The Philippines’ coastline is 133 times as long as Israel’s

Israel: 273 km (2026 edition) · Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition)

The Philippines’ highest peak towers 718 m above Israel’s

Israel: 2,236 m (2026 edition) · Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 43% of the Philippines, versus 24% of Israel

Israel: 23.8% (2024) · Philippines: 42.7% (2024)

The Philippines has 12 times as many people as Israel

Israel: 10.1 million (2025) · Philippines: 117 million (2025)

Israel is 19% more densely populated than the Philippines

Israel: 468 per km² (2025) · Philippines: 392 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Israel is 3.9 years older than in the Philippines

Israel: 29.2 years (2023) · Philippines: 25.3 years (2023)

Women in Israel have 1.0 more children on average than in the Philippines

Israel: 2.87 children per woman (2024) · Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024)

13% of people in Israel are 65 or older, versus 5.7% in the Philippines

Israel: 12.7% (2025) · Philippines: 5.7% (2025)

Israel hosts 14 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Israel: 0.1 per 1,000 (2025) · Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025)

Israel has produced 5.9 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, the Philippines 0.1

Israel: 5.9 (2026) · Philippines: 0.1 (2026)

Israel and the Philippines are practically level

Israel: 2 (2026) · Philippines: 2 (2026)

Israel’s economy is 25% larger than the Philippines’

Israel: $611 billion (2025) · Philippines: $487 billion (2025)

Israel produces 4.7 times as much per person as the Philippines

Israel: Int$59,717 (2025) · Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the Philippines than in Israel (Gini 1 points higher)

Israel: 38.3 (2022) · Philippines: 39.3 (2023)

5.3% of people in the Philippines live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.4% in Israel

Israel: 0.4% (2022) · Philippines: 5.3% (2023)

Unemployment is 3.5% in Israel, versus 2.2% in the Philippines

Israel: 3.5% (2025) · Philippines: 2.2% (2025)

Israel spends 7.8% of its GDP on the military, the Philippines 1.3%

Israel: 7.8% (2025) · Philippines: 1.3% (2025)

Israel’s central government collects 23% of GDP in tax, the Philippines’ 14%

Israel: 23.2% (2024) · Philippines: 14.4% (2024)

Israel’s price level (US = 100) is 3× the Philippines’

Israel: 101% (2025) · Philippines: 33% (2025)

Israel spends 20 times as much on health per person as the Philippines

Israel: $3,928 (2023) · Philippines: $194 (2023)

A baby in the Philippines is 8 times as likely to die before turning one as in Israel

Israel: 2.7 per 1,000 (2024) · Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Israel has 4.8 times as many doctors per person as the Philippines

Israel: 3.8 per 1,000 (2023) · Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021)

Israel has 3.2 times as many hospital beds per person as the Philippines

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

The suicide rate in Israel is 2.2 times that in the Philippines

Israel: 6.9 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023)

23% of adults in Israel are obese, versus 9.7% in the Philippines

Israel: 23.3% (2024) · Philippines: 9.7% (2024)

21% of adults in Israel smoke, versus 20% in the Philippines

Israel: 21.2% (2024) · Philippines: 19.9% (2024)

People in Israel rate their lives 0.98 points higher than in the Philippines

Israel: 7.19 (2025) · Philippines: 6.21 (2025)

Adults in the Philippines drink 46% more alcohol than in Israel

Israel: 4.2 litres (2023) · Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023)

Israel has 3.2 times as much meat per person as the Philippines

Israel: 108.7 kg (2023) · Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023)

Israel has 771 kcal more food per person per day than the Philippines

Israel: 3,754 kcal (2023) · Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023)

Workers in the Philippines put in 206 more hours a year than in Israel

Israel: 1,890 hours (2023) · Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023)

Adults in Israel went to school 3.6 years longer than in the Philippines

Israel: 13.5 years (2023) · Philippines: 10 years (2023)

Israel welcomed 4.1 times as many tourists per resident as the Philippines (2019)

Israel: 0.1 (2024) · Philippines: 0.02 (2022)

Israel has 3 more World Heritage sites than the Philippines (9 against 6)

Israel: 9 (2026) · Philippines: 6 (2026)

Israel has won 20 Olympic medals, the Philippines 18

Israel: 20 (2026 edition) · Philippines: 18 (2026 edition)

88% of people in Israel are online, versus 67% in the Philippines

Israel: 88% (2024) · Philippines: 67% (2024)

Home internet in Israel is 2.4 times as fast as in the Philippines

Israel: 392 Mbps (2026) · Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026)

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

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

92% of people in Israel live in cities, versus 56% in the Philippines

Israel: 92% (2025) · Philippines: 56% (2025)

Israel has 177 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, the Philippines 115

Israel: 177 (2024) · Philippines: 115 (2024)

Israel’s railway network is 3.4 times as long as the Philippines’

Israel: 1,720 km (2021) · Philippines: 509 km (2016)

Airlines from Israel fly 2.1 times as many passengers per resident as those from the Philippines

Israel: 0.73 (2023) · Philippines: 0.36 (2023)

Forest covers 25% of the Philippines, but only 6.8% of Israel

Israel: 6.8% (2024) · Philippines: 24.8% (2024)

The average person in Israel emits 3.7 times as much CO₂ as someone in the Philippines

Israel: 5.6 t (2024) · Philippines: 1.5 t (2024)

23% of the Philippines’ electricity is renewable, versus 17% in Israel

Israel: 16.9% (2025) · Philippines: 23.3% (2025)

The air in the Philippines carries 13% more fine dust than in Israel

Israel: 20.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 2.7 times as likely to be murdered in the Philippines as in Israel

Israel: 1.6 per 100k (2022) · Philippines: 4.3 per 100k (2023)

Roads in the Philippines are 2 times as deadly as in Israel

Israel: 6.8 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 5.2 °C warmer than Israel

Israel: 21.1°C (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Philippines gets 15 times as much rain as Israel

Israel: 205 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg)