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Land

Size, shape and altitude

Total area

How big is it, really?

Israel fits inside Ivory Coast 15 times

Israel: 22,070 km² (2024) · Ivory Coast: 322,460 km² (2024)

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Coastline

How much coast is there?

Ivory Coast’s coastline is 89% longer than Israel’s

Israel: 273 km (2026 edition) · Ivory Coast: 515 km (2026 edition)

Highest point

How high can you climb?

Israel’s highest peak towers 484 m above Ivory Coast’s

Israel: 2,236 m (2026 edition) · Ivory Coast: 1,752 m (2026 edition)

Farmland

How much of the land is farmed?

Farmland covers 84% of Ivory Coast, versus 24% of Israel

Israel: 23.8% (2024) · Ivory Coast: 83.9% (2024)

How far apart are they?

People

Who lives there, and how closely

Population

How many people live there?

Ivory Coast has 3.2 times as many people as Israel

Israel: 10.1 million (2025) · Ivory Coast: 32.7 million (2025)

Population density

How crowded is it?

Israel is 4.5 times as densely populated as Ivory Coast

Israel: 468 per km² (2025) · Ivory Coast: 103 per km² (2025)

Height of men

How tall are the men?

Men in Israel are 7.8 cm taller than in Ivory Coast

Israel: 176 cm (2019) · Ivory Coast: 168.2 cm (2019)

Height of women

How tall are the women?

Women in Israel are 3.6 cm taller than in Ivory Coast

Israel: 162.2 cm (2019) · Ivory Coast: 158.7 cm (2019)

Median age

How old is the typical person?

The typical person in Israel is 11 years older than in Ivory Coast

Israel: 29.2 years (2023) · Ivory Coast: 18.1 years (2023)

Fertility rate

How many children per woman?

Women in Ivory Coast have 1.4 more children on average than in Israel

Israel: 2.87 children per woman (2024) · Ivory Coast: 4.23 children per woman (2024)

Aged 65 and over

How many people are 65 or older?

13% of people in Israel are 65 or older, versus 2.7% in Ivory Coast

Israel: 12.7% (2025) · Ivory Coast: 2.7% (2025)

Refugees hosted per 1,000 residents

How many refugees does it host?

Ivory Coast hosts 18 times as many refugees per resident as Israel

Israel: 0.1 per 1,000 (2025) · Ivory Coast: 2.3 per 1,000 (2025)

Nobel laureates per 10 million people

How many Nobel laureates were born there?

Israel has produced 5.9 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ivory Coast none

Israel: 5.9 (2026) · Ivory Coast: 0 (2026)

Official languages

How many official languages?

Israel has 2 official languages, Ivory Coast 1

Israel: 2 (2026) · Ivory Coast: 1 (2026)

What shape is the population?

Money

What an economy looks like per person

Economy size (GDP)

How big is the economy?

Israel’s economy is 6.1 times the size of Ivory Coast’s

Israel: $611 billion (2025) · Ivory Coast: $99.8 billion (2025)

GDP per person (PPP)

How much is produced per person?

Israel produces 7.3 times as much per person as Ivory Coast

Israel: Int$59,717 (2025) · Ivory Coast: Int$8,209 (2025)

Income inequality (Gini)

How evenly is income shared?

Income is more unequally shared in Israel than in Ivory Coast (Gini 3 points higher)

Israel: 38.3 (2022) · Ivory Coast: 35.3 (2021)

Extreme poverty ($3.00 a day)

How many live on less than $3 a day?

21% of people in Ivory Coast live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.4% in Israel

Israel: 0.4% (2022) · Ivory Coast: 20.8% (2021)

Unemployment

How many people are looking for work?

Unemployment is 3.5% in Israel, versus 2.3% in Ivory Coast

Israel: 3.5% (2025) · Ivory Coast: 2.3% (2025)

Military spending

How much goes to the military?

Israel spends 7.8% of its GDP on the military, Ivory Coast 0.8%

Israel: 7.8% (2025) · Ivory Coast: 0.8% (2025)

Tax revenue (central government)

How much does the central government collect in tax?

Israel’s central government collects 23% of GDP in tax, Ivory Coast’s 13%

Israel: 23.2% (2024) · Ivory Coast: 13% (2023)

Price level (US = 100)

How expensive is it?

Israel’s price level (US = 100) is 2.7× Ivory Coast’s

Israel: 101% (2025) · Ivory Coast: 37% (2025)

Health

Long lives, small beginnings

Health spending per person

How much is spent on health?

Israel spends 45 times as much on health per person as Ivory Coast

Israel: $3,928 (2023) · Ivory Coast: $88 (2023)

Life expectancy

How long do people live?

People in Israel live 21 years longer than in Ivory Coast

Israel: 83.2 years (2024) · Ivory Coast: 62.1 years (2024)

Infant mortality

How many babies don’t reach their first birthday?

A baby in Ivory Coast is 17 times as likely to die before turning one as in Israel

Israel: 2.7 per 1,000 (2024) · Ivory Coast: 44.8 per 1,000 (2024)

Doctors

How many doctors are there?

Israel has 23 times as many doctors per person as Ivory Coast

Israel: 3.8 per 1,000 (2023) · Ivory Coast: 0.2 per 1,000 (2023)

Hospital beds

How many hospital beds are there?

Israel: 3.1 per 1,000 (2023) · Ivory Coast: no data

Suicide rate

How common is suicide?

The suicide rate in Ivory Coast is 2.4 times that in Israel

Israel: 6.9 per 100k (2023) · Ivory Coast: 16.5 per 100k (2023)

Adult obesity

How common is obesity?

