Italy’s coastline is 5.7 times as long as Sri Lanka’s

Italy: 7,600 km (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 1,340 km (2026 edition)

Italy’s highest peak towers 2,224 m above Sri Lanka’s

Italy: 4,748 m (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2,524 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 49% of Sri Lanka, versus 44% of Italy

Italy: 43.6% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 48.8% (2024)

Italy has 2.7 times as many people as Sri Lanka

Italy: 58.9 million (2025) · Sri Lanka: 21.8 million (2025)

Sri Lanka is 77% more densely populated than Italy

Italy: 199 per km² (2025) · Sri Lanka: 352 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Italy is 15 years older than in Sri Lanka

Italy: 47.5 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 32.8 years (2023)

Women in Sri Lanka have 0.8 more children on average than in Italy

Italy: 1.18 children per woman (2024) · Sri Lanka: 1.95 children per woman (2024)

25% of people in Italy are 65 or older, versus 12% in Sri Lanka

Italy: 25.1% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 12.5% (2025)

Italy hosts 334 times as many refugees per resident as Sri Lanka

Italy: 3.3 per 1,000 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 0.0098 per 1,000 (2025)

Italy has produced 3.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Sri Lanka none

Italy: 3.4 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 0 (2026)

Sri Lanka has 2 official languages, Italy 1

Italy: 1 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026)

Italy’s economy is 23 times the size of Sri Lanka’s

Italy: $2.55 trillion (2025) · Sri Lanka: $109 billion (2025)

Italy produces 3.7 times as much per person as Sri Lanka

Italy: Int$62,803 (2025) · Sri Lanka: Int$17,065 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Sri Lanka than in Italy (Gini 3.4 points higher)

Italy: 34.3 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 37.7 (2019)

2.7% of people in Sri Lanka live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.9% in Italy

Italy: 0.9% (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2.7% (2019)

Unemployment is 6.4% in Italy, versus 4.0% in Sri Lanka

Italy: 6.4% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4% (2025)

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

Italy: 1.9% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 1.3% (2025)

Italy’s central government collects 26% of GDP in tax, Sri Lanka’s 9.9%

Italy: 25.6% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 9.9% (2023)

Italy’s price level (US = 100) is 2.4× Sri Lanka’s

Italy: 69% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 29% (2025)

Italy spends 25 times as much on health per person as Sri Lanka

Italy: $3,398 (2024) · Sri Lanka: $134 (2023)

A baby in Sri Lanka is 2.3 times as likely to die before turning one as in Italy

Italy: 2.3 per 1,000 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 5.2 per 1,000 (2024)

Italy has 3.7 times as many doctors per person as Sri Lanka

Italy: 4.2 per 1,000 (2022) · Sri Lanka: 1.1 per 1,000 (2023)

Sri Lanka has 28% more hospital beds per person than Italy

Italy: 3.1 per 1,000 (2022) · Sri Lanka: 3.9 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Sri Lanka is 2.5 times that in Italy

Italy: 5.7 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 14 per 100k (2023)

18% of adults in Italy are obese, versus 11% in Sri Lanka

Italy: 17.9% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 11.2% (2024)

22% of adults in Italy smoke, versus 21% in Sri Lanka

Italy: 22.4% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7% (2024)

People in Italy rate their lives 2.56 points higher than in Sri Lanka

Italy: 6.57 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4.01 (2025)

Adults in Italy drink 3.4 times as much alcohol as in Sri Lanka

Italy: 8.4 litres (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2.5 litres (2023)

Italy has 6.2 times as much meat per person as Sri Lanka

Italy: 71.2 kg (2023) · Sri Lanka: 11.6 kg (2023)

Italy has 1,078 kcal more food per person per day than Sri Lanka

Italy: 3,753 kcal (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,675 kcal (2023)

Workers in Sri Lanka put in 352 more hours a year than in Italy

Italy: 1,701 hours (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,053 hours (2023)

Adults in Italy went to school 0.06 years longer than in Sri Lanka

Italy: 10.8 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 10.8 years (2023)

Italy welcomed 30 times as many tourists per resident as Sri Lanka (2019)

Italy: 0.98 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 0.03 (2022)

Italy has 54 more World Heritage sites than Sri Lanka (62 against 8)

Italy: 62 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 8 (2026)

Italy has won 829 Olympic medals, Sri Lanka 2

Italy: 829 (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026 edition)

89% of people in Italy are online, versus 55% in Sri Lanka

Italy: 89% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 55% (2024)

Home internet in Italy is 4.4 times as fast as in Sri Lanka

Italy: 274 Mbps (2026) · Sri Lanka: 63 Mbps (2026)

Italy and Sri Lanka are practically level

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

70% of people in Italy live in cities, versus 20% in Sri Lanka

Italy: 70% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 20% (2025)

Italy and Sri Lanka are practically level

Italy: 133 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 133 (2024)

Italy’s railway network is 11 times as long as Sri Lanka’s

Italy: 17,305 km (2021) · Sri Lanka: 1,562 km (2019)

Airlines from Italy fly 94% more passengers per resident than those from Sri Lanka

Italy: 0.34 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 0.18 (2023)

Forest covers 34% of Sri Lanka, but only 32% of Italy

Italy: 31.8% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 34.4% (2024)

The average person in Italy emits 5.6 times as much CO₂ as someone in Sri Lanka

Italy: 5.1 t (2024) · Sri Lanka: 0.9 t (2024)

62% of Sri Lanka’s electricity is renewable, versus 49% in Italy

Italy: 48.8% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 61.6% (2025)

The air in Sri Lanka carries 36% more fine dust than in Italy

Italy: 15.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 5.8 times as likely to be murdered in Sri Lanka as in Italy

Italy: 0.6 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 3.3 per 100k (2019)

Roads in Sri Lanka are 2.5 times as deadly as in Italy

Italy: 8.5 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 21.1 per 100k (2023)

Sri Lanka is on average 12.9 °C warmer than Italy

Italy: 13.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Sri Lanka gets 79% more rain than Italy

Italy: 1,030 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 1,839 mm (2016–2025 avg)