Ivory Coast’s coastline is 2.3 times as long as Romania’s

Ivory Coast: 515 km (2026 edition) · Romania: 225 km (2026 edition)

Romania’s highest peak towers 792 m above Ivory Coast’s

Ivory Coast: 1,752 m (2026 edition) · Romania: 2,544 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 84% of Ivory Coast, versus 55% of Romania

Ivory Coast: 83.9% (2024) · Romania: 55.2% (2024)

Ivory Coast has 72% more people than Romania

Ivory Coast: 32.7 million (2025) · Romania: 19 million (2025)

Ivory Coast is 24% more densely populated than Romania

Ivory Coast: 103 per km² (2025) · Romania: 83 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Romania is 25 years older than in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 18.1 years (2023) · Romania: 42.6 years (2023)

Women in Ivory Coast have 2.8 more children on average than in Romania

Ivory Coast: 4.23 children per woman (2024) · Romania: 1.39 children per woman (2024)

20% of people in Romania are 65 or older, versus 2.7% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 2.7% (2025) · Romania: 20.1% (2025)

Romania hosts 4.8 times as many refugees per resident as Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 2.3 per 1,000 (2025) · Romania: 10.9 per 1,000 (2025)

Romania has produced 2.1 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ivory Coast none

Ivory Coast: 0 (2026) · Romania: 2.1 (2026)

Ivory Coast and Romania are practically level

Ivory Coast: 1 (2026) · Romania: 1 (2026)

Romania’s economy is 4.3 times the size of Ivory Coast’s

Ivory Coast: $99.8 billion (2025) · Romania: $429 billion (2025)

Romania produces 6.2 times as much per person as Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: Int$8,209 (2025) · Romania: Int$50,895 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Ivory Coast than in Romania (Gini 5.5 points higher)

Ivory Coast: 35.3 (2021) · Romania: 29.8 (2023)

21% of people in Ivory Coast live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.7% in Romania

Ivory Coast: 20.8% (2021) · Romania: 0.7% (2023)

Unemployment is 6.0% in Romania, versus 2.3% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 2.3% (2025) · Romania: 6% (2025)

Romania spends 2.3% of its GDP on the military, Ivory Coast 0.8%

Ivory Coast: 0.8% (2025) · Romania: 2.3% (2025)

Romania’s central government collects 16% of GDP in tax, Ivory Coast’s 13%

Ivory Coast: 13% (2023) · Romania: 16.2% (2024)

Romania’s price level (US = 100) is 1.2× Ivory Coast’s

Ivory Coast: 37% (2025) · Romania: 44% (2025)

Romania spends 12 times as much on health per person as Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: $88 (2023) · Romania: $1,051 (2023)

A baby in Ivory Coast is 7.5 times as likely to die before turning one as in Romania

Ivory Coast: 44.8 per 1,000 (2024) · Romania: 6 per 1,000 (2024)

Romania has 22 times as many doctors per person as Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 0.2 per 1,000 (2023) · Romania: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022)

Ivory Coast: no data · Romania: 7.2 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Ivory Coast is 2 times that in Romania

Ivory Coast: 16.5 per 100k (2023) · Romania: 8.2 per 100k (2023)

38% of adults in Romania are obese, versus 12% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 12% (2024) · Romania: 37.7% (2024)

30% of adults in Romania smoke, versus 7.3% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 7.3% (2024) · Romania: 29.7% (2024)

People in Romania rate their lives 1.48 points higher than in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 5.15 (2025) · Romania: 6.63 (2025)

Adults in Romania drink 4.1 times as much alcohol as in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 4.2 litres (2023) · Romania: 17.1 litres (2023)

Romania has 6 times as much meat per person as Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 12 kg (2023) · Romania: 72.5 kg (2023)

Romania has 711 kcal more food per person per day than Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 2,938 kcal (2023) · Romania: 3,649 kcal (2023)

Workers in Ivory Coast put in 277 more hours a year than in Romania

Ivory Coast: 2,103 hours (2023) · Romania: 1,826 hours (2023)

Adults in Romania went to school 6.7 years longer than in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 4.9 years (2023) · Romania: 11.6 years (2023)

Ivory Coast: no data · Romania: 0.7 (2024)

Romania has 6 more World Heritage sites than Ivory Coast (11 against 5)

Ivory Coast: 5 (2026) · Romania: 11 (2026)

Romania has won 318 Olympic medals, Ivory Coast 5

Ivory Coast: 5 (2026 edition) · Romania: 318 (2026 edition)

91% of people in Romania are online, versus 41% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 41% (2024) · Romania: 91% (2024)

Home internet in Romania is 3.7 times as fast as in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 85 Mbps (2026) · Romania: 316 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Romania have electricity, versus 73% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 72.9% (2024) · Romania: 100% (2024)

55% of people in Ivory Coast live in cities, versus 52% in Romania

Ivory Coast: 55% (2025) · Romania: 52% (2025)

Ivory Coast has 184 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Romania 120

Ivory Coast: 184 (2024) · Romania: 120 (2024)

Romania’s railway network is 17 times as long as Ivory Coast’s

Ivory Coast: 639 km (2021) · Romania: 10,769 km (2021)

Airlines from Romania fly 6.7 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 0.02 (2023) · Romania: 0.15 (2023)

Forest covers 30% of Romania, but only 12% of Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 12.1% (2024) · Romania: 30.2% (2024)

The average person in Romania emits 7.8 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 0.5 t (2024) · Romania: 3.6 t (2024)

47% of Romania’s electricity is renewable, versus 29% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 28.9% (2024) · Romania: 47% (2025)

The air in Ivory Coast carries 41% more fine dust than in Romania

Ivory Coast: 20.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Romania: 14.3 µg/m³ (2024)

Ivory Coast: no data · Romania: 1.1 per 100k (2024)

Roads in Ivory Coast are 2.3 times as deadly as in Romania

Ivory Coast: 30.9 per 100k (2023) · Romania: 13.6 per 100k (2023)

Ivory Coast is on average 15.8 °C warmer than Romania

Ivory Coast: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · Romania: 11°C (2016–2025 avg)

Ivory Coast gets 62% more rain than Romania

Ivory Coast: 1,226 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Romania: 758 mm (2016–2025 avg)