The Philippines’ coastline is 4.8 times as long as Italy’s

Italy: 7,600 km (2026 edition) · Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition)

Italy’s highest peak towers 1,794 m above the Philippines’

Italy: 4,748 m (2026 edition) · Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 44% of Italy, versus 43% of the Philippines

Italy: 43.6% (2024) · Philippines: 42.7% (2024)

The Philippines has 2 times as many people as Italy

Italy: 58.9 million (2025) · Philippines: 117 million (2025)

The Philippines is 2 times as densely populated as Italy

Italy: 199 per km² (2025) · Philippines: 392 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Italy is 22 years older than in the Philippines

Italy: 47.5 years (2023) · Philippines: 25.3 years (2023)

Women in the Philippines have 0.7 more children on average than in Italy

Italy: 1.18 children per woman (2024) · Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024)

25% of people in Italy are 65 or older, versus 5.7% in the Philippines

Italy: 25.1% (2025) · Philippines: 5.7% (2025)

Italy hosts 371 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Italy: 3.3 per 1,000 (2025) · Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025)

Italy has produced 3.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, the Philippines 0.1

Italy: 3.4 (2026) · Philippines: 0.1 (2026)

The Philippines has 2 official languages, Italy 1

Italy: 1 (2026) · Philippines: 2 (2026)

Italy’s economy is 5.2 times the size of the Philippines’

Italy: $2.55 trillion (2025) · Philippines: $487 billion (2025)

Italy produces 5 times as much per person as the Philippines

Italy: Int$62,803 (2025) · Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the Philippines than in Italy (Gini 5 points higher)

Italy: 34.3 (2023) · Philippines: 39.3 (2023)

5.3% of people in the Philippines live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.9% in Italy

Italy: 0.9% (2023) · Philippines: 5.3% (2023)

Unemployment is 6.4% in Italy, versus 2.2% in the Philippines

Italy: 6.4% (2025) · Philippines: 2.2% (2025)

Italy spends 1.9% of its GDP on the military, the Philippines 1.3%

Italy: 1.9% (2025) · Philippines: 1.3% (2025)

Italy’s central government collects 26% of GDP in tax, the Philippines’ 14%

Italy: 25.6% (2024) · Philippines: 14.4% (2024)

Italy’s price level (US = 100) is 2.1× the Philippines’

Italy: 69% (2025) · Philippines: 33% (2025)

Italy spends 18 times as much on health per person as the Philippines

Italy: $3,398 (2024) · Philippines: $194 (2023)

A baby in the Philippines is 9.4 times as likely to die before turning one as in Italy

Italy: 2.3 per 1,000 (2024) · Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Italy has 5.3 times as many doctors per person as the Philippines

Italy: 4.2 per 1,000 (2022) · Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021)

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

Italy: 3.1 per 1,000 (2022) · Philippines: 1 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in Italy is 84% higher than in the Philippines

Italy: 5.7 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023)

18% of adults in Italy are obese, versus 9.7% in the Philippines

Italy: 17.9% (2024) · Philippines: 9.7% (2024)

22% of adults in Italy smoke, versus 20% in the Philippines

Italy: 22.4% (2024) · Philippines: 19.9% (2024)

People in Italy rate their lives 0.37 points higher than in the Philippines

Italy: 6.57 (2025) · Philippines: 6.21 (2025)

Adults in Italy drink 38% more alcohol than in the Philippines

Italy: 8.4 litres (2023) · Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023)

Italy has 2.1 times as much meat per person as the Philippines

Italy: 71.2 kg (2023) · Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023)

Italy has 770 kcal more food per person per day than the Philippines

Italy: 3,753 kcal (2023) · Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023)

Workers in the Philippines put in 395 more hours a year than in Italy

Italy: 1,701 hours (2023) · Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023)

Adults in Italy went to school 0.85 years longer than in the Philippines

Italy: 10.8 years (2023) · Philippines: 10 years (2023)

Italy welcomed 42 times as many tourists per resident as the Philippines (2019)

Italy: 0.98 (2024) · Philippines: 0.02 (2022)

Italy has 56 more World Heritage sites than the Philippines (62 against 6)

Italy: 62 (2026) · Philippines: 6 (2026)

Italy has won 829 Olympic medals, the Philippines 18

Italy: 829 (2026 edition) · Philippines: 18 (2026 edition)

89% of people in Italy are online, versus 67% in the Philippines

Italy: 89% (2024) · Philippines: 67% (2024)

Home internet in Italy is 65% faster than in the Philippines

Italy: 274 Mbps (2026) · Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026)

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

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

70% of people in Italy live in cities, versus 56% in the Philippines

Italy: 70% (2025) · Philippines: 56% (2025)

Italy has 133 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, the Philippines 115

Italy: 133 (2024) · Philippines: 115 (2024)

Italy’s railway network is 34 times as long as the Philippines’

Italy: 17,305 km (2021) · Philippines: 509 km (2016)

Airlines from the Philippines fly 3% more passengers per resident than those from Italy

Italy: 0.34 (2023) · Philippines: 0.36 (2023)

Forest covers 32% of Italy, but only 25% of the Philippines

Italy: 31.8% (2024) · Philippines: 24.8% (2024)

The average person in Italy emits 3.4 times as much CO₂ as someone in the Philippines

Italy: 5.1 t (2024) · Philippines: 1.5 t (2024)

49% of Italy’s electricity is renewable, versus 23% in the Philippines

Italy: 48.8% (2025) · Philippines: 23.3% (2025)

The air in the Philippines carries 52% more fine dust than in Italy

Italy: 15.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 7.7 times as likely to be murdered in the Philippines as in Italy

Italy: 0.6 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 4.3 per 100k (2023)

Roads in the Philippines are 62% deadlier than in Italy

Italy: 8.5 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 12.5 °C warmer than Italy

Italy: 13.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Philippines gets 2.9 times as much rain as Italy

Italy: 1,030 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg)