The Philippines’ coastline is 68 times as long as Kenya’s

Kenya: 536 km (2026 edition) · Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition)

Kenya’s highest peak towers 2,245 m above the Philippines’

Kenya: 5,199 m (2026 edition) · Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 50% of Kenya, versus 43% of the Philippines

Kenya: 50% (2024) · Philippines: 42.7% (2024)

The Philippines has 2 times as many people as Kenya

Kenya: 57.5 million (2025) · Philippines: 117 million (2025)

The Philippines is 4 times as densely populated as Kenya

Kenya: 99 per km² (2025) · Philippines: 392 per km² (2025)

The typical person in the Philippines is 5.8 years older than in Kenya

Kenya: 19.5 years (2023) · Philippines: 25.3 years (2023)

Women in Kenya have 1.3 more children on average than in the Philippines

Kenya: 3.17 children per woman (2024) · Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024)

5.7% of people in the Philippines are 65 or older, versus 3.0% in Kenya

Kenya: 3% (2025) · Philippines: 5.7% (2025)

Kenya hosts 1,214 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Kenya: 10.7 per 1,000 (2025) · Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025)

Kenya has produced 0.2 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, the Philippines 0.1

Kenya: 0.2 (2026) · Philippines: 0.1 (2026)

Kenya and the Philippines are practically level

Kenya: 2 (2026) · Philippines: 2 (2026)

The Philippines’ economy is 3.6 times the size of Kenya’s

Kenya: $136 billion (2025) · Philippines: $487 billion (2025)

The Philippines produces 79% more per person than Kenya

Kenya: Int$7,016 (2025) · Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the Philippines than in Kenya (Gini 0.8 points higher)

Kenya: 38.5 (2022) · Philippines: 39.3 (2023)

46% of people in Kenya live on less than $3 a day, versus 5.3% in the Philippines

Kenya: 45.5% (2022) · Philippines: 5.3% (2023)

Unemployment is 5.4% in Kenya, versus 2.2% in the Philippines

Kenya: 5.4% (2025) · Philippines: 2.2% (2025)

The Philippines and Kenya are practically level

Kenya: 1.1% (2025) · Philippines: 1.3% (2025)

The Philippines and Kenya are practically level

Kenya: 14.1% (2023) · Philippines: 14.4% (2024)

Kenya’s price level (US = 100) is 1× the Philippines’

Kenya: 34% (2025) · Philippines: 33% (2025)

The Philippines spends 2.3 times as much on health per person as Kenya

Kenya: $85 (2023) · Philippines: $194 (2023)

A baby in Kenya is 58% more likely to die before turning one than in the Philippines

Kenya: 34.2 per 1,000 (2024) · Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024)

The Philippines has 2.7 times as many doctors per person as Kenya

Kenya: 0.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021)

Kenya has 37% more hospital beds per person than the Philippines

Kenya: 1.3 per 1,000 (2019) · Philippines: 1 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in Kenya is 6.2 times that in the Philippines

Kenya: 19.1 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023)

10% of adults in Kenya are obese, versus 9.7% in the Philippines

Kenya: 10.4% (2024) · Philippines: 9.7% (2024)

20% of adults in the Philippines smoke, versus 9.6% in Kenya

Kenya: 9.6% (2024) · Philippines: 19.9% (2024)

People in the Philippines rate their lives 1.53 points higher than in Kenya

Kenya: 4.67 (2025) · Philippines: 6.21 (2025)

Adults in the Philippines drink 2.7 times as much alcohol as in Kenya

Kenya: 2.2 litres (2023) · Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023)

The Philippines has 3.3 times as much meat per person as Kenya

Kenya: 10.2 kg (2023) · Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023)

The Philippines has 837 kcal more food per person per day than Kenya

Kenya: 2,146 kcal (2023) · Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023)

Workers in the Philippines put in 61 more hours a year than in Kenya

Kenya: 2,035 hours (2023) · Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023)

Adults in the Philippines went to school 1.4 years longer than in Kenya

Kenya: 8.6 years (2023) · Philippines: 10 years (2023)

Kenya welcomed 19% more tourists per resident than the Philippines (2019)

Kenya: 0.03 (2017) · Philippines: 0.02 (2022)

Kenya has 2 more World Heritage sites than the Philippines (8 against 6)

Kenya: 8 (2026) · Philippines: 6 (2026)

Kenya has won 124 Olympic medals, the Philippines 18

Kenya: 124 (2026 edition) · Philippines: 18 (2026 edition)

67% of people in the Philippines are online, versus 35% in Kenya

Kenya: 35% (2024) · Philippines: 67% (2024)

Home internet in the Philippines is 4 times as fast as in Kenya

Kenya: 41 Mbps (2026) · Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026)

95% of people in the Philippines have electricity, versus 77% in Kenya

Kenya: 77% (2024) · Philippines: 94.8% (2024)

56% of people in the Philippines live in cities, versus 32% in Kenya

Kenya: 32% (2025) · Philippines: 56% (2025)

Kenya has 126 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, the Philippines 115

Kenya: 126 (2024) · Philippines: 115 (2024)

Kenya’s railway network is 7.5 times as long as the Philippines’

Kenya: 3,819 km (2018) · Philippines: 509 km (2016)

Airlines from the Philippines fly 4 times as many passengers per resident as those from Kenya

Kenya: 0.09 (2023) · Philippines: 0.36 (2023)

Forest covers 25% of the Philippines, but only 6.6% of Kenya

Kenya: 6.6% (2024) · Philippines: 24.8% (2024)

The average person in the Philippines emits 4 times as much CO₂ as someone in Kenya

Kenya: 0.4 t (2024) · Philippines: 1.5 t (2024)

90% of Kenya’s electricity is renewable, versus 23% in the Philippines

Kenya: 90% (2025) · Philippines: 23.3% (2025)

The air in the Philippines carries 5% more fine dust than in Kenya

Kenya: 22 µg/m³ (2024) · Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 12% more likely to be murdered in Kenya than in the Philippines

Kenya: 4.9 per 100k (2022) · Philippines: 4.3 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Kenya are 4 times as deadly as in the Philippines

Kenya: 55.3 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 0.7 °C warmer than Kenya

Kenya: 25.7°C (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Philippines gets 4.3 times as much rain as Kenya

Kenya: 696 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg)