Saudi Arabia’s coastline is 4.9 times as long as Kenya’s

Kenya: 536 km (2026 edition) · Saudi Arabia: 2,640 km (2026 edition)

Kenya’s highest peak towers 2,199 m above Saudi Arabia’s

Kenya: 5,199 m (2026 edition) · Saudi Arabia: 3,000 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 82% of Saudi Arabia, versus 50% of Kenya

Kenya: 50% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 81.7% (2024)

Kenya has 56% more people than Saudi Arabia

Kenya: 57.5 million (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 37 million (2025)

Kenya is 5.8 times as densely populated as Saudi Arabia

Kenya: 99 per km² (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 17 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Saudi Arabia is 9.7 years older than in Kenya

Kenya: 19.5 years (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 29.2 years (2023)

Women in Kenya have 0.9 more children on average than in Saudi Arabia

Kenya: 3.17 children per woman (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 2.31 children per woman (2024)

Saudi Arabia and Kenya are practically level

Kenya: 3% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 3.1% (2025)

Kenya hosts 885 times as many refugees per resident as Saudi Arabia

Kenya: 10.7 per 1,000 (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 0.012 per 1,000 (2025)

Kenya has produced 0.2 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Saudi Arabia none

Kenya: 0.2 (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 0 (2026)

Kenya has 2 official languages, Saudi Arabia 1

Kenya: 2 (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 1 (2026)

Saudi Arabia’s economy is 9.4 times the size of Kenya’s

Kenya: $136 billion (2025) · Saudi Arabia: $1.28 trillion (2025)

Saudi Arabia produces 11 times as much per person as Kenya

Kenya: Int$7,016 (2025) · Saudi Arabia: Int$73,784 (2025)

Kenya: 38.5 (2022) · Saudi Arabia: no data

Kenya: 45.5% (2022) · Saudi Arabia: no data

Unemployment is 5.4% in Kenya, versus 3.0% in Saudi Arabia

Kenya: 5.4% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 3% (2025)

Saudi Arabia spends 6.5% of its GDP on the military, Kenya 1.1%

Kenya: 1.1% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 6.5% (2025)

Kenya’s central government collects 14% of GDP in tax, Saudi Arabia’s 8.1%

Kenya: 14.1% (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 8.1% (2024)

Saudi Arabia’s price level (US = 100) is 1.4× Kenya’s

Kenya: 34% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 47% (2025)

Saudi Arabia spends 21 times as much on health per person as Kenya

Kenya: $85 (2023) · Saudi Arabia: $1,825 (2023)

A baby in Kenya is 7.3 times as likely to die before turning one as in Saudi Arabia

Kenya: 34.2 per 1,000 (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 4.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Saudi Arabia has 12 times as many doctors per person as Kenya

Kenya: 0.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 3.4 per 1,000 (2023)

Saudi Arabia has 81% more hospital beds per person than Kenya

Kenya: 1.3 per 1,000 (2019) · Saudi Arabia: 2.4 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Kenya is 8.7 times that in Saudi Arabia

Kenya: 19.1 per 100k (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 2.2 per 100k (2023)

39% of adults in Saudi Arabia are obese, versus 10% in Kenya

Kenya: 10.4% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 39.2% (2024)

15% of adults in Saudi Arabia smoke, versus 9.6% in Kenya

Kenya: 9.6% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 14.7% (2024)

People in Saudi Arabia rate their lives 2.14 points higher than in Kenya

Kenya: 4.67 (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 6.82 (2025)

Kenya: 2.2 litres (2023) · Saudi Arabia: no data

Saudi Arabia has 5.7 times as much meat per person as Kenya

Kenya: 10.2 kg (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 58.1 kg (2023)

Saudi Arabia has 1,514 kcal more food per person per day than Kenya

Kenya: 2,146 kcal (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 3,660 kcal (2023)

Workers in Saudi Arabia put in 90 more hours a year than in Kenya

Kenya: 2,035 hours (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 2,125 hours (2023)

Adults in Saudi Arabia went to school 3 years longer than in Kenya

Kenya: 8.6 years (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 11.6 years (2023)

Saudi Arabia welcomed 30 times as many tourists per resident as Kenya (2019)

Kenya: 0.03 (2017) · Saudi Arabia: 0.84 (2024)

Kenya and Saudi Arabia are practically level

Kenya: 8 (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 8 (2026)

Kenya has won 124 Olympic medals, Saudi Arabia 4

Kenya: 124 (2026 edition) · Saudi Arabia: 4 (2026 edition)

100% of people in Saudi Arabia are online, versus 35% in Kenya

Kenya: 35% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 100% (2024)

Home internet in Saudi Arabia is 4.8 times as fast as in Kenya

Kenya: 41 Mbps (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 196 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Saudi Arabia have electricity, versus 77% in Kenya

Kenya: 77% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 100% (2024)

85% of people in Saudi Arabia live in cities, versus 32% in Kenya

Kenya: 32% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 85% (2025)

Saudi Arabia has 160 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Kenya 126

Kenya: 126 (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 160 (2024)

Kenya’s railway network is 30% longer than Saudi Arabia’s

Kenya: 3,819 km (2018) · Saudi Arabia: 2,939 km (2018)

Airlines from Saudi Arabia fly 15 times as many passengers per resident as those from Kenya

Kenya: 0.09 (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 1.3 (2023)

Forest covers 6.6% of Kenya, but only 1.3% of Saudi Arabia

Kenya: 6.6% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 1.3% (2024)

The average person in Saudi Arabia emits 54 times as much CO₂ as someone in Kenya

Kenya: 0.4 t (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 20.4 t (2024)

90% of Kenya’s electricity is renewable, versus 2.2% in Saudi Arabia

Kenya: 90% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 2.2% (2024)

The air in Saudi Arabia carries 2.3 times as much fine dust as in Kenya

Kenya: 22 µg/m³ (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 50.4 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 5.2 times as likely to be murdered in Kenya as in Saudi Arabia

Kenya: 4.9 per 100k (2022) · Saudi Arabia: 0.9 per 100k (2019)

Roads in Kenya are 2.6 times as deadly as in Saudi Arabia

Kenya: 55.3 per 100k (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 21.4 per 100k (2023)

Saudi Arabia is on average 1.1 °C warmer than Kenya

Kenya: 25.7°C (2016–2025 avg) · Saudi Arabia: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Kenya gets 11 times as much rain as Saudi Arabia

Kenya: 696 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Saudi Arabia: 61 mm (2016–2025 avg)