Sweden’s coastline is 3.8 times as long as Nigeria’s

Nigeria: 853 km (2026 edition) · Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition)

Nigeria’s highest peak towers 319 m above Sweden’s

Nigeria: 2,419 m (2026 edition) · Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 77% of Nigeria, versus 7.3% of Sweden

Nigeria: 77.1% (2024) · Sweden: 7.3% (2024)

Nigeria has 22 times as many people as Sweden

Nigeria: 238 million (2025) · Sweden: 10.6 million (2025)

Nigeria is 10 times as densely populated as Sweden

Nigeria: 261 per km² (2025) · Sweden: 26 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sweden is 22 years older than in Nigeria

Nigeria: 17.8 years (2023) · Sweden: 39.9 years (2023)

Women in Nigeria have 3.0 more children on average than in Sweden

Nigeria: 4.38 children per woman (2024) · Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024)

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

Nigeria: 3.1% (2025) · Sweden: 20.9% (2025)

Sweden hosts 26 times as many refugees per resident as Nigeria

Nigeria: 0.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Sweden has produced 28.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Nigeria 0.0

Nigeria: 0.042 (2026) · Sweden: 28.3 (2026)

Nigeria and Sweden are practically level

Nigeria: 1 (2026) · Sweden: 1 (2026)

Sweden’s economy is 2.3 times the size of Nigeria’s

Nigeria: $291 billion (2025) · Sweden: $669 billion (2025)

Sweden produces 7.6 times as much per person as Nigeria

Nigeria: Int$9,532 (2025) · Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Nigeria than in Sweden (Gini 4.6 points higher)

Nigeria: 33.9 (2022) · Sweden: 29.3 (2023)

42% of people in Nigeria live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.8% in Sweden

Nigeria: 41.8% (2022) · Sweden: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.7% in Sweden, versus 3.1% in Nigeria

Nigeria: 3.1% (2025) · Sweden: 8.7% (2025)

Sweden spends 2.5% of its GDP on the military, Nigeria 0.9%

Nigeria: 0.9% (2025) · Sweden: 2.5% (2025)

Nigeria: no data · Sweden: 27.2% (2024)

Sweden’s price level (US = 100) is 6.8× Nigeria’s

Nigeria: 13% (2025) · Sweden: 87% (2025)

Sweden spends 97 times as much on health per person as Nigeria

Nigeria: $67 (2023) · Sweden: $6,485 (2024)

A baby in Nigeria is 35 times as likely to die before turning one as in Sweden

Nigeria: 69.8 per 1,000 (2024) · Sweden: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Sweden has 12 times as many doctors per person as Nigeria

Nigeria: 0.4 per 1,000 (2023) · Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021)

Nigeria: no data · Sweden: 1.9 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Sweden is 2 times that in Nigeria

Nigeria: 6.5 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023)

19% of adults in Sweden are obese, versus 12% in Nigeria

Nigeria: 12.1% (2024) · Sweden: 18.7% (2024)

20% of adults in Sweden smoke, versus 3.1% in Nigeria

Nigeria: 3.1% (2024) · Sweden: 20.3% (2024)

People in Sweden rate their lives 2.47 points higher than in Nigeria

Nigeria: 4.79 (2025) · Sweden: 7.26 (2025)

Adults in Sweden drink 4.3 times as much alcohol as in Nigeria

Nigeria: 2 litres (2023) · Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023)

Sweden has 9.6 times as much meat per person as Nigeria

Nigeria: 7.1 kg (2023) · Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023)

Sweden has 897 kcal more food per person per day than Nigeria

Nigeria: 2,470 kcal (2023) · Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023)

Workers in Nigeria put in 630 more hours a year than in Sweden

Nigeria: 2,062 hours (2023) · Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023)

Adults in Sweden went to school 5.2 years longer than in Nigeria

Nigeria: 7.6 years (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 years (2023)

Sweden welcomed 273 times as many tourists per resident as Nigeria (2019)

Nigeria: 0.0023 (2024) · Sweden: 0.63 (2022)

Sweden has 13 more World Heritage sites than Nigeria (15 against 2)

Nigeria: 2 (2026) · Sweden: 15 (2026)

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, Nigeria 27

Nigeria: 27 (2026 edition) · Sweden: 709 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Sweden are online, versus 41% in Nigeria

Nigeria: 41% (2024) · Sweden: 96% (2025)

Home internet in Sweden is 5.7 times as fast as in Nigeria

Nigeria: 44 Mbps (2026) · Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026)

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

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

89% of people in Sweden live in cities, versus 64% in Nigeria

Nigeria: 64% (2025) · Sweden: 89% (2025)

Sweden has 141 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Nigeria 71

Nigeria: 71 (2024) · Sweden: 141 (2024)

Sweden’s railway network is 2.8 times as long as Nigeria’s

Nigeria: 3,528 km (2015) · Sweden: 9,714 km (2021)

Airlines from Sweden fly 83 times as many passengers per resident as those from Nigeria

Nigeria: 0.02 (2023) · Sweden: 1.85 (2023)

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 19% of Nigeria

Nigeria: 18.9% (2024) · Sweden: 68.6% (2024)

The average person in Sweden emits 6.2 times as much CO₂ as someone in Nigeria

Nigeria: 0.6 t (2024) · Sweden: 3.6 t (2024)

71% of Sweden’s electricity is renewable, versus 31% in Nigeria

Nigeria: 31.3% (2025) · Sweden: 71.2% (2025)

The air in Nigeria carries 8.8 times as much fine dust as in Sweden

Nigeria: 50 µg/m³ (2024) · Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 14 times as likely to be murdered in Nigeria as in Sweden

Nigeria: 15.7 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 1.1 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Nigeria are 7.3 times as deadly as in Sweden

Nigeria: 24.7 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023)

Nigeria is on average 23.1 °C warmer than Sweden

Nigeria: 27.4°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 4.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Nigeria gets 30% more rain than Sweden

Nigeria: 1,044 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 801 mm (2016–2025 avg)