South Korea’s coastline is 4.5 times as long as Kenya’s

Kenya: 536 km (2026 edition) · South Korea: 2,413 km (2026 edition)

Kenya’s highest peak towers 3,249 m above South Korea’s

Kenya: 5,199 m (2026 edition) · South Korea: 1,950 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 50% of Kenya, versus 16% of South Korea

Kenya: 50% (2024) · South Korea: 16% (2024)

Kenya has 11% more people than South Korea

Kenya: 57.5 million (2025) · South Korea: 51.7 million (2025)

South Korea is 5.3 times as densely populated as Kenya

Kenya: 99 per km² (2025) · South Korea: 530 per km² (2025)

The typical person in South Korea is 25 years older than in Kenya

Kenya: 19.5 years (2023) · South Korea: 44.5 years (2023)

Women in Kenya have 2.4 more children on average than in South Korea

Kenya: 3.17 children per woman (2024) · South Korea: 0.75 children per woman (2024)

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

Kenya: 3% (2025) · South Korea: 20.3% (2025)

Kenya hosts 126 times as many refugees per resident as South Korea

Kenya: 10.7 per 1,000 (2025) · South Korea: 0.1 per 1,000 (2025)

South Korea has produced 0.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Kenya 0.2

Kenya: 0.2 (2026) · South Korea: 0.6 (2026)

Kenya has 2 official languages, South Korea 1

Kenya: 2 (2026) · South Korea: 1 (2026)

South Korea’s economy is 14 times the size of Kenya’s

Kenya: $136 billion (2025) · South Korea: $1.87 trillion (2025)

South Korea produces 9 times as much per person as Kenya

Kenya: Int$7,016 (2025) · South Korea: Int$63,125 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Kenya than in South Korea (Gini 5.6 points higher)

Kenya: 38.5 (2022) · South Korea: 32.9 (2021)

46% of people in Kenya live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.1% in South Korea

Kenya: 45.5% (2022) · South Korea: 0.1% (2021)

Unemployment is 5.4% in Kenya, versus 2.7% in South Korea

Kenya: 5.4% (2025) · South Korea: 2.7% (2025)

South Korea spends 2.6% of its GDP on the military, Kenya 1.1%

Kenya: 1.1% (2025) · South Korea: 2.6% (2025)

Kenya’s central government collects 14% of GDP in tax, South Korea’s 13%

Kenya: 14.1% (2023) · South Korea: 13.3% (2024)

South Korea’s price level (US = 100) is 1.7× Kenya’s

Kenya: 34% (2025) · South Korea: 57% (2025)

South Korea spends 37 times as much on health per person as Kenya

Kenya: $85 (2023) · South Korea: $3,137 (2024)

A baby in Kenya is 15 times as likely to die before turning one as in South Korea

Kenya: 34.2 per 1,000 (2024) · South Korea: 2.3 per 1,000 (2024)

South Korea has 9 times as many doctors per person as Kenya

Kenya: 0.3 per 1,000 (2023) · South Korea: 2.6 per 1,000 (2022)

South Korea has 9.6 times as many hospital beds per person as Kenya

Kenya: 1.3 per 1,000 (2019) · South Korea: 12.8 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in South Korea is 23% higher than in Kenya

Kenya: 19.1 per 100k (2023) · South Korea: 23.4 per 100k (2023)

10% of adults in Kenya are obese, versus 7.5% in South Korea

Kenya: 10.4% (2024) · South Korea: 7.5% (2024)

19% of adults in South Korea smoke, versus 9.6% in Kenya

Kenya: 9.6% (2024) · South Korea: 18.6% (2024)

People in South Korea rate their lives 1.37 points higher than in Kenya

Kenya: 4.67 (2025) · South Korea: 6.04 (2025)

Adults in South Korea drink 3.7 times as much alcohol as in Kenya

Kenya: 2.2 litres (2023) · South Korea: 8.3 litres (2023)

South Korea has 8.3 times as much meat per person as Kenya

Kenya: 10.2 kg (2023) · South Korea: 84 kg (2023)

South Korea has 1,284 kcal more food per person per day than Kenya

Kenya: 2,146 kcal (2023) · South Korea: 3,430 kcal (2023)

Workers in Kenya put in 124 more hours a year than in South Korea

Kenya: 2,035 hours (2023) · South Korea: 1,910 hours (2023)

Adults in South Korea went to school 4.1 years longer than in Kenya

Kenya: 8.6 years (2023) · South Korea: 12.7 years (2023)

South Korea welcomed 11 times as many tourists per resident as Kenya (2019)

Kenya: 0.03 (2017) · South Korea: 0.32 (2024)

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

Kenya: 8 (2026) · South Korea: 17 (2026)

South Korea has won 409 Olympic medals, Kenya 124

Kenya: 124 (2026 edition) · South Korea: 409 (2026 edition)

98% of people in South Korea are online, versus 35% in Kenya

Kenya: 35% (2024) · South Korea: 98% (2024)

Home internet in South Korea is 7.2 times as fast as in Kenya

Kenya: 41 Mbps (2026) · South Korea: 298 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in South Korea have electricity, versus 77% in Kenya

Kenya: 77% (2024) · South Korea: 100% (2024)

81% of people in South Korea live in cities, versus 32% in Kenya

Kenya: 32% (2025) · South Korea: 81% (2025)

South Korea has 173 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Kenya 126

Kenya: 126 (2024) · South Korea: 173 (2024)

South Korea’s railway network is 13% longer than Kenya’s

Kenya: 3,819 km (2018) · South Korea: 4,309 km (2021)

Airlines from South Korea fly 17 times as many passengers per resident as those from Kenya

Kenya: 0.09 (2023) · South Korea: 1.48 (2023)

Forest covers 64% of South Korea, but only 6.6% of Kenya

Kenya: 6.6% (2024) · South Korea: 64.4% (2024)

The average person in South Korea emits 30 times as much CO₂ as someone in Kenya

Kenya: 0.4 t (2024) · South Korea: 11.3 t (2024)

90% of Kenya’s electricity is renewable, versus 10% in South Korea

Kenya: 90% (2025) · South Korea: 10.4% (2025)

The air in Kenya carries 5% more fine dust than in South Korea

Kenya: 22 µg/m³ (2024) · South Korea: 21 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 10 times as likely to be murdered in Kenya as in South Korea

Kenya: 4.9 per 100k (2022) · South Korea: 0.5 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Kenya are 6.4 times as deadly as in South Korea

Kenya: 55.3 per 100k (2023) · South Korea: 8.7 per 100k (2023)

Kenya is on average 12.5 °C warmer than South Korea

Kenya: 25.7°C (2016–2025 avg) · South Korea: 13.2°C (2016–2025 avg)

South Korea gets 82% more rain than Kenya

Kenya: 696 mm (2016–2025 avg) · South Korea: 1,265 mm (2016–2025 avg)