Kenya’s coastline is 2.4 times as long as Romania’s

Kenya: 536 km (2026 edition) · Romania: 225 km (2026 edition)

Kenya’s highest peak towers 2,655 m above Romania’s

Kenya: 5,199 m (2026 edition) · Romania: 2,544 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 55% of Romania, versus 50% of Kenya

Kenya: 50% (2024) · Romania: 55.2% (2024)

Kenya has 3 times as many people as Romania

Kenya: 57.5 million (2025) · Romania: 19 million (2025)

Kenya is 20% more densely populated than Romania

Kenya: 99 per km² (2025) · Romania: 83 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Romania is 23 years older than in Kenya

Kenya: 19.5 years (2023) · Romania: 42.6 years (2023)

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

Kenya: 3.17 children per woman (2024) · Romania: 1.39 children per woman (2024)

20% of people in Romania are 65 or older, versus 3.0% in Kenya

Kenya: 3% (2025) · Romania: 20.1% (2025)

Romania hosts 1% more refugees per resident than Kenya

Kenya: 10.7 per 1,000 (2025) · Romania: 10.9 per 1,000 (2025)

Romania has produced 2.1 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Kenya 0.2

Kenya: 0.2 (2026) · Romania: 2.1 (2026)

Kenya has 2 official languages, Romania 1

Kenya: 2 (2026) · Romania: 1 (2026)

Romania’s economy is 3.2 times the size of Kenya’s

Kenya: $136 billion (2025) · Romania: $429 billion (2025)

Romania produces 7.3 times as much per person as Kenya

Kenya: Int$7,016 (2025) · Romania: Int$50,895 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Kenya than in Romania (Gini 8.7 points higher)

Kenya: 38.5 (2022) · Romania: 29.8 (2023)

46% of people in Kenya live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.7% in Romania

Kenya: 45.5% (2022) · Romania: 0.7% (2023)

Unemployment is 6.0% in Romania, versus 5.4% in Kenya

Kenya: 5.4% (2025) · Romania: 6% (2025)

Romania spends 2.3% of its GDP on the military, Kenya 1.1%

Kenya: 1.1% (2025) · Romania: 2.3% (2025)

Romania’s central government collects 16% of GDP in tax, Kenya’s 14%

Kenya: 14.1% (2023) · Romania: 16.2% (2024)

Romania’s price level (US = 100) is 1.3× Kenya’s

Kenya: 34% (2025) · Romania: 44% (2025)

Romania spends 12 times as much on health per person as Kenya

Kenya: $85 (2023) · Romania: $1,051 (2023)

A baby in Kenya is 5.7 times as likely to die before turning one as in Romania

Kenya: 34.2 per 1,000 (2024) · Romania: 6 per 1,000 (2024)

Romania has 13 times as many doctors per person as Kenya

Kenya: 0.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Romania: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022)

Romania has 5.4 times as many hospital beds per person as Kenya

Kenya: 1.3 per 1,000 (2019) · Romania: 7.2 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Kenya is 2.3 times that in Romania

Kenya: 19.1 per 100k (2023) · Romania: 8.2 per 100k (2023)

38% of adults in Romania are obese, versus 10% in Kenya

Kenya: 10.4% (2024) · Romania: 37.7% (2024)

30% of adults in Romania smoke, versus 9.6% in Kenya

Kenya: 9.6% (2024) · Romania: 29.7% (2024)

People in Romania rate their lives 1.95 points higher than in Kenya

Kenya: 4.67 (2025) · Romania: 6.63 (2025)

Adults in Romania drink 7.6 times as much alcohol as in Kenya

Kenya: 2.2 litres (2023) · Romania: 17.1 litres (2023)

Romania has 7.1 times as much meat per person as Kenya

Kenya: 10.2 kg (2023) · Romania: 72.5 kg (2023)

Romania has 1,503 kcal more food per person per day than Kenya

Kenya: 2,146 kcal (2023) · Romania: 3,649 kcal (2023)

Workers in Kenya put in 209 more hours a year than in Romania

Kenya: 2,035 hours (2023) · Romania: 1,826 hours (2023)

Adults in Romania went to school 2.9 years longer than in Kenya

Kenya: 8.6 years (2023) · Romania: 11.6 years (2023)

Romania welcomed 25 times as many tourists per resident as Kenya (2019)

Kenya: 0.03 (2017) · Romania: 0.7 (2024)

Romania has 3 more World Heritage sites than Kenya (11 against 8)

Kenya: 8 (2026) · Romania: 11 (2026)

Romania has won 318 Olympic medals, Kenya 124

Kenya: 124 (2026 edition) · Romania: 318 (2026 edition)

91% of people in Romania are online, versus 35% in Kenya

Kenya: 35% (2024) · Romania: 91% (2024)

Home internet in Romania is 7.7 times as fast as in Kenya

Kenya: 41 Mbps (2026) · Romania: 316 Mbps (2026)

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

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

52% of people in Romania live in cities, versus 32% in Kenya

Kenya: 32% (2025) · Romania: 52% (2025)

Kenya has 126 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Romania 120

Kenya: 126 (2024) · Romania: 120 (2024)

Romania’s railway network is 2.8 times as long as Kenya’s

Kenya: 3,819 km (2018) · Romania: 10,769 km (2021)

Airlines from Romania fly 65% more passengers per resident than those from Kenya

Kenya: 0.09 (2023) · Romania: 0.15 (2023)

Forest covers 30% of Romania, but only 6.6% of Kenya

Kenya: 6.6% (2024) · Romania: 30.2% (2024)

The average person in Romania emits 9.6 times as much CO₂ as someone in Kenya

Kenya: 0.4 t (2024) · Romania: 3.6 t (2024)

90% of Kenya’s electricity is renewable, versus 47% in Romania

Kenya: 90% (2025) · Romania: 47% (2025)

The air in Kenya carries 54% more fine dust than in Romania

Kenya: 22 µg/m³ (2024) · Romania: 14.3 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 4.3 times as likely to be murdered in Kenya as in Romania

Kenya: 4.9 per 100k (2022) · Romania: 1.1 per 100k (2024)

Roads in Kenya are 4.1 times as deadly as in Romania

Kenya: 55.3 per 100k (2023) · Romania: 13.6 per 100k (2023)

Kenya is on average 14.7 °C warmer than Romania

Kenya: 25.7°C (2016–2025 avg) · Romania: 11°C (2016–2025 avg)

Romania gets 9% more rain than Kenya

Kenya: 696 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Romania: 758 mm (2016–2025 avg)