Kenya’s coastline is 9% longer than the Seychelles’

Kenya: 536 km (2026 edition) · Seychelles: 491 km (2026 edition)

Kenya’s highest peak towers 4,294 m above the Seychelles’

Kenya: 5,199 m (2026 edition) · Seychelles: 905 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 50% of Kenya, versus 3.4% of the Seychelles

Kenya: 50% (2024) · Seychelles: 3.4% (2024)

Kenya has 469 times as many people as the Seychelles

Kenya: 57.5 million (2025) · Seychelles: 122,730 (2025)

The Seychelles is 2.7 times as densely populated as Kenya

Kenya: 99 per km² (2025) · Seychelles: 269 per km² (2025)

The typical person in the Seychelles is 14 years older than in Kenya

Kenya: 19.5 years (2023) · Seychelles: 33.7 years (2023)

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

Kenya: 3.17 children per woman (2024) · Seychelles: 1.85 children per woman (2024)

8.7% of people in the Seychelles are 65 or older, versus 3.0% in Kenya

Kenya: 3% (2025) · Seychelles: 8.7% (2025)

Kenya: 10.7 per 1,000 (2025) · Seychelles: no data

Kenya: 0.2 (2026) · Seychelles: no data

The Seychelles has 3 official languages, Kenya 2

Kenya: 2 (2026) · Seychelles: 3 (2026)

Kenya’s economy is 57 times the size of the Seychelles’

Kenya: $136 billion (2025) · Seychelles: $2.39 billion (2025)

The Seychelles produces 5.1 times as much per person as Kenya

Kenya: Int$7,016 (2025) · Seychelles: Int$35,854 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Kenya than in the Seychelles (Gini 6.4 points higher)

Kenya: 38.5 (2022) · Seychelles: 32.1 (2018)

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

Kenya: 45.5% (2022) · Seychelles: 0.7% (2018)

Kenya: 5.4% (2025) · Seychelles: no data

The Seychelles and Kenya are practically level

Kenya: 1.1% (2025) · Seychelles: 1.2% (2025)

Kenya: 14.1% (2023) · Seychelles: no data

The Seychelles’ price level (US = 100) is 1.6× Kenya’s

Kenya: 34% (2025) · Seychelles: 54% (2025)

The Seychelles spends 9 times as much on health per person as Kenya

Kenya: $85 (2023) · Seychelles: $766 (2023)

A baby in Kenya is 2.7 times as likely to die before turning one as in the Seychelles

Kenya: 34.2 per 1,000 (2024) · Seychelles: 12.9 per 1,000 (2024)

The Seychelles has 23 times as many doctors per person as Kenya

Kenya: 0.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Seychelles: 6.6 per 1,000 (2022)

The Seychelles has 2 times as many hospital beds per person as Kenya

Kenya: 1.3 per 1,000 (2019) · Seychelles: 2.6 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Kenya is 2.3 times that in the Seychelles

Kenya: 19.1 per 100k (2023) · Seychelles: 8.4 per 100k (2023)

35% of adults in the Seychelles are obese, versus 10% in Kenya

Kenya: 10.4% (2024) · Seychelles: 34.9% (2024)

17% of adults in the Seychelles smoke, versus 9.6% in Kenya

Kenya: 9.6% (2024) · Seychelles: 17.3% (2024)

Kenya: 4.67 (2025) · Seychelles: no data

Adults in the Seychelles drink 4 times as much alcohol as in Kenya

Kenya: 2.2 litres (2023) · Seychelles: 9 litres (2023)

The Seychelles has 6.9 times as much meat per person as Kenya

Kenya: 10.2 kg (2023) · Seychelles: 70.7 kg (2023)

The Seychelles has 742 kcal more food per person per day than Kenya

Kenya: 2,146 kcal (2023) · Seychelles: 2,888 kcal (2023)

Kenya: 2,035 hours (2023) · Seychelles: no data

Adults in the Seychelles went to school 2.6 years longer than in Kenya

Kenya: 8.6 years (2023) · Seychelles: 11.2 years (2023)

The Seychelles welcomed 100 times as many tourists per resident as Kenya (2019)

Kenya: 0.03 (2017) · Seychelles: 2.77 (2022)

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

Kenya: 8 (2026) · Seychelles: 2 (2026)

Kenya has won 124 Olympic medals, the Seychelles none

Kenya: 124 (2026 edition) · Seychelles: 0 (2026 edition)

88% of people in the Seychelles are online, versus 35% in Kenya

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

Home internet in the Seychelles is 3.4 times as fast as in Kenya

Kenya: 41 Mbps (2026) · Seychelles: 139 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in the Seychelles have electricity, versus 77% in Kenya

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

45% of people in the Seychelles live in cities, versus 32% in Kenya

Kenya: 32% (2025) · Seychelles: 45% (2025)

Kenya has 126 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, the Seychelles 126

Kenya: 126 (2024) · Seychelles: 126 (2024)

Kenya: 3,819 km (2018) · Seychelles: no data

Airlines from the Seychelles fly 22 times as many passengers per resident as those from Kenya

Kenya: 0.09 (2023) · Seychelles: 1.93 (2023)

Forest covers 59% of the Seychelles, but only 6.6% of Kenya

Kenya: 6.6% (2024) · Seychelles: 58.5% (2024)

The average person in the Seychelles emits 13 times as much CO₂ as someone in Kenya

Kenya: 0.4 t (2024) · Seychelles: 5 t (2024)

90% of Kenya’s electricity is renewable, versus 16% in the Seychelles

Kenya: 90% (2025) · Seychelles: 15.9% (2024)

The air in Kenya carries 3.2 times as much fine dust as in the Seychelles

Kenya: 22 µg/m³ (2024) · Seychelles: 6.9 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 64% more likely to be murdered in the Seychelles than in Kenya

Kenya: 4.9 per 100k (2022) · Seychelles: 8 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Kenya are 5.3 times as deadly as in the Seychelles

Kenya: 55.3 per 100k (2023) · Seychelles: 10.4 per 100k (2023)

The Seychelles is on average 1.0 °C warmer than Kenya

Kenya: 25.7°C (2016–2025 avg) · Seychelles: 26.7°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Seychelles gets 2.8 times as much rain as Kenya

Kenya: 696 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Seychelles: 1,948 mm (2016–2025 avg)