Sudan’s coastline is 89% longer than the Netherlands’

Netherlands: 451 km (2026 edition) · Sudan: 853 km (2026 edition)

Sudan’s highest peak towers 2,180 m above the Netherlands’

Netherlands: 862 m (2026 edition) · Sudan: 3,042 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 60% of Sudan, versus 53% of the Netherlands

Netherlands: 53.4% (2024) · Sudan: 60.3% (2024)

Sudan has 2.9 times as many people as the Netherlands

Netherlands: 18.1 million (2025) · Sudan: 51.7 million (2025)

The Netherlands is 19 times as densely populated as Sudan

Netherlands: 537 per km² (2025) · Sudan: 28 per km² (2025)

The typical person in the Netherlands is 23 years older than in Sudan

Netherlands: 41.4 years (2023) · Sudan: 18.3 years (2023)

Women in Sudan have 2.8 more children on average than in the Netherlands

Netherlands: 1.43 children per woman (2024) · Sudan: 4.26 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in the Netherlands are 65 or older, versus 3.4% in Sudan

Netherlands: 20.9% (2025) · Sudan: 3.4% (2025)

The Netherlands and Sudan are nearly identical here

Netherlands: 15.7 per 1,000 (2025) · Sudan: 15.7 per 1,000 (2025)

The Netherlands has produced 11.1 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Sudan none

Netherlands: 11.1 (2026) · Sudan: 0 (2026)

Sudan has 2 official languages, the Netherlands 1

Netherlands: 1 (2026) · Sudan: 2 (2026)

The Netherlands’ economy is 22 times the size of Sudan’s

Netherlands: $1.33 trillion (2025) · Sudan: $60.2 billion (2025)

The Netherlands produces 40 times as much per person as Sudan

Netherlands: Int$87,320 (2025) · Sudan: Int$2,192 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Sudan than in the Netherlands (Gini 8.5 points higher)

Netherlands: 25.7 (2021) · Sudan: 34.2 (2014)

Netherlands: 0.1% (2021) · Sudan: no data

Unemployment is 7.5% in Sudan, versus 3.9% in the Netherlands

Netherlands: 3.9% (2025) · Sudan: 7.5% (2022)

The Netherlands spends 2.2% of its GDP on the military, Sudan 0.9%

Netherlands: 2.2% (2025) · Sudan: 0.9% (2021)

The Netherlands’ central government collects 25% of GDP in tax, Sudan’s 7.4%

Netherlands: 25.3% (2024) · Sudan: 7.4% (2016)

The Netherlands’ price level (US = 100) is 1.6× Sudan’s

Netherlands: 84% (2025) · Sudan: 53% (2025)

The Netherlands spends 325 times as much on health per person as Sudan

Netherlands: $6,845 (2024) · Sudan: $21 (2023)

A baby in Sudan is 13 times as likely to die before turning one as in the Netherlands

Netherlands: 3.4 per 1,000 (2024) · Sudan: 42.9 per 1,000 (2024)

The Netherlands has 16 times as many doctors per person as Sudan

Netherlands: 3.9 per 1,000 (2022) · Sudan: 0.3 per 1,000 (2017)

The Netherlands has 3.7 times as many hospital beds per person as Sudan

Netherlands: 2.4 per 1,000 (2022) · Sudan: 0.7 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in the Netherlands is 2.6 times that in Sudan

Netherlands: 9.6 per 100k (2023) · Sudan: 3.7 per 100k (2023)

17% of adults in the Netherlands are obese, versus 16% in Sudan

Netherlands: 16.9% (2024) · Sudan: 16.1% (2024)

Netherlands: 20.5% (2024) · Sudan: no data

People in the Netherlands rate their lives 3.08 points higher than in Sudan

Netherlands: 7.22 (2025) · Sudan: 4.14 (2017)

Adults in the Netherlands drink 6.1 times as much alcohol as in Sudan

Netherlands: 8.6 litres (2023) · Sudan: 1.4 litres (2023)

The Netherlands has 3.9 times as much meat per person as Sudan

Netherlands: 71.6 kg (2023) · Sudan: 18.4 kg (2022)

The Netherlands has 954 kcal more food per person per day than Sudan

Netherlands: 3,467 kcal (2023) · Sudan: 2,513 kcal (2022)

Workers in Sudan put in 1,219 more hours a year than in the Netherlands

Netherlands: 1,439 hours (2023) · Sudan: 2,658 hours (2023)

Adults in the Netherlands went to school 8.7 years longer than in Sudan

Netherlands: 12.7 years (2023) · Sudan: 4 years (2023)

The Netherlands welcomed 48 times as many tourists per resident as Sudan (2019)

Netherlands: 0.91 (2022) · Sudan: 0.02 (2018)

The Netherlands has 10 more World Heritage sites than Sudan (13 against 3)

Netherlands: 13 (2026) · Sudan: 3 (2026)

The Netherlands has won 524 Olympic medals, Sudan 1

Netherlands: 524 (2026 edition) · Sudan: 1 (2026 edition)

97% of people in the Netherlands are online, versus 19% in Sudan

Netherlands: 97% (2024) · Sudan: 19% (2017)

Home internet in the Netherlands is 4.1 times as fast as in Sudan

Netherlands: 324 Mbps (2026) · Sudan: 79 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in the Netherlands have electricity, versus 66% in Sudan

Netherlands: 100% (2024) · Sudan: 66% (2024)

96% of people in the Netherlands live in cities, versus 35% in Sudan

Netherlands: 96% (2025) · Sudan: 35% (2025)

The Netherlands has 129 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Sudan 70

Netherlands: 129 (2024) · Sudan: 70 (2022)

The Netherlands’ railway network is 11% longer than Sudan’s

Netherlands: 3,041 km (2021) · Sudan: 2,747 km (2020)

Airlines from the Netherlands fly 130 times as many passengers per resident as those from Sudan

Netherlands: 2.29 (2023) · Sudan: 0.02 (2023)

Forest covers 12% of Sudan, but only 11% of the Netherlands

Netherlands: 11% (2024) · Sudan: 11.9% (2024)

The average person in the Netherlands emits 18 times as much CO₂ as someone in Sudan

Netherlands: 6.3 t (2024) · Sudan: 0.4 t (2024)

80% of Sudan’s electricity is renewable, versus 51% in the Netherlands

Netherlands: 51.2% (2025) · Sudan: 79.7% (2024)

The air in Sudan carries 3 times as much fine dust as in the Netherlands

Netherlands: 9.6 µg/m³ (2024) · Sudan: 28.8 µg/m³ (2024)

Netherlands: 0.7 per 100k (2023) · Sudan: no data

Roads in Sudan are 5.5 times as deadly as in the Netherlands

Netherlands: 5.1 per 100k (2023) · Sudan: 28.2 per 100k (2023)

Sudan is on average 16.5 °C warmer than the Netherlands

Netherlands: 11.2°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sudan: 27.7°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Netherlands gets 5.2 times as much rain as Sudan

Netherlands: 887 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sudan: 171 mm (2016–2025 avg)