23% of adults in Israel are obese, versus 12% in Ivory Coast

Israel: 23.3% (2024) · Ivory Coast: 12% (2024)

Smoking

How many adults smoke?

21% of adults in Israel smoke, versus 7.3% in Ivory Coast

Israel: 21.2% (2024) · Ivory Coast: 7.3% (2024)

Everyday life

Plates, glasses and happiness

Life satisfaction

How do people rate their lives?

People in Israel rate their lives 2.04 points higher than in Ivory Coast

Israel: 7.19 (2025) · Ivory Coast: 5.15 (2025)

Alcohol consumption

How much do people drink?

Israel and Ivory Coast are nearly identical here

Israel: 4.2 litres (2023) · Ivory Coast: 4.2 litres (2023)

Meat supply

How much meat is on the menu?

Israel has 9 times as much meat per person as Ivory Coast

Israel: 108.7 kg (2023) · Ivory Coast: 12 kg (2023)

Daily calories

How much food is there per day?

Israel has 816 kcal more food per person per day than Ivory Coast

Israel: 3,754 kcal (2023) · Ivory Coast: 2,938 kcal (2023)

Working hours

How long do people work?

Workers in Ivory Coast put in 213 more hours a year than in Israel

Israel: 1,890 hours (2023) · Ivory Coast: 2,103 hours (2023)

Years of schooling

How long do people go to school?

Adults in Israel went to school 8.7 years longer than in Ivory Coast

Israel: 13.5 years (2023) · Ivory Coast: 4.9 years (2023)

Tourists per resident

How many tourists visit?

Israel: 0.1 (2024) · Ivory Coast: no data

World Heritage sites

How many World Heritage sites?

Israel has 4 more World Heritage sites than Ivory Coast (9 against 5)

Israel: 9 (2026) · Ivory Coast: 5 (2026)

Olympic medals (all time)

How many Olympic medals has it won?

Israel has won 20 Olympic medals, Ivory Coast 5

Israel: 20 (2026 edition) · Ivory Coast: 5 (2026 edition)

Connected

Online, electrified, urban

Internet users

How many people are online?

88% of people in Israel are online, versus 41% in Ivory Coast

Israel: 88% (2024) · Ivory Coast: 41% (2024)

Fixed broadband download speed

How fast is home internet?

Home internet in Israel is 4.6 times as fast as in Ivory Coast

Israel: 392 Mbps (2026) · Ivory Coast: 85 Mbps (2026)

Access to electricity

Who has electricity at home?

100% of people in Israel have electricity, versus 73% in Ivory Coast

Israel: 100% (2024) · Ivory Coast: 72.9% (2024)

Urban population

How many live in cities?

92% of people in Israel live in cities, versus 55% in Ivory Coast

Israel: 92% (2025) · Ivory Coast: 55% (2025)

Mobile subscriptions

How many phones per person?

Ivory Coast has 184 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Israel 177

Israel: 177 (2024) · Ivory Coast: 184 (2024)

Railway network

How much railway is there?

Israel’s railway network is 2.7 times as long as Ivory Coast’s

Israel: 1,720 km (2021) · Ivory Coast: 639 km (2021)

Air passengers per resident

How much do they fly?

Airlines from Israel fly 33 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ivory Coast

Israel: 0.73 (2023) · Ivory Coast: 0.02 (2023)

Planet

Air, forests and energy

Forest cover

How much of the land is forest?

Forest covers 12% of Ivory Coast, but only 6.8% of Israel

Israel: 6.8% (2024) · Ivory Coast: 12.1% (2024)

CO₂ per person

How much CO₂ does each person emit?

The average person in Israel emits 12 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ivory Coast

Israel: 5.6 t (2024) · Ivory Coast: 0.5 t (2024)

Renewable electricity

How green is the power grid?

29% of Ivory Coast’s electricity is renewable, versus 17% in Israel

Israel: 16.9% (2025) · Ivory Coast: 28.9% (2024)

Air pollution (PM2.5)

How clean is the air?

Israel and Ivory Coast are nearly identical here

Israel: 20.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Ivory Coast: 20.2 µg/m³ (2024)

Where does the power come from?

Safety

Measured risk, not vibes

Homicide rate

How common is murder?

Israel: 1.6 per 100k (2022) · Ivory Coast: no data

Road deaths

How dangerous are the roads?

Roads in Ivory Coast are 4.5 times as deadly as in Israel

Israel: 6.8 per 100k (2023) · Ivory Coast: 30.9 per 100k (2023)

Climate

What the year feels like

Average temperature

How warm is it?

Ivory Coast is on average 5.7 °C warmer than Israel

Israel: 21.1°C (2016–2025 avg) · Ivory Coast: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Rainfall

How much rain falls?

Ivory Coast gets 6 times as much rain as Israel

Israel: 205 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Ivory Coast: 1,226 mm (2016–2025 avg)

What does the year feel like?

Between them

People, goods and passports that cross from one to the other

Who has moved between them?
Can they visit without a visa?
What do they sell each other?
Have they met on the pitch?
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Quick answers

Is Israel bigger than Ivory Coast?

Ivory Coast is larger. Israel fits inside Ivory Coast 15 times.

Which has more people, Israel or Ivory Coast?

Ivory Coast has 3.2 times as many people as Israel (2025 estimates).

Where do people live longer, Israel or Ivory Coast?

People in Israel live 21 years longer than in Ivory Coast. Life expectancy at birth is 83.2 years in Israel and 62.1 in Ivory Coast.

Are people taller in Israel or Ivory Coast?

Men in Israel are 7.8 cm taller than in Ivory Coast (NCD-RisC, cohort born 2019).

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