The Philippines’ coastline is 19 times as long as Myanmar’s

Myanmar: 1,930 km (2026 edition) · Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition)

Myanmar’s highest peak towers 2,916 m above the Philippines’

Myanmar: 5,870 m (2026 edition) · Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 43% of the Philippines, versus 20% of Myanmar

Myanmar: 19.9% (2024) · Philippines: 42.7% (2024)

The Philippines has 2.1 times as many people as Myanmar

Myanmar: 54.9 million (2025) · Philippines: 117 million (2025)

The Philippines is 4.7 times as densely populated as Myanmar

Myanmar: 84 per km² (2025) · Philippines: 392 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Myanmar is 4.2 years older than in the Philippines

Myanmar: 29.5 years (2023) · Philippines: 25.3 years (2023)

Women in Myanmar have 0.2 more children on average than in the Philippines

Myanmar: 2.1 children per woman (2024) · Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024)

7.5% of people in Myanmar are 65 or older, versus 5.7% in the Philippines

Myanmar: 7.5% (2025) · Philippines: 5.7% (2025)

Myanmar: 0 per 1,000 (2025) · Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025)

Myanmar has produced 0.2 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, the Philippines 0.1

Myanmar: 0.2 (2026) · Philippines: 0.1 (2026)

The Philippines has 2 official languages, Myanmar 1

Myanmar: 1 (2026) · Philippines: 2 (2026)

The Philippines’ economy is 6 times the size of Myanmar’s

Myanmar: $81.7 billion (2025) · Philippines: $487 billion (2025)

The Philippines produces 2.1 times as much per person as Myanmar

Myanmar: Int$6,012 (2025) · Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the Philippines than in Myanmar (Gini 8.6 points higher)

Myanmar: 30.7 (2017) · Philippines: 39.3 (2023)

10% of people in Myanmar live on less than $3 a day, versus 5.3% in the Philippines

Myanmar: 10.3% (2017) · Philippines: 5.3% (2023)

Unemployment is 3.0% in Myanmar, versus 2.2% in the Philippines

Myanmar: 3% (2025) · Philippines: 2.2% (2025)

Myanmar spends 6.6% of its GDP on the military, the Philippines 1.3%

Myanmar: 6.6% (2024) · Philippines: 1.3% (2025)

The Philippines’ central government collects 14% of GDP in tax, Myanmar’s 6.0%

Myanmar: 6% (2019) · Philippines: 14.4% (2024)

The Philippines’ price level (US = 100) is 1.3× Myanmar’s

Myanmar: 25% (2025) · Philippines: 33% (2025)

The Philippines spends 3.5 times as much on health per person as Myanmar

Myanmar: $56 (2023) · Philippines: $194 (2023)

A baby in Myanmar is 51% more likely to die before turning one than in the Philippines

Myanmar: 32.8 per 1,000 (2024) · Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024)

The Philippines has 5% more doctors per person than Myanmar

Myanmar: 0.8 per 1,000 (2019) · Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021)

Myanmar has 10% more hospital beds per person than the Philippines

Myanmar: 1.1 per 1,000 (2020) · Philippines: 1 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in Myanmar is 32% higher than in the Philippines

Myanmar: 4.1 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023)

9.7% of adults in the Philippines are obese, versus 8.3% in Myanmar

Myanmar: 8.3% (2024) · Philippines: 9.7% (2024)

43% of adults in Myanmar smoke, versus 20% in the Philippines

Myanmar: 43.4% (2024) · Philippines: 19.9% (2024)

People in the Philippines rate their lives 1.92 points higher than in Myanmar

Myanmar: 4.29 (2025) · Philippines: 6.21 (2025)

Adults in the Philippines drink 3.2 times as much alcohol as in Myanmar

Myanmar: 1.9 litres (2023) · Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023)

The Philippines has 61% more meat per person than Myanmar

Myanmar: 20.9 kg (2023) · Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023)

The Philippines has 174 kcal more food per person per day than Myanmar

Myanmar: 2,809 kcal (2023) · Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023)

Workers in Myanmar put in 101 more hours a year than in the Philippines

Myanmar: 2,197 hours (2023) · Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023)

Adults in the Philippines went to school 3.6 years longer than in Myanmar

Myanmar: 6.4 years (2023) · Philippines: 10 years (2023)

The Philippines welcomed 57% more tourists per resident than Myanmar (2019)

Myanmar: 0.01 (2024) · Philippines: 0.02 (2022)

The Philippines has 4 more World Heritage sites than Myanmar (6 against 2)

Myanmar: 2 (2026) · Philippines: 6 (2026)

The Philippines has won 18 Olympic medals, Myanmar none

Myanmar: 0 (2026 edition) · Philippines: 18 (2026 edition)

67% of people in the Philippines are online, versus 45% in Myanmar

Myanmar: 45% (2020) · Philippines: 67% (2024)

Home internet in the Philippines is 3.7 times as fast as in Myanmar

Myanmar: 45 Mbps (2026) · Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026)

95% of people in the Philippines have electricity, versus 80% in Myanmar

Myanmar: 80.4% (2024) · Philippines: 94.8% (2024)

56% of people in the Philippines live in cities, versus 31% in Myanmar

Myanmar: 31% (2025) · Philippines: 56% (2025)

The Philippines has 115 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Myanmar 114

Myanmar: 114 (2024) · Philippines: 115 (2024)

Myanmar: no data · Philippines: 509 km (2016)

Airlines from the Philippines fly 5.5 times as many passengers per resident as those from Myanmar

Myanmar: 0.06 (2023) · Philippines: 0.36 (2023)

Forest covers 42% of Myanmar, but only 25% of the Philippines

Myanmar: 42% (2024) · Philippines: 24.8% (2024)

The average person in the Philippines emits 2.6 times as much CO₂ as someone in Myanmar

Myanmar: 0.6 t (2024) · Philippines: 1.5 t (2024)

48% of Myanmar’s electricity is renewable, versus 23% in the Philippines

Myanmar: 47.9% (2024) · Philippines: 23.3% (2025)

The air in Myanmar carries 35% more fine dust than in the Philippines

Myanmar: 31.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 69% more likely to be murdered in the Philippines than in Myanmar

Myanmar: 2.6 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 4.3 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Myanmar are 59% deadlier than in the Philippines

Myanmar: 21.9 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 2.3 °C warmer than Myanmar

Myanmar: 24.1°C (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Philippines gets 34% more rain than Myanmar

Myanmar: 2,233 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg)