Portugal’s coastline is 71% longer than Pakistan’s

Pakistan: 1,046 km (2026 edition) · Portugal: 1,793 km (2026 edition)

Pakistan’s highest peak towers 6,260 m above Portugal’s

Pakistan: 8,611 m (2026 edition) · Portugal: 2,351 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 47% of Pakistan, versus 41% of Portugal

Pakistan: 47.2% (2024) · Portugal: 41.3% (2024)

Pakistan has 24 times as many people as Portugal

Pakistan: 255 million (2025) · Portugal: 10.8 million (2025)

Pakistan is 2.8 times as densely populated as Portugal

Pakistan: 331 per km² (2025) · Portugal: 118 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Portugal is 26 years older than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 20.3 years (2023) · Portugal: 46.2 years (2023)

Women in Pakistan have 2.1 more children on average than in Portugal

Pakistan: 3.55 children per woman (2024) · Portugal: 1.41 children per woman (2024)

25% of people in Portugal are 65 or older, versus 4.4% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.4% (2025) · Portugal: 24.9% (2025)

Portugal hosts 43% more refugees per resident than Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Portugal: 6.5 per 1,000 (2025)

Portugal has produced 1.9 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Pakistan 0.1

Pakistan: 0.1 (2026) · Portugal: 1.9 (2026)

Pakistan has 2 official languages, Portugal 1

Pakistan: 2 (2026) · Portugal: 1 (2026)

Pakistan’s economy is 18% larger than Portugal’s

Pakistan: $407 billion (2025) · Portugal: $347 billion (2025)

Portugal produces 8.1 times as much per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: Int$6,573 (2025) · Portugal: Int$53,146 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Portugal than in Pakistan (Gini 0.4 points higher)

Pakistan: 33.5 (2024) · Portugal: 33.9 (2023)

23% of people in Pakistan live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.4% in Portugal

Pakistan: 23% (2024) · Portugal: 0.4% (2023)

Unemployment is 6.2% in Portugal, versus 5.4% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 5.4% (2025) · Portugal: 6.2% (2025)

Pakistan spends 2.9% of its GDP on the military, Portugal 1.7%

Pakistan: 2.9% (2025) · Portugal: 1.7% (2025)

Pakistan: no data · Portugal: 22.3% (2024)

Portugal’s price level (US = 100) is 2.5× Pakistan’s

Pakistan: 24% (2025) · Portugal: 60% (2025)

Portugal spends 97 times as much on health per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: $30 (2023) · Portugal: $2,971 (2024)

A baby in Pakistan is 18 times as likely to die before turning one as in Portugal

Pakistan: 48.2 per 1,000 (2024) · Portugal: 2.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Portugal has 5 times as many doctors per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: 1.2 per 1,000 (2021) · Portugal: 5.9 per 1,000 (2022)

Portugal has 5.5 times as many hospital beds per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.6 per 1,000 (2020) · Portugal: 3.5 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Pakistan is 6% higher than in Portugal

Pakistan: 9.1 per 100k (2023) · Portugal: 8.6 per 100k (2023)

24% of adults in Pakistan are obese, versus 23% in Portugal

Pakistan: 23.5% (2024) · Portugal: 23% (2024)

29% of adults in Portugal smoke, versus 18% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 17.9% (2024) · Portugal: 28.6% (2024)

People in Portugal rate their lives 1.16 points higher than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.87 (2025) · Portugal: 6.03 (2025)

Adults in Portugal drink 159 times as much alcohol as in Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.1 litres (2023) · Portugal: 13.7 litres (2023)

Portugal has 4.7 times as much meat per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: 21.2 kg (2023) · Portugal: 99.3 kg (2023)

Portugal has 1,039 kcal more food per person per day than Pakistan

Pakistan: 2,514 kcal (2023) · Portugal: 3,553 kcal (2023)

Workers in Pakistan put in 736 more hours a year than in Portugal

Pakistan: 2,471 hours (2023) · Portugal: 1,735 hours (2023)

Adults in Portugal went to school 5.4 years longer than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.3 years (2023) · Portugal: 9.7 years (2023)

Pakistan: no data · Portugal: 2.71 (2024)

Portugal has 11 more World Heritage sites than Pakistan (17 against 6)

Pakistan: 6 (2026) · Portugal: 17 (2026)

Portugal has won 32 Olympic medals, Pakistan 11

Pakistan: 11 (2026 edition) · Portugal: 32 (2026 edition)

88% of people in Portugal are online, versus 57% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 57% (2024) · Portugal: 88% (2024)

Home internet in Portugal is 14 times as fast as in Pakistan

Pakistan: 24 Mbps (2026) · Portugal: 330 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Portugal have electricity, versus 96% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 95.7% (2024) · Portugal: 100% (2024)

61% of people in Portugal live in cities, versus 40% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 40% (2025) · Portugal: 61% (2025)

Portugal has 124 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Pakistan 77

Pakistan: 77 (2024) · Portugal: 124 (2024)

Pakistan’s railway network is 3.1 times as long as Portugal’s

Pakistan: 7,791 km (2019) · Portugal: 2,527 km (2021)

Airlines from Portugal fly 60 times as many passengers per resident as those from Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.03 (2023) · Portugal: 1.69 (2023)

Forest covers 37% of Portugal, but only 4.1% of Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.1% (2024) · Portugal: 36.6% (2024)

The average person in Portugal emits 4.8 times as much CO₂ as someone in Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.7 t (2024) · Portugal: 3.4 t (2024)

81% of Portugal’s electricity is renewable, versus 43% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 42.7% (2025) · Portugal: 81% (2025)

The air in Pakistan carries 5.1 times as much fine dust as in Portugal

Pakistan: 53.8 µg/m³ (2024) · Portugal: 10.5 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 6 times as likely to be murdered in Pakistan as in Portugal

Pakistan: 4.3 per 100k (2023) · Portugal: 0.7 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Pakistan are 52% deadlier than in Portugal

Pakistan: 16.7 per 100k (2023) · Portugal: 11 per 100k (2023)

Pakistan is on average 5.1 °C warmer than Portugal

Pakistan: 21°C (2016–2025 avg) · Portugal: 15.9°C (2016–2025 avg)

Portugal gets 87% more rain than Pakistan

Pakistan: 416 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Portugal: 777 mm (2016–2025 avg)