Nigeria’s coastline is 94% longer than Poland’s

Nigeria: 853 km (2026 edition) · Poland: 440 km (2026 edition)

Poland’s highest peak towers 80 m above Nigeria’s

Nigeria: 2,419 m (2026 edition) · Poland: 2,499 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 77% of Nigeria, versus 46% of Poland

Nigeria: 77.1% (2024) · Poland: 46.2% (2024)

Nigeria has 6.5 times as many people as Poland

Nigeria: 238 million (2025) · Poland: 36.4 million (2025)

Nigeria is 2.2 times as densely populated as Poland

Nigeria: 261 per km² (2025) · Poland: 119 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Poland is 24 years older than in Nigeria

Nigeria: 17.8 years (2023) · Poland: 41.3 years (2023)

Women in Nigeria have 3.2 more children on average than in Poland

Nigeria: 4.38 children per woman (2024) · Poland: 1.14 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Poland are 65 or older, versus 3.1% in Nigeria

Nigeria: 3.1% (2025) · Poland: 20.8% (2025)

Poland hosts 52 times as many refugees per resident as Nigeria

Nigeria: 0.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Poland: 27.2 per 1,000 (2025)

Poland has produced 7.7 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Nigeria 0.0

Nigeria: 0.042 (2026) · Poland: 7.7 (2026)

Nigeria and Poland are practically level

Nigeria: 1 (2026) · Poland: 1 (2026)

Poland’s economy is 3.6 times the size of Nigeria’s

Nigeria: $291 billion (2025) · Poland: $1.04 trillion (2025)

Poland produces 5.7 times as much per person as Nigeria

Nigeria: Int$9,532 (2025) · Poland: Int$54,262 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Nigeria than in Poland (Gini 5.4 points higher)

Nigeria: 33.9 (2022) · Poland: 28.5 (2023)

42% of people in Nigeria live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.2% in Poland

Nigeria: 41.8% (2022) · Poland: 0.2% (2023)

Nigeria and Poland are practically level

Nigeria: 3.1% (2025) · Poland: 3% (2025)

Poland spends 4.5% of its GDP on the military, Nigeria 0.9%

Nigeria: 0.9% (2025) · Poland: 4.5% (2025)

Nigeria: no data · Poland: 17.4% (2024)

Poland’s price level (US = 100) is 4.1× Nigeria’s

Nigeria: 13% (2025) · Poland: 52% (2025)

Poland spends 30 times as much on health per person as Nigeria

Nigeria: $67 (2023) · Poland: $2,014 (2024)

A baby in Nigeria is 19 times as likely to die before turning one as in Poland

Nigeria: 69.8 per 1,000 (2024) · Poland: 3.6 per 1,000 (2024)

Poland has 11 times as many doctors per person as Nigeria

Nigeria: 0.4 per 1,000 (2023) · Poland: 4 per 1,000 (2023)

Nigeria: no data · Poland: 6 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Poland is 2.1 times that in Nigeria

Nigeria: 6.5 per 100k (2023) · Poland: 13.4 per 100k (2023)

26% of adults in Poland are obese, versus 12% in Nigeria

Nigeria: 12.1% (2024) · Poland: 25.9% (2024)

22% of adults in Poland smoke, versus 3.1% in Nigeria

Nigeria: 3.1% (2024) · Poland: 21.7% (2024)

People in Poland rate their lives 1.98 points higher than in Nigeria

Nigeria: 4.79 (2025) · Poland: 6.77 (2025)

Adults in Poland drink 5.7 times as much alcohol as in Nigeria

Nigeria: 2 litres (2023) · Poland: 11.5 litres (2023)

Poland has 12 times as much meat per person as Nigeria

Nigeria: 7.1 kg (2023) · Poland: 83.3 kg (2023)

Poland has 1,260 kcal more food per person per day than Nigeria

Nigeria: 2,470 kcal (2023) · Poland: 3,730 kcal (2023)

Workers in Nigeria put in 255 more hours a year than in Poland

Nigeria: 2,062 hours (2023) · Poland: 1,807 hours (2023)

Adults in Poland went to school 5.6 years longer than in Nigeria

Nigeria: 7.6 years (2023) · Poland: 13.2 years (2023)

Poland welcomed 233 times as many tourists per resident as Nigeria (2019)

Nigeria: 0.0023 (2024) · Poland: 0.54 (2024)

Poland has 16 more World Heritage sites than Nigeria (18 against 2)

Nigeria: 2 (2026) · Poland: 18 (2026)

Poland has won 335 Olympic medals, Nigeria 27

Nigeria: 27 (2026 edition) · Poland: 335 (2026 edition)

89% of people in Poland are online, versus 41% in Nigeria

Nigeria: 41% (2024) · Poland: 89% (2024)

Home internet in Poland is 6.6 times as fast as in Nigeria

Nigeria: 44 Mbps (2026) · Poland: 288 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Poland have electricity, versus 63% in Nigeria

Nigeria: 62.5% (2024) · Poland: 100% (2024)

64% of people in Nigeria live in cities, versus 60% in Poland

Nigeria: 64% (2025) · Poland: 60% (2025)

Poland has 138 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Nigeria 71

Nigeria: 71 (2024) · Poland: 138 (2024)

Poland’s railway network is 5.3 times as long as Nigeria’s

Nigeria: 3,528 km (2015) · Poland: 18,620 km (2021)

Airlines from Poland fly 11 times as many passengers per resident as those from Nigeria

Nigeria: 0.02 (2023) · Poland: 0.24 (2023)

Forest covers 31% of Poland, but only 19% of Nigeria

Nigeria: 18.9% (2024) · Poland: 31% (2024)

The average person in Poland emits 12 times as much CO₂ as someone in Nigeria

Nigeria: 0.6 t (2024) · Poland: 7.1 t (2024)

Poland and Nigeria are practically level

Nigeria: 31.3% (2025) · Poland: 31.5% (2025)

The air in Nigeria carries 3.2 times as much fine dust as in Poland

Nigeria: 50 µg/m³ (2024) · Poland: 15.6 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 20 times as likely to be murdered in Nigeria as in Poland

Nigeria: 15.7 per 100k (2023) · Poland: 0.8 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Nigeria are 2.1 times as deadly as in Poland

Nigeria: 24.7 per 100k (2023) · Poland: 11.5 per 100k (2023)

Nigeria is on average 17.7 °C warmer than Poland

Nigeria: 27.4°C (2016–2025 avg) · Poland: 9.7°C (2016–2025 avg)

Nigeria gets 37% more rain than Poland

Nigeria: 1,044 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Poland: 763 mm (2016–2025 avg)