The Philippines’ coastline is 44% longer than Norway’s

Norway: 25,148 km (2026 edition) · Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition)

The Philippines’ highest peak towers 485 m above Norway’s

Norway: 2,469 m (2026 edition) · Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 43% of the Philippines, versus 2.7% of Norway

Norway: 2.7% (2024) · Philippines: 42.7% (2024)

The Philippines has 21 times as many people as Norway

Norway: 5.61 million (2025) · Philippines: 117 million (2025)

The Philippines is 25 times as densely populated as Norway

Norway: 15 per km² (2025) · Philippines: 392 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Norway is 14 years older than in the Philippines

Norway: 39.5 years (2023) · Philippines: 25.3 years (2023)

Women in the Philippines have 0.4 more children on average than in Norway

Norway: 1.45 children per woman (2024) · Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024)

19% of people in Norway are 65 or older, versus 5.7% in the Philippines

Norway: 19.1% (2025) · Philippines: 5.7% (2025)

Norway hosts 2,501 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Norway: 22.1 per 1,000 (2025) · Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025)

Norway has produced 23.2 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, the Philippines 0.1

Norway: 23.2 (2026) · Philippines: 0.1 (2026)

Norway has 3 official languages, the Philippines 2

Norway: 3 (2026) · Philippines: 2 (2026)

Norway’s economy is 9% larger than the Philippines’

Norway: $531 billion (2025) · Philippines: $487 billion (2025)

Norway produces 8.3 times as much per person as the Philippines

Norway: Int$104,044 (2025) · Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the Philippines than in Norway (Gini 12.8 points higher)

Norway: 26.5 (2023) · Philippines: 39.3 (2023)

5.3% of people in the Philippines live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.2% in Norway

Norway: 0.2% (2023) · Philippines: 5.3% (2023)

Unemployment is 4.6% in Norway, versus 2.2% in the Philippines

Norway: 4.6% (2025) · Philippines: 2.2% (2025)

Norway spends 3.3% of its GDP on the military, the Philippines 1.3%

Norway: 3.3% (2025) · Philippines: 1.3% (2025)

Norway’s central government collects 25% of GDP in tax, the Philippines’ 14%

Norway: 24.5% (2024) · Philippines: 14.4% (2024)

Norway’s price level (US = 100) is 2.7× the Philippines’

Norway: 91% (2025) · Philippines: 33% (2025)

Norway spends 43 times as much on health per person as the Philippines

Norway: $8,296 (2023) · Philippines: $194 (2023)

A baby in the Philippines is 11 times as likely to die before turning one as in Norway

Norway: 2 per 1,000 (2024) · Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Norway has 6.3 times as many doctors per person as the Philippines

Norway: 5 per 1,000 (2023) · Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021)

Norway has 3.4 times as many hospital beds per person as the Philippines

Norway: 3.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Philippines: 1 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in Norway is 3.7 times that in the Philippines

Norway: 11.6 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023)

21% of adults in Norway are obese, versus 9.7% in the Philippines

Norway: 20.7% (2024) · Philippines: 9.7% (2024)

20% of adults in the Philippines smoke, versus 13% in Norway

Norway: 12.9% (2024) · Philippines: 19.9% (2024)

People in Norway rate their lives 1.04 points higher than in the Philippines

Norway: 7.24 (2025) · Philippines: 6.21 (2025)

Adults in Norway drink 14% more alcohol than in the Philippines

Norway: 7 litres (2023) · Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023)

Norway has 2.1 times as much meat per person as the Philippines

Norway: 70.4 kg (2023) · Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023)

Norway has 493 kcal more food per person per day than the Philippines

Norway: 3,476 kcal (2023) · Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023)

Workers in the Philippines put in 684 more hours a year than in Norway

Norway: 1,412 hours (2023) · Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023)

Adults in Norway went to school 3.1 years longer than in the Philippines

Norway: 13.1 years (2023) · Philippines: 10 years (2023)

Norway welcomed 39 times as many tourists per resident as the Philippines (2019)

Norway: 0.91 (2022) · Philippines: 0.02 (2022)

Norway has 2 more World Heritage sites than the Philippines (8 against 6)

Norway: 8 (2026) · Philippines: 6 (2026)

Norway has won 616 Olympic medals, the Philippines 18

Norway: 616 (2026 edition) · Philippines: 18 (2026 edition)

99% of people in Norway are online, versus 67% in the Philippines

Norway: 99% (2024) · Philippines: 67% (2024)

Home internet in Norway is 38% faster than in the Philippines

Norway: 228 Mbps (2026) · Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Norway have electricity, versus 95% in the Philippines

Norway: 100% (2024) · Philippines: 94.8% (2024)

84% of people in Norway live in cities, versus 56% in the Philippines

Norway: 84% (2025) · Philippines: 56% (2025)

The Philippines has 115 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Norway 109

Norway: 109 (2024) · Philippines: 115 (2024)

Norway’s railway network is 7.6 times as long as the Philippines’

Norway: 3,885 km (2021) · Philippines: 509 km (2016)

Norway: no data · Philippines: 0.36 (2023)

Forest covers 33% of Norway, but only 25% of the Philippines

Norway: 33.2% (2024) · Philippines: 24.8% (2024)

The average person in Norway emits 4.4 times as much CO₂ as someone in the Philippines

Norway: 6.7 t (2024) · Philippines: 1.5 t (2024)

99% of Norway’s electricity is renewable, versus 23% in the Philippines

Norway: 99% (2025) · Philippines: 23.3% (2025)

The air in the Philippines carries 3.4 times as much fine dust as in Norway

Norway: 6.7 µg/m³ (2024) · Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 6 times as likely to be murdered in the Philippines as in Norway

Norway: 0.7 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 4.3 per 100k (2023)

Roads in the Philippines are 4.8 times as deadly as in Norway

Norway: 2.9 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 24.8 °C warmer than Norway

Norway: 1.6°C (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Philippines gets 2.4 times as much rain as Norway

Norway: 1,259 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg)