Sri Lanka’s coastline is 4.9 times as long as Israel’s

Israel: 273 km (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 1,340 km (2026 edition)

Sri Lanka’s highest peak towers 288 m above Israel’s

Israel: 2,236 m (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2,524 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 49% of Sri Lanka, versus 24% of Israel

Israel: 23.8% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 48.8% (2024)

Sri Lanka has 2.1 times as many people as Israel

Israel: 10.1 million (2025) · Sri Lanka: 21.8 million (2025)

Israel is 33% more densely populated than Sri Lanka

Israel: 468 per km² (2025) · Sri Lanka: 352 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sri Lanka is 3.7 years older than in Israel

Israel: 29.2 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 32.8 years (2023)

Women in Israel have 0.9 more children on average than in Sri Lanka

Israel: 2.87 children per woman (2024) · Sri Lanka: 1.95 children per woman (2024)

Israel and Sri Lanka are practically level

Israel: 12.7% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 12.5% (2025)

Israel hosts 13 times as many refugees per resident as Sri Lanka

Israel: 0.1 per 1,000 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 0.0098 per 1,000 (2025)

Israel has produced 5.9 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Sri Lanka none

Israel: 5.9 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 0 (2026)

Israel and Sri Lanka are practically level

Israel: 2 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026)

Israel’s economy is 5.6 times the size of Sri Lanka’s

Israel: $611 billion (2025) · Sri Lanka: $109 billion (2025)

Israel produces 3.5 times as much per person as Sri Lanka

Israel: Int$59,717 (2025) · Sri Lanka: Int$17,065 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Israel than in Sri Lanka (Gini 0.6 points higher)

Israel: 38.3 (2022) · Sri Lanka: 37.7 (2019)

2.7% of people in Sri Lanka live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.4% in Israel

Israel: 0.4% (2022) · Sri Lanka: 2.7% (2019)

Unemployment is 4.0% in Sri Lanka, versus 3.5% in Israel

Israel: 3.5% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4% (2025)

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

Israel: 7.8% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 1.3% (2025)

Israel’s central government collects 23% of GDP in tax, Sri Lanka’s 9.9%

Israel: 23.2% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 9.9% (2023)

Israel’s price level (US = 100) is 3.4× Sri Lanka’s

Israel: 101% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 29% (2025)

Israel spends 29 times as much on health per person as Sri Lanka

Israel: $3,928 (2023) · Sri Lanka: $134 (2023)

A baby in Sri Lanka is 93% more likely to die before turning one than in Israel

Israel: 2.7 per 1,000 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 5.2 per 1,000 (2024)

Israel has 3.3 times as many doctors per person as Sri Lanka

Israel: 3.8 per 1,000 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 1.1 per 1,000 (2023)

Sri Lanka has 25% more hospital beds per person than Israel

Israel: 3.1 per 1,000 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 3.9 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Sri Lanka is 2 times that in Israel

Israel: 6.9 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 14 per 100k (2023)

23% of adults in Israel are obese, versus 11% in Sri Lanka

Israel: 23.3% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 11.2% (2024)

21% of adults in Israel smoke, versus 21% in Sri Lanka

Israel: 21.2% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7% (2024)

People in Israel rate their lives 3.17 points higher than in Sri Lanka

Israel: 7.19 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4.01 (2025)

Adults in Israel drink 68% more alcohol than in Sri Lanka

Israel: 4.2 litres (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2.5 litres (2023)

Israel has 9.4 times as much meat per person as Sri Lanka

Israel: 108.7 kg (2023) · Sri Lanka: 11.6 kg (2023)

Israel has 1,079 kcal more food per person per day than Sri Lanka

Israel: 3,754 kcal (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,675 kcal (2023)

Workers in Sri Lanka put in 163 more hours a year than in Israel

Israel: 1,890 hours (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,053 hours (2023)

Adults in Israel went to school 2.8 years longer than in Sri Lanka

Israel: 13.5 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 10.8 years (2023)

Israel welcomed 3 times as many tourists per resident as Sri Lanka (2019)

Israel: 0.1 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 0.03 (2022)

Israel has 1 more World Heritage site than Sri Lanka (9 against 8)

Israel: 9 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 8 (2026)

Israel has won 20 Olympic medals, Sri Lanka 2

Israel: 20 (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026 edition)

88% of people in Israel are online, versus 55% in Sri Lanka

Israel: 88% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 55% (2024)

Home internet in Israel is 6.3 times as fast as in Sri Lanka

Israel: 392 Mbps (2026) · Sri Lanka: 63 Mbps (2026)

Israel and Sri Lanka are practically level

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

92% of people in Israel live in cities, versus 20% in Sri Lanka

Israel: 92% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 20% (2025)

Israel has 177 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Sri Lanka 133

Israel: 177 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 133 (2024)

Israel’s railway network is 10% longer than Sri Lanka’s

Israel: 1,720 km (2021) · Sri Lanka: 1,562 km (2019)

Airlines from Israel fly 4.1 times as many passengers per resident as those from Sri Lanka

Israel: 0.73 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 0.18 (2023)

Forest covers 34% of Sri Lanka, but only 6.8% of Israel

Israel: 6.8% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 34.4% (2024)

The average person in Israel emits 6.2 times as much CO₂ as someone in Sri Lanka

Israel: 5.6 t (2024) · Sri Lanka: 0.9 t (2024)

62% of Sri Lanka’s electricity is renewable, versus 17% in Israel

Israel: 16.9% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 61.6% (2025)

The air in Sri Lanka carries 1% more fine dust than in Israel

Israel: 20.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 2 times as likely to be murdered in Sri Lanka as in Israel

Israel: 1.6 per 100k (2022) · Sri Lanka: 3.3 per 100k (2019)

Roads in Sri Lanka are 3.1 times as deadly as in Israel

Israel: 6.8 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 21.1 per 100k (2023)

Sri Lanka is on average 5.7 °C warmer than Israel

Israel: 21.1°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Sri Lanka gets 9 times as much rain as Israel

Israel: 205 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 1,839 mm (2016–2025 avg)