025)

The air in Sri Lanka carries 37% more fine dust than in Greece

Greece: 15.1 µg/m³ (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 3.9 times as likely to be murdered in Sri Lanka as in Greece

Greece: 0.8 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 3.3 per 100k (2019)

Roads in Sri Lanka are 2 times as deadly as in Greece

Greece: 10.8 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 21.1 per 100k (2023)

Sri Lanka is on average 11.1 °C warmer than Greece

Greece: 15.7°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Sri Lanka gets 2.3 times as much rain as Greece

Greece: 800 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 1,839 mm (2016–2025 avg)