Portugal’s coastline is 3.3 times as long as Kenya’s

Kenya: 536 km (2026 edition) · Portugal: 1,793 km (2026 edition)

Kenya’s highest peak towers 2,848 m above Portugal’s

Kenya: 5,199 m (2026 edition) · Portugal: 2,351 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 50% of Kenya, versus 41% of Portugal

Kenya: 50% (2024) · Portugal: 41.3% (2024)

Kenya has 5.3 times as many people as Portugal

Kenya: 57.5 million (2025) · Portugal: 10.8 million (2025)

Portugal is 19% more densely populated than Kenya

Kenya: 99 per km² (2025) · Portugal: 118 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Portugal is 27 years older than in Kenya

Kenya: 19.5 years (2023) · Portugal: 46.2 years (2023)

Women in Kenya have 1.8 more children on average than in Portugal

Kenya: 3.17 children per woman (2024) · Portugal: 1.41 children per woman (2024)

25% of people in Portugal are 65 or older, versus 3.0% in Kenya

Kenya: 3% (2025) · Portugal: 24.9% (2025)

Kenya hosts 65% more refugees per resident than Portugal

Kenya: 10.7 per 1,000 (2025) · Portugal: 6.5 per 1,000 (2025)

Portugal has produced 1.9 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Kenya 0.2

Kenya: 0.2 (2026) · Portugal: 1.9 (2026)

Kenya has 2 official languages, Portugal 1

Kenya: 2 (2026) · Portugal: 1 (2026)

Portugal’s economy is 2.5 times the size of Kenya’s

Kenya: $136 billion (2025) · Portugal: $347 billion (2025)

Portugal produces 7.6 times as much per person as Kenya

Kenya: Int$7,016 (2025) · Portugal: Int$53,146 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Kenya than in Portugal (Gini 4.6 points higher)

Kenya: 38.5 (2022) · Portugal: 33.9 (2023)

46% of people in Kenya live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.4% in Portugal

Kenya: 45.5% (2022) · Portugal: 0.4% (2023)

Unemployment is 6.2% in Portugal, versus 5.4% in Kenya

Kenya: 5.4% (2025) · Portugal: 6.2% (2025)

Portugal spends 1.7% of its GDP on the military, Kenya 1.1%

Kenya: 1.1% (2025) · Portugal: 1.7% (2025)

Portugal’s central government collects 22% of GDP in tax, Kenya’s 14%

Kenya: 14.1% (2023) · Portugal: 22.3% (2024)

Portugal’s price level (US = 100) is 1.8× Kenya’s

Kenya: 34% (2025) · Portugal: 60% (2025)

Portugal spends 35 times as much on health per person as Kenya

Kenya: $85 (2023) · Portugal: $2,971 (2024)

A baby in Kenya is 13 times as likely to die before turning one as in Portugal

Kenya: 34.2 per 1,000 (2024) · Portugal: 2.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Portugal has 20 times as many doctors per person as Kenya

Kenya: 0.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Portugal: 5.9 per 1,000 (2022)

Portugal has 2.6 times as many hospital beds per person as Kenya

Kenya: 1.3 per 1,000 (2019) · Portugal: 3.5 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Kenya is 2.2 times that in Portugal

Kenya: 19.1 per 100k (2023) · Portugal: 8.6 per 100k (2023)

23% of adults in Portugal are obese, versus 10% in Kenya

Kenya: 10.4% (2024) · Portugal: 23% (2024)

29% of adults in Portugal smoke, versus 9.6% in Kenya

Kenya: 9.6% (2024) · Portugal: 28.6% (2024)

People in Portugal rate their lives 1.35 points higher than in Kenya

Kenya: 4.67 (2025) · Portugal: 6.03 (2025)

Adults in Portugal drink 6.1 times as much alcohol as in Kenya

Kenya: 2.2 litres (2023) · Portugal: 13.7 litres (2023)

Portugal has 9.8 times as much meat per person as Kenya

Kenya: 10.2 kg (2023) · Portugal: 99.3 kg (2023)

Portugal has 1,407 kcal more food per person per day than Kenya

Kenya: 2,146 kcal (2023) · Portugal: 3,553 kcal (2023)

Workers in Kenya put in 300 more hours a year than in Portugal

Kenya: 2,035 hours (2023) · Portugal: 1,735 hours (2023)

Adults in Portugal went to school 1.1 years longer than in Kenya

Kenya: 8.6 years (2023) · Portugal: 9.7 years (2023)

Portugal welcomed 98 times as many tourists per resident as Kenya (2019)

Kenya: 0.03 (2017) · Portugal: 2.71 (2024)

Portugal has 9 more World Heritage sites than Kenya (17 against 8)

Kenya: 8 (2026) · Portugal: 17 (2026)

Kenya has won 124 Olympic medals, Portugal 32

Kenya: 124 (2026 edition) · Portugal: 32 (2026 edition)

88% of people in Portugal are online, versus 35% in Kenya

Kenya: 35% (2024) · Portugal: 88% (2024)

Home internet in Portugal is 8 times as fast as in Kenya

Kenya: 41 Mbps (2026) · Portugal: 330 Mbps (2026)

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

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

61% of people in Portugal live in cities, versus 32% in Kenya

Kenya: 32% (2025) · Portugal: 61% (2025)

Kenya has 126 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Portugal 124

Kenya: 126 (2024) · Portugal: 124 (2024)

Kenya’s railway network is 51% longer than Portugal’s

Kenya: 3,819 km (2018) · Portugal: 2,527 km (2021)

Airlines from Portugal fly 19 times as many passengers per resident as those from Kenya

Kenya: 0.09 (2023) · Portugal: 1.69 (2023)

Forest covers 37% of Portugal, but only 6.6% of Kenya

Kenya: 6.6% (2024) · Portugal: 36.6% (2024)

The average person in Portugal emits 9.1 times as much CO₂ as someone in Kenya

Kenya: 0.4 t (2024) · Portugal: 3.4 t (2024)

90% of Kenya’s electricity is renewable, versus 81% in Portugal

Kenya: 90% (2025) · Portugal: 81% (2025)

The air in Kenya carries 2.1 times as much fine dust as in Portugal

Kenya: 22 µg/m³ (2024) · Portugal: 10.5 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 6.8 times as likely to be murdered in Kenya as in Portugal

Kenya: 4.9 per 100k (2022) · Portugal: 0.7 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Kenya are 5 times as deadly as in Portugal

Kenya: 55.3 per 100k (2023) · Portugal: 11 per 100k (2023)

Kenya is on average 9.8 °C warmer than Portugal

Kenya: 25.7°C (2016–2025 avg) · Portugal: 15.9°C (2016–2025 avg)

Portugal gets 12% more rain than Kenya

Kenya: 696 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Portugal: 777 mm (2016–2025 avg)