Sweden’s coastline is 6.2 times as long as Ivory Coast’s

Ivory Coast: 515 km (2026 edition) · Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition)

Sweden’s highest peak towers 348 m above Ivory Coast’s

Ivory Coast: 1,752 m (2026 edition) · Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 84% of Ivory Coast, versus 7.3% of Sweden

Ivory Coast: 83.9% (2024) · Sweden: 7.3% (2024)

Ivory Coast has 3.1 times as many people as Sweden

Ivory Coast: 32.7 million (2025) · Sweden: 10.6 million (2025)

Ivory Coast is 4 times as densely populated as Sweden

Ivory Coast: 103 per km² (2025) · Sweden: 26 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sweden is 22 years older than in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 18.1 years (2023) · Sweden: 39.9 years (2023)

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

Ivory Coast: 4.23 children per woman (2024) · Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Sweden are 65 or older, versus 2.7% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 2.7% (2025) · Sweden: 20.9% (2025)

Sweden hosts 6 times as many refugees per resident as Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 2.3 per 1,000 (2025) · Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Sweden has produced 28.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ivory Coast none

Ivory Coast: 0 (2026) · Sweden: 28.3 (2026)

Ivory Coast and Sweden are practically level

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

Sweden’s economy is 6.7 times the size of Ivory Coast’s

Ivory Coast: $99.8 billion (2025) · Sweden: $669 billion (2025)

Sweden produces 8.8 times as much per person as Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: Int$8,209 (2025) · Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Ivory Coast than in Sweden (Gini 6 points higher)

Ivory Coast: 35.3 (2021) · Sweden: 29.3 (2023)

21% of people in Ivory Coast live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.8% in Sweden

Ivory Coast: 20.8% (2021) · Sweden: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.7% in Sweden, versus 2.3% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 2.3% (2025) · Sweden: 8.7% (2025)

Sweden spends 2.5% of its GDP on the military, Ivory Coast 0.8%

Ivory Coast: 0.8% (2025) · Sweden: 2.5% (2025)

Sweden’s central government collects 27% of GDP in tax, Ivory Coast’s 13%

Ivory Coast: 13% (2023) · Sweden: 27.2% (2024)

Sweden’s price level (US = 100) is 2.3× Ivory Coast’s

Ivory Coast: 37% (2025) · Sweden: 87% (2025)

Sweden spends 74 times as much on health per person as Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: $88 (2023) · Sweden: $6,485 (2024)

A baby in Ivory Coast is 22 times as likely to die before turning one as in Sweden

Ivory Coast: 44.8 per 1,000 (2024) · Sweden: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Sweden has 27 times as many doctors per person as Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 0.2 per 1,000 (2023) · Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021)

Ivory Coast: no data · Sweden: 1.9 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Ivory Coast is 30% higher than in Sweden

Ivory Coast: 16.5 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023)

19% of adults in Sweden are obese, versus 12% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 12% (2024) · Sweden: 18.7% (2024)

20% of adults in Sweden smoke, versus 7.3% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 7.3% (2024) · Sweden: 20.3% (2024)

People in Sweden rate their lives 2.11 points higher than in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 5.15 (2025) · Sweden: 7.26 (2025)

Adults in Sweden drink 2.1 times as much alcohol as in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 4.2 litres (2023) · Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023)

Sweden has 5.7 times as much meat per person as Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 12 kg (2023) · Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023)

Sweden has 429 kcal more food per person per day than Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 2,938 kcal (2023) · Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023)

Workers in Ivory Coast put in 672 more hours a year than in Sweden

Ivory Coast: 2,103 hours (2023) · Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023)

Adults in Sweden went to school 7.9 years longer than in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 4.9 years (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 years (2023)

Ivory Coast: no data · Sweden: 0.63 (2022)

Sweden has 10 more World Heritage sites than Ivory Coast (15 against 5)

Ivory Coast: 5 (2026) · Sweden: 15 (2026)

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, Ivory Coast 5

Ivory Coast: 5 (2026 edition) · Sweden: 709 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Sweden are online, versus 41% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 41% (2024) · Sweden: 96% (2025)

Home internet in Sweden is 2.9 times as fast as in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 85 Mbps (2026) · Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026)

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

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

89% of people in Sweden live in cities, versus 55% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 55% (2025) · Sweden: 89% (2025)

Ivory Coast has 184 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Sweden 141

Ivory Coast: 184 (2024) · Sweden: 141 (2024)

Sweden’s railway network is 15 times as long as Ivory Coast’s

Ivory Coast: 639 km (2021) · Sweden: 9,714 km (2021)

Airlines from Sweden fly 84 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 0.02 (2023) · Sweden: 1.85 (2023)

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 12% of Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 12.1% (2024) · Sweden: 68.6% (2024)

The average person in Sweden emits 7.7 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ivory Coast

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

71% of Sweden’s electricity is renewable, versus 29% in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: 28.9% (2024) · Sweden: 71.2% (2025)

The air in Ivory Coast carries 3.5 times as much fine dust as in Sweden

Ivory Coast: 20.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024)

Ivory Coast: no data · Sweden: 1.1 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Ivory Coast are 9.1 times as deadly as in Sweden

Ivory Coast: 30.9 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023)

Ivory Coast is on average 22.5 °C warmer than Sweden

Ivory Coast: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 4.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Ivory Coast gets 53% more rain than Sweden

Ivory Coast: 1,226 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 801 mm (2016–2025 avg)