Norway’s coastline is 19 times as long as Sri Lanka’s

Norway: 25,148 km (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 1,340 km (2026 edition)

Sri Lanka’s highest peak towers 55 m above Norway’s

Norway: 2,469 m (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2,524 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 49% of Sri Lanka, versus 2.7% of Norway

Norway: 2.7% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 48.8% (2024)

Sri Lanka has 3.9 times as many people as Norway

Norway: 5.61 million (2025) · Sri Lanka: 21.8 million (2025)

Sri Lanka is 23 times as densely populated as Norway

Norway: 15 per km² (2025) · Sri Lanka: 352 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Norway is 6.7 years older than in Sri Lanka

Norway: 39.5 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 32.8 years (2023)

Women in Sri Lanka have 0.5 more children on average than in Norway

Norway: 1.45 children per woman (2024) · Sri Lanka: 1.95 children per woman (2024)

19% of people in Norway are 65 or older, versus 12% in Sri Lanka

Norway: 19.1% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 12.5% (2025)

Norway hosts 2,257 times as many refugees per resident as Sri Lanka

Norway: 22.1 per 1,000 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 0.0098 per 1,000 (2025)

Norway has produced 23.2 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Sri Lanka none

Norway: 23.2 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 0 (2026)

Norway has 3 official languages, Sri Lanka 2

Norway: 3 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026)

Norway’s economy is 4.9 times the size of Sri Lanka’s

Norway: $531 billion (2025) · Sri Lanka: $109 billion (2025)

Norway produces 6.1 times as much per person as Sri Lanka

Norway: Int$104,044 (2025) · Sri Lanka: Int$17,065 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Sri Lanka than in Norway (Gini 11.2 points higher)

Norway: 26.5 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 37.7 (2019)

2.7% of people in Sri Lanka live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.2% in Norway

Norway: 0.2% (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2.7% (2019)

Unemployment is 4.6% in Norway, versus 4.0% in Sri Lanka

Norway: 4.6% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4% (2025)

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

Norway: 3.3% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 1.3% (2025)

Norway’s central government collects 25% of GDP in tax, Sri Lanka’s 9.9%

Norway: 24.5% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 9.9% (2023)

Norway’s price level (US = 100) is 3.1× Sri Lanka’s

Norway: 91% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 29% (2025)

Norway spends 62 times as much on health per person as Sri Lanka

Norway: $8,296 (2023) · Sri Lanka: $134 (2023)

A baby in Sri Lanka is 2.6 times as likely to die before turning one as in Norway

Norway: 2 per 1,000 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 5.2 per 1,000 (2024)

Norway has 4.4 times as many doctors per person as Sri Lanka

Norway: 5 per 1,000 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 1.1 per 1,000 (2023)

Sri Lanka has 19% more hospital beds per person than Norway

Norway: 3.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 3.9 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Sri Lanka is 21% higher than in Norway

Norway: 11.6 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 14 per 100k (2023)

21% of adults in Norway are obese, versus 11% in Sri Lanka

Norway: 20.7% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 11.2% (2024)

21% of adults in Sri Lanka smoke, versus 13% in Norway

Norway: 12.9% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7% (2024)

People in Norway rate their lives 3.23 points higher than in Sri Lanka

Norway: 7.24 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4.01 (2025)

Adults in Norway drink 2.8 times as much alcohol as in Sri Lanka

Norway: 7 litres (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2.5 litres (2023)

Norway has 6.1 times as much meat per person as Sri Lanka

Norway: 70.4 kg (2023) · Sri Lanka: 11.6 kg (2023)

Norway has 800 kcal more food per person per day than Sri Lanka

Norway: 3,476 kcal (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,675 kcal (2023)

Workers in Sri Lanka put in 641 more hours a year than in Norway

Norway: 1,412 hours (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,053 hours (2023)

Adults in Norway went to school 2.3 years longer than in Sri Lanka

Norway: 13.1 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 10.8 years (2023)

Norway welcomed 28 times as many tourists per resident as Sri Lanka (2019)

Norway: 0.91 (2022) · Sri Lanka: 0.03 (2022)

Norway and Sri Lanka are practically level

Norway: 8 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 8 (2026)

Norway has won 616 Olympic medals, Sri Lanka 2

Norway: 616 (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026 edition)

99% of people in Norway are online, versus 55% in Sri Lanka

Norway: 99% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 55% (2024)

Home internet in Norway is 3.7 times as fast as in Sri Lanka

Norway: 228 Mbps (2026) · Sri Lanka: 63 Mbps (2026)

Norway and Sri Lanka are practically level

Norway: 100% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 100% (2024)

84% of people in Norway live in cities, versus 20% in Sri Lanka

Norway: 84% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 20% (2025)

Sri Lanka has 133 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Norway 109

Norway: 109 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 133 (2024)

Norway’s railway network is 2.5 times as long as Sri Lanka’s

Norway: 3,885 km (2021) · Sri Lanka: 1,562 km (2019)

Norway: no data · Sri Lanka: 0.18 (2023)

Forest covers 34% of Sri Lanka, but only 33% of Norway

Norway: 33.2% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 34.4% (2024)

The average person in Norway emits 7.4 times as much CO₂ as someone in Sri Lanka

Norway: 6.7 t (2024) · Sri Lanka: 0.9 t (2024)

99% of Norway’s electricity is renewable, versus 62% in Sri Lanka

Norway: 99% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 61.6% (2025)

The air in Sri Lanka carries 3.1 times as much fine dust as in Norway

Norway: 6.7 µg/m³ (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 4.6 times as likely to be murdered in Sri Lanka as in Norway

Norway: 0.7 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 3.3 per 100k (2019)

Roads in Sri Lanka are 7.3 times as deadly as in Norway

Norway: 2.9 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 21.1 per 100k (2023)

Sri Lanka is on average 25.2 °C warmer than Norway

Norway: 1.6°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Sri Lanka gets 46% more rain than Norway

Norway: 1,259 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 1,839 mm (2016–2025 avg)