The Philippines’ coastline is 626 times as long as Iraq’s

Iraq: 58 km (2026 edition) · Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition)

Iraq’s highest peak towers 657 m above the Philippines’

Iraq: 3,611 m (2026 edition) · Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 43% of the Philippines, versus 22% of Iraq

Iraq: 21.6% (2024) · Philippines: 42.7% (2024)

The Philippines has 2.5 times as many people as Iraq

Iraq: 47 million (2025) · Philippines: 117 million (2025)

The Philippines is 3.6 times as densely populated as Iraq

Iraq: 108 per km² (2025) · Philippines: 392 per km² (2025)

The typical person in the Philippines is 4.9 years older than in Iraq

Iraq: 20.3 years (2023) · Philippines: 25.3 years (2023)

Women in Iraq have 1.3 more children on average than in the Philippines

Iraq: 3.22 children per woman (2024) · Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024)

5.7% of people in the Philippines are 65 or older, versus 3.4% in Iraq

Iraq: 3.4% (2025) · Philippines: 5.7% (2025)

Iraq hosts 776 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Iraq: 6.9 per 1,000 (2025) · Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025)

Iraq has produced 0.2 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, the Philippines 0.1

Iraq: 0.2 (2026) · Philippines: 0.1 (2026)

Iraq has 3 official languages, the Philippines 2

Iraq: 3 (2026) · Philippines: 2 (2026)

The Philippines’ economy is 91% larger than Iraq’s

Iraq: $254 billion (2025) · Philippines: $487 billion (2025)

Iraq produces 13% more per person than the Philippines

Iraq: Int$14,267 (2025) · Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the Philippines than in Iraq (Gini 9.5 points higher)

Iraq: 29.8 (2023) · Philippines: 39.3 (2023)

5.3% of people in the Philippines live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.5% in Iraq

Iraq: 0.5% (2023) · Philippines: 5.3% (2023)

Unemployment is 15% in Iraq, versus 2.2% in the Philippines

Iraq: 15.5% (2025) · Philippines: 2.2% (2025)

Iraq spends 2.4% of its GDP on the military, the Philippines 1.3%

Iraq: 2.4% (2025) · Philippines: 1.3% (2025)

The Philippines’ central government collects 14% of GDP in tax, Iraq’s 1.3%

Iraq: 1.3% (2019) · Philippines: 14.4% (2024)

Iraq’s price level (US = 100) is 1.1× the Philippines’

Iraq: 38% (2025) · Philippines: 33% (2025)

Iraq spends 72% more on health per person than the Philippines

Iraq: $333 (2023) · Philippines: $194 (2023)

A baby in the Philippines is 8% more likely to die before turning one than in Iraq

Iraq: 20.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Iraq has 29% more doctors per person than the Philippines

Iraq: 1 per 1,000 (2022) · Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021)

Iraq has 9% more hospital beds per person than the Philippines

Iraq: 1.1 per 1,000 (2018) · Philippines: 1 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in Iraq is 65% higher than in the Philippines

Iraq: 5.1 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023)

37% of adults in Iraq are obese, versus 9.7% in the Philippines

Iraq: 36.8% (2024) · Philippines: 9.7% (2024)

Iraq and the Philippines are practically level

Iraq: 20.1% (2024) · Philippines: 19.9% (2024)

People in the Philippines rate their lives 0.99 points higher than in Iraq

Iraq: 5.21 (2025) · Philippines: 6.21 (2025)

Adults in the Philippines drink 10 times as much alcohol as in Iraq

Iraq: 0.6 litres (2023) · Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023)

The Philippines has 60% more meat per person than Iraq

Iraq: 21.1 kg (2023) · Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023)

The Philippines has 612 kcal more food per person per day than Iraq

Iraq: 2,371 kcal (2023) · Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023)

Workers in the Philippines put in 513 more hours a year than in Iraq

Iraq: 1,583 hours (2023) · Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023)

Adults in the Philippines went to school 3.2 years longer than in Iraq

Iraq: 6.8 years (2023) · Philippines: 10 years (2023)

Iraq: no data · Philippines: 0.02 (2022)

Iraq and the Philippines are practically level

Iraq: 6 (2026) · Philippines: 6 (2026)

The Philippines has won 18 Olympic medals, Iraq 1

Iraq: 1 (2026 edition) · Philippines: 18 (2026 edition)

81% of people in Iraq are online, versus 67% in the Philippines

Iraq: 81% (2024) · Philippines: 67% (2024)

Home internet in the Philippines is 2.7 times as fast as in Iraq

Iraq: 62 Mbps (2026) · Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Iraq have electricity, versus 95% in the Philippines

Iraq: 100% (2024) · Philippines: 94.8% (2024)

70% of people in Iraq live in cities, versus 56% in the Philippines

Iraq: 70% (2025) · Philippines: 56% (2025)

The Philippines has 115 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Iraq 100

Iraq: 100 (2024) · Philippines: 115 (2024)

Iraq’s railway network is 4.7 times as long as the Philippines’

Iraq: 2,370 km (2014) · Philippines: 509 km (2016)

Airlines from the Philippines fly 4.4 times as many passengers per resident as those from Iraq

Iraq: 0.08 (2023) · Philippines: 0.36 (2023)

Forest covers 25% of the Philippines, but only 1.6% of Iraq

Iraq: 1.6% (2024) · Philippines: 24.8% (2024)

The average person in Iraq emits 3.4 times as much CO₂ as someone in the Philippines

Iraq: 5.1 t (2024) · Philippines: 1.5 t (2024)

23% of the Philippines’ electricity is renewable, versus 1.6% in Iraq

Iraq: 1.6% (2024) · Philippines: 23.3% (2025)

The air in Iraq carries 2.1 times as much fine dust as in the Philippines

Iraq: 48.8 µg/m³ (2024) · Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024)

Iraq: no data · Philippines: 4.3 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Iraq are 2.3 times as deadly as in the Philippines

Iraq: 31.5 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 2.5 °C warmer than Iraq

Iraq: 23.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Philippines gets 14 times as much rain as Iraq

Iraq: 214 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg)