Israel’s coastline is 21% longer than Lebanon’s

Israel: 273 km (2026 edition) · Lebanon: 225 km (2026 edition)

Lebanon’s highest peak towers 852 m above Israel’s

Israel: 2,236 m (2026 edition) · Lebanon: 3,088 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 64% of Lebanon, versus 24% of Israel

Israel: 23.8% (2024) · Lebanon: 63.7% (2024)

Israel has 73% more people than Lebanon

Israel: 10.1 million (2025) · Lebanon: 5.85 million (2025)

Lebanon is 22% more densely populated than Israel

Israel: 468 per km² (2025) · Lebanon: 572 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Israel is 0.83 years older than in Lebanon

Israel: 29.2 years (2023) · Lebanon: 28.3 years (2023)

Women in Israel have 0.6 more children on average than in Lebanon

Israel: 2.87 children per woman (2024) · Lebanon: 2.23 children per woman (2024)

13% of people in Israel are 65 or older, versus 10% in Lebanon

Israel: 12.7% (2025) · Lebanon: 10.4% (2025)

Lebanon hosts 727 times as many refugees per resident as Israel

Israel: 0.1 per 1,000 (2025) · Lebanon: 91.5 per 1,000 (2025)

Israel has produced 5.9 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Lebanon 1.7

Israel: 5.9 (2026) · Lebanon: 1.7 (2026)

Israel and Lebanon are practically level

Israel: 2 (2026) · Lebanon: 2 (2026)

Israel’s economy is 24 times the size of Lebanon’s

Israel: $611 billion (2025) · Lebanon: $26 billion (2024)

Israel produces 5 times as much per person as Lebanon

Israel: Int$59,717 (2025) · Lebanon: Int$11,918 (2024)

Income is more unequally shared in Israel than in Lebanon (Gini 2.8 points higher)

Israel: 38.3 (2022) · Lebanon: 35.5 (2022)

5.8% of people in Lebanon live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.4% in Israel

Israel: 0.4% (2022) · Lebanon: 5.8% (2022)

Unemployment is 11% in Lebanon, versus 3.5% in Israel

Israel: 3.5% (2025) · Lebanon: 11% (2023)

Israel spends 7.8% of its GDP on the military, Lebanon 2.5%

Israel: 7.8% (2025) · Lebanon: 2.5% (2025)

Israel’s central government collects 23% of GDP in tax, Lebanon’s 11%

Israel: 23.2% (2024) · Lebanon: 11.1% (2024)

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

Israel: 101% (2025) · Lebanon: 38% (2024)

Israel spends 15 times as much on health per person as Lebanon

Israel: $3,928 (2023) · Lebanon: $261 (2023)

A baby in Lebanon is 5.7 times as likely to die before turning one as in Israel

Israel: 2.7 per 1,000 (2024) · Lebanon: 15.3 per 1,000 (2024)

Israel has 42% more doctors per person than Lebanon

Israel: 3.8 per 1,000 (2023) · Lebanon: 2.7 per 1,000 (2020)

Israel has 15% more hospital beds per person than Lebanon

Israel: 3.1 per 1,000 (2023) · Lebanon: 2.7 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in Israel is 5.8 times that in Lebanon

Israel: 6.9 per 100k (2023) · Lebanon: 1.2 per 100k (2022)

31% of adults in Lebanon are obese, versus 23% in Israel

Israel: 23.3% (2024) · Lebanon: 31.5% (2024)

47% of adults in Lebanon smoke, versus 21% in Israel

Israel: 21.2% (2024) · Lebanon: 46.9% (2024)

People in Israel rate their lives 3.46 points higher than in Lebanon

Israel: 7.19 (2025) · Lebanon: 3.72 (2025)

Adults in Israel drink 2.1 times as much alcohol as in Lebanon

Israel: 4.2 litres (2023) · Lebanon: 2 litres (2023)

Israel has 2.8 times as much meat per person as Lebanon

Israel: 108.7 kg (2023) · Lebanon: 38.2 kg (2023)

Israel has 926 kcal more food per person per day than Lebanon

Israel: 3,754 kcal (2023) · Lebanon: 2,828 kcal (2023)

Workers in Lebanon put in 522 more hours a year than in Israel

Israel: 1,890 hours (2023) · Lebanon: 2,412 hours (2023)

Adults in Israel went to school 3.2 years longer than in Lebanon

Israel: 13.5 years (2023) · Lebanon: 10.4 years (2023)

Lebanon welcomed 2.7 times as many tourists per resident as Israel (2019)

Israel: 0.1 (2024) · Lebanon: 0.26 (2022)

Israel has 2 more World Heritage sites than Lebanon (9 against 7)

Israel: 9 (2026) · Lebanon: 7 (2026)

Israel has won 20 Olympic medals, Lebanon 4

Israel: 20 (2026 edition) · Lebanon: 4 (2026 edition)

88% of people in Israel are online, versus 81% in Lebanon

Israel: 88% (2024) · Lebanon: 81% (2024)

Home internet in Israel is 10 times as fast as in Lebanon

Israel: 392 Mbps (2026) · Lebanon: 38 Mbps (2026)

Israel and Lebanon are practically level

Israel: 100% (2024) · Lebanon: 100% (2024)

92% of people in Israel live in cities, versus 91% in Lebanon

Israel: 92% (2025) · Lebanon: 91% (2025)

Israel has 177 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Lebanon 74

Israel: 177 (2024) · Lebanon: 74 (2022)

Israel’s railway network is 4.3 times as long as Lebanon’s

Israel: 1,720 km (2021) · Lebanon: 401 km (2017)

Airlines from Israel fly 58% more passengers per resident than those from Lebanon

Israel: 0.73 (2023) · Lebanon: 0.46 (2023)

Forest covers 14% of Lebanon, but only 6.8% of Israel

Israel: 6.8% (2024) · Lebanon: 13.8% (2024)

The average person in Israel emits 2.1 times as much CO₂ as someone in Lebanon

Israel: 5.6 t (2024) · Lebanon: 2.7 t (2024)

44% of Lebanon’s electricity is renewable, versus 17% in Israel

Israel: 16.9% (2025) · Lebanon: 43.8% (2024)

The air in Lebanon carries 28% more fine dust than in Israel

Israel: 20.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Lebanon: 26.2 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 38% more likely to be murdered in Lebanon than in Israel

Israel: 1.6 per 100k (2022) · Lebanon: 2.2 per 100k (2020)

Roads in Lebanon are 59% deadlier than in Israel

Israel: 6.8 per 100k (2023) · Lebanon: 10.8 per 100k (2023)

Israel is on average 4.6 °C warmer than Lebanon

Israel: 21.1°C (2016–2025 avg) · Lebanon: 16.6°C (2016–2025 avg)

Lebanon gets 2.8 times as much rain as Israel

Israel: 205 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Lebanon: 570 mm (2016–2025 avg)