Spain’s coastline is 9.3 times as long as Kenya’s

Kenya: 536 km (2026 edition) · Spain: 4,964 km (2026 edition)

Kenya’s highest peak towers 1,481 m above Spain’s

Kenya: 5,199 m (2026 edition) · Spain: 3,718 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 50% of Kenya, versus 49% of Spain

Kenya: 50% (2024) · Spain: 49.3% (2024)

Kenya has 17% more people than Spain

Kenya: 57.5 million (2025) · Spain: 49.4 million (2025)

Kenya and Spain are nearly identical here

Kenya: 99 per km² (2025) · Spain: 99 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Spain is 25 years older than in Kenya

Kenya: 19.5 years (2023) · Spain: 44.9 years (2023)

Women in Kenya have 2.1 more children on average than in Spain

Kenya: 3.17 children per woman (2024) · Spain: 1.1 children per woman (2024)

22% of people in Spain are 65 or older, versus 3.0% in Kenya

Kenya: 3% (2025) · Spain: 21.6% (2025)

Kenya hosts 4% more refugees per resident than Spain

Kenya: 10.7 per 1,000 (2025) · Spain: 10.4 per 1,000 (2025)

Spain has produced 1.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Kenya 0.2

Kenya: 0.2 (2026) · Spain: 1.4 (2026)

Kenya has 2 official languages, Spain 1

Kenya: 2 (2026) · Spain: 1 (2026)

Spain’s economy is 14 times the size of Kenya’s

Kenya: $136 billion (2025) · Spain: $1.91 trillion (2025)

Spain produces 8.5 times as much per person as Kenya

Kenya: Int$7,016 (2025) · Spain: Int$59,868 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Kenya than in Spain (Gini 5.1 points higher)

Kenya: 38.5 (2022) · Spain: 33.4 (2023)

46% of people in Kenya live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.8% in Spain

Kenya: 45.5% (2022) · Spain: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 10% in Spain, versus 5.4% in Kenya

Kenya: 5.4% (2025) · Spain: 10.4% (2025)

Spain spends 2.1% of its GDP on the military, Kenya 1.1%

Kenya: 1.1% (2025) · Spain: 2.1% (2025)

Spain’s central government collects 15% of GDP in tax, Kenya’s 14%

Kenya: 14.1% (2023) · Spain: 14.9% (2024)

Spain’s price level (US = 100) is 1.9× Kenya’s

Kenya: 34% (2025) · Spain: 65% (2025)

Spain spends 37 times as much on health per person as Kenya

Kenya: $85 (2023) · Spain: $3,107 (2023)

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

Kenya: 34.2 per 1,000 (2024) · Spain: 2.6 per 1,000 (2024)

Spain has 15 times as many doctors per person as Kenya

Kenya: 0.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Spain: 4.3 per 1,000 (2022)

Spain has 2.2 times as many hospital beds per person as Kenya

Kenya: 1.3 per 1,000 (2019) · Spain: 2.9 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Kenya is 2.7 times that in Spain

Kenya: 19.1 per 100k (2023) · Spain: 7.1 per 100k (2023)

19% of adults in Spain are obese, versus 10% in Kenya

Kenya: 10.4% (2024) · Spain: 18.9% (2024)

28% of adults in Spain smoke, versus 9.6% in Kenya

Kenya: 9.6% (2024) · Spain: 27.6% (2024)

People in Spain rate their lives 1.87 points higher than in Kenya

Kenya: 4.67 (2025) · Spain: 6.54 (2025)

Adults in Spain drink 5.4 times as much alcohol as in Kenya

Kenya: 2.2 litres (2023) · Spain: 12.1 litres (2023)

Spain has 9.9 times as much meat per person as Kenya

Kenya: 10.2 kg (2023) · Spain: 100.8 kg (2023)

Spain has 1,231 kcal more food per person per day than Kenya

Kenya: 2,146 kcal (2023) · Spain: 3,377 kcal (2023)

Workers in Kenya put in 397 more hours a year than in Spain

Kenya: 2,035 hours (2023) · Spain: 1,638 hours (2023)

Adults in Spain went to school 2.1 years longer than in Kenya

Kenya: 8.6 years (2023) · Spain: 10.8 years (2023)

Spain welcomed 69 times as many tourists per resident as Kenya (2019)

Kenya: 0.03 (2017) · Spain: 1.92 (2024)

Spain has 42 more World Heritage sites than Kenya (50 against 8)

Kenya: 8 (2026) · Spain: 50 (2026)

Spain has won 195 Olympic medals, Kenya 124

Kenya: 124 (2026 edition) · Spain: 195 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Spain are online, versus 35% in Kenya

Kenya: 35% (2024) · Spain: 96% (2024)

Home internet in Spain is 7.9 times as fast as in Kenya

Kenya: 41 Mbps (2026) · Spain: 324 Mbps (2026)

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

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

81% of people in Spain live in cities, versus 32% in Kenya

Kenya: 32% (2025) · Spain: 81% (2025)

Spain has 130 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Kenya 126

Kenya: 126 (2024) · Spain: 130 (2024)

Spain’s railway network is 4.2 times as long as Kenya’s

Kenya: 3,819 km (2018) · Spain: 15,963 km (2021)

Airlines from Spain fly 21 times as many passengers per resident as those from Kenya

Kenya: 0.09 (2023) · Spain: 1.91 (2023)

Forest covers 38% of Spain, but only 6.6% of Kenya

Kenya: 6.6% (2024) · Spain: 38.2% (2024)

The average person in Spain emits 12 times as much CO₂ as someone in Kenya

Kenya: 0.4 t (2024) · Spain: 4.6 t (2024)

90% of Kenya’s electricity is renewable, versus 56% in Spain

Kenya: 90% (2025) · Spain: 55.9% (2025)

The air in Kenya carries 2.2 times as much fine dust as in Spain

Kenya: 22 µg/m³ (2024) · Spain: 10 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 7.1 times as likely to be murdered in Kenya as in Spain

Kenya: 4.9 per 100k (2022) · Spain: 0.7 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Kenya are 8.9 times as deadly as in Spain

Kenya: 55.3 per 100k (2023) · Spain: 6.2 per 100k (2023)

Kenya is on average 10.8 °C warmer than Spain

Kenya: 25.7°C (2016–2025 avg) · Spain: 14.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Kenya gets 5% more rain than Spain

Kenya: 696 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Spain: 665 mm (2016–2025 avg)