Norway’s coastline is 47 times as long as Kenya’s

Kenya: 536 km (2026 edition) · Norway: 25,148 km (2026 edition)

Kenya’s highest peak towers 2,730 m above Norway’s

Kenya: 5,199 m (2026 edition) · Norway: 2,469 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 50% of Kenya, versus 2.7% of Norway

Kenya: 50% (2024) · Norway: 2.7% (2024)

Kenya has 10 times as many people as Norway

Kenya: 57.5 million (2025) · Norway: 5.61 million (2025)

Kenya is 6.4 times as densely populated as Norway

Kenya: 99 per km² (2025) · Norway: 15 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Norway is 20 years older than in Kenya

Kenya: 19.5 years (2023) · Norway: 39.5 years (2023)

Women in Kenya have 1.7 more children on average than in Norway

Kenya: 3.17 children per woman (2024) · Norway: 1.45 children per woman (2024)

19% of people in Norway are 65 or older, versus 3.0% in Kenya

Kenya: 3% (2025) · Norway: 19.1% (2025)

Norway hosts 2.1 times as many refugees per resident as Kenya

Kenya: 10.7 per 1,000 (2025) · Norway: 22.1 per 1,000 (2025)

Norway has produced 23.2 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Kenya 0.2

Kenya: 0.2 (2026) · Norway: 23.2 (2026)

Norway has 3 official languages, Kenya 2

Kenya: 2 (2026) · Norway: 3 (2026)

Norway’s economy is 3.9 times the size of Kenya’s

Kenya: $136 billion (2025) · Norway: $531 billion (2025)

Norway produces 15 times as much per person as Kenya

Kenya: Int$7,016 (2025) · Norway: Int$104,044 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Kenya than in Norway (Gini 12 points higher)

Kenya: 38.5 (2022) · Norway: 26.5 (2023)

46% of people in Kenya live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.2% in Norway

Kenya: 45.5% (2022) · Norway: 0.2% (2023)

Unemployment is 5.4% in Kenya, versus 4.6% in Norway

Kenya: 5.4% (2025) · Norway: 4.6% (2025)

Norway spends 3.3% of its GDP on the military, Kenya 1.1%

Kenya: 1.1% (2025) · Norway: 3.3% (2025)

Norway’s central government collects 25% of GDP in tax, Kenya’s 14%

Kenya: 14.1% (2023) · Norway: 24.5% (2024)

Norway’s price level (US = 100) is 2.7× Kenya’s

Kenya: 34% (2025) · Norway: 91% (2025)

Norway spends 98 times as much on health per person as Kenya

Kenya: $85 (2023) · Norway: $8,296 (2023)

A baby in Kenya is 17 times as likely to die before turning one as in Norway

Kenya: 34.2 per 1,000 (2024) · Norway: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Norway has 17 times as many doctors per person as Kenya

Kenya: 0.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Norway: 5 per 1,000 (2023)

Norway has 2.5 times as many hospital beds per person as Kenya

Kenya: 1.3 per 1,000 (2019) · Norway: 3.3 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Kenya is 65% higher than in Norway

Kenya: 19.1 per 100k (2023) · Norway: 11.6 per 100k (2023)

21% of adults in Norway are obese, versus 10% in Kenya

Kenya: 10.4% (2024) · Norway: 20.7% (2024)

13% of adults in Norway smoke, versus 9.6% in Kenya

Kenya: 9.6% (2024) · Norway: 12.9% (2024)

People in Norway rate their lives 2.57 points higher than in Kenya

Kenya: 4.67 (2025) · Norway: 7.24 (2025)

Adults in Norway drink 3.1 times as much alcohol as in Kenya

Kenya: 2.2 litres (2023) · Norway: 7 litres (2023)

Norway has 6.9 times as much meat per person as Kenya

Kenya: 10.2 kg (2023) · Norway: 70.4 kg (2023)

Norway has 1,330 kcal more food per person per day than Kenya

Kenya: 2,146 kcal (2023) · Norway: 3,476 kcal (2023)

Workers in Kenya put in 623 more hours a year than in Norway

Kenya: 2,035 hours (2023) · Norway: 1,412 hours (2023)

Adults in Norway went to school 4.5 years longer than in Kenya

Kenya: 8.6 years (2023) · Norway: 13.1 years (2023)

Norway welcomed 33 times as many tourists per resident as Kenya (2019)

Kenya: 0.03 (2017) · Norway: 0.91 (2022)

Kenya and Norway are practically level

Kenya: 8 (2026) · Norway: 8 (2026)

Norway has won 616 Olympic medals, Kenya 124

Kenya: 124 (2026 edition) · Norway: 616 (2026 edition)

99% of people in Norway are online, versus 35% in Kenya

Kenya: 35% (2024) · Norway: 99% (2024)

Home internet in Norway is 5.5 times as fast as in Kenya

Kenya: 41 Mbps (2026) · Norway: 228 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Norway have electricity, versus 77% in Kenya

Kenya: 77% (2024) · Norway: 100% (2024)

84% of people in Norway live in cities, versus 32% in Kenya

Kenya: 32% (2025) · Norway: 84% (2025)

Kenya has 126 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Norway 109

Kenya: 126 (2024) · Norway: 109 (2024)

Norway’s railway network is 2% longer than Kenya’s

Kenya: 3,819 km (2018) · Norway: 3,885 km (2021)

Kenya: 0.09 (2023) · Norway: no data

Forest covers 33% of Norway, but only 6.6% of Kenya

Kenya: 6.6% (2024) · Norway: 33.2% (2024)

The average person in Norway emits 18 times as much CO₂ as someone in Kenya

Kenya: 0.4 t (2024) · Norway: 6.7 t (2024)

99% of Norway’s electricity is renewable, versus 90% in Kenya

Kenya: 90% (2025) · Norway: 99% (2025)

The air in Kenya carries 3.3 times as much fine dust as in Norway

Kenya: 22 µg/m³ (2024) · Norway: 6.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 6.7 times as likely to be murdered in Kenya as in Norway

Kenya: 4.9 per 100k (2022) · Norway: 0.7 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Kenya are 19 times as deadly as in Norway

Kenya: 55.3 per 100k (2023) · Norway: 2.9 per 100k (2023)

Kenya is on average 24.1 °C warmer than Norway

Kenya: 25.7°C (2016–2025 avg) · Norway: 1.6°C (2016–2025 avg)

Norway gets 81% more rain than Kenya

Kenya: 696 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Norway: 1,259 mm (2016–2025 avg)