Sri Lanka’s coastline is 23 times as long as Iraq’s

Iraq: 58 km (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 1,340 km (2026 edition)

Iraq’s highest peak towers 1,087 m above Sri Lanka’s

Iraq: 3,611 m (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2,524 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 49% of Sri Lanka, versus 22% of Iraq

Iraq: 21.6% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 48.8% (2024)

Iraq has 2.2 times as many people as Sri Lanka

Iraq: 47 million (2025) · Sri Lanka: 21.8 million (2025)

Sri Lanka is 3.2 times as densely populated as Iraq

Iraq: 108 per km² (2025) · Sri Lanka: 352 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sri Lanka is 12 years older than in Iraq

Iraq: 20.3 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 32.8 years (2023)

Women in Iraq have 1.3 more children on average than in Sri Lanka

Iraq: 3.22 children per woman (2024) · Sri Lanka: 1.95 children per woman (2024)

12% of people in Sri Lanka are 65 or older, versus 3.4% in Iraq

Iraq: 3.4% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 12.5% (2025)

Iraq hosts 700 times as many refugees per resident as Sri Lanka

Iraq: 6.9 per 1,000 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 0.0098 per 1,000 (2025)

Iraq has produced 0.2 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Sri Lanka none

Iraq: 0.2 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 0 (2026)

Iraq has 3 official languages, Sri Lanka 2

Iraq: 3 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026)

Iraq’s economy is 2.3 times the size of Sri Lanka’s

Iraq: $254 billion (2025) · Sri Lanka: $109 billion (2025)

Sri Lanka produces 20% more per person than Iraq

Iraq: Int$14,267 (2025) · Sri Lanka: Int$17,065 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Sri Lanka than in Iraq (Gini 7.9 points higher)

Iraq: 29.8 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 37.7 (2019)

2.7% of people in Sri Lanka live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.5% in Iraq

Iraq: 0.5% (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2.7% (2019)

Unemployment is 15% in Iraq, versus 4.0% in Sri Lanka

Iraq: 15.5% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4% (2025)

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

Iraq: 2.4% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 1.3% (2025)

Sri Lanka’s central government collects 9.9% of GDP in tax, Iraq’s 1.3%

Iraq: 1.3% (2019) · Sri Lanka: 9.9% (2023)

Iraq’s price level (US = 100) is 1.3× Sri Lanka’s

Iraq: 38% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 29% (2025)

Iraq spends 2.5 times as much on health per person as Sri Lanka

Iraq: $333 (2023) · Sri Lanka: $134 (2023)

A baby in Iraq is 3.9 times as likely to die before turning one as in Sri Lanka

Iraq: 20.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 5.2 per 1,000 (2024)

Sri Lanka has 11% more doctors per person than Iraq

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

Sri Lanka has 3.7 times as many hospital beds per person as Iraq

Iraq: 1.1 per 1,000 (2018) · Sri Lanka: 3.9 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Sri Lanka is 2.7 times that in Iraq

Iraq: 5.1 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 14 per 100k (2023)

37% of adults in Iraq are obese, versus 11% in Sri Lanka

Iraq: 36.8% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 11.2% (2024)

21% of adults in Sri Lanka smoke, versus 20% in Iraq

Iraq: 20.1% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7% (2024)

People in Iraq rate their lives 1.20 points higher than in Sri Lanka

Iraq: 5.21 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4.01 (2025)

Adults in Sri Lanka drink 4.1 times as much alcohol as in Iraq

Iraq: 0.6 litres (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2.5 litres (2023)

Iraq has 82% more meat per person than Sri Lanka

Iraq: 21.1 kg (2023) · Sri Lanka: 11.6 kg (2023)

Sri Lanka has 305 kcal more food per person per day than Iraq

Iraq: 2,371 kcal (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,675 kcal (2023)

Workers in Sri Lanka put in 470 more hours a year than in Iraq

Iraq: 1,583 hours (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,053 hours (2023)

Adults in Sri Lanka went to school 4 years longer than in Iraq

Iraq: 6.8 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 10.8 years (2023)

Iraq: no data · Sri Lanka: 0.03 (2022)

Sri Lanka has 2 more World Heritage sites than Iraq (8 against 6)

Iraq: 6 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 8 (2026)

Sri Lanka has won 2 Olympic medals, Iraq 1

Iraq: 1 (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026 edition)

81% of people in Iraq are online, versus 55% in Sri Lanka

Iraq: 81% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 55% (2024)

Home internet in Sri Lanka is 1% faster than in Iraq

Iraq: 62 Mbps (2026) · Sri Lanka: 63 Mbps (2026)

Iraq and Sri Lanka are practically level

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

70% of people in Iraq live in cities, versus 20% in Sri Lanka

Iraq: 70% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 20% (2025)

Sri Lanka has 133 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Iraq 100

Iraq: 100 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 133 (2024)

Iraq’s railway network is 52% longer than Sri Lanka’s

Iraq: 2,370 km (2014) · Sri Lanka: 1,562 km (2019)

Airlines from Sri Lanka fly 2.2 times as many passengers per resident as those from Iraq

Iraq: 0.08 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 0.18 (2023)

Forest covers 34% of Sri Lanka, but only 1.6% of Iraq

Iraq: 1.6% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 34.4% (2024)

The average person in Iraq emits 5.6 times as much CO₂ as someone in Sri Lanka

Iraq: 5.1 t (2024) · Sri Lanka: 0.9 t (2024)

62% of Sri Lanka’s electricity is renewable, versus 1.6% in Iraq

Iraq: 1.6% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 61.6% (2025)

The air in Iraq carries 2.4 times as much fine dust as in Sri Lanka

Iraq: 48.8 µg/m³ (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7 µg/m³ (2024)

Iraq: no data · Sri Lanka: 3.3 per 100k (2019)

Roads in Iraq are 49% deadlier than in Sri Lanka

Iraq: 31.5 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 21.1 per 100k (2023)

Sri Lanka is on average 2.9 °C warmer than Iraq

Iraq: 23.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Sri Lanka gets 8.6 times as much rain as Iraq

Iraq: 214 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 1,839 mm (2016–2025 avg)