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Land

Size, shape and altitude

Total area

How big is it, really?

Pakistan fits inside Saudi Arabia 2.7 times

Pakistan: 796,100 km² (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 2,149,690 km² (2024)

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Coastline

How much coast is there?

Saudi Arabia’s coastline is 2.5 times as long as Pakistan’s

Pakistan: 1,046 km (2026 edition) · Saudi Arabia: 2,640 km (2026 edition)

Highest point

How high can you climb?

Pakistan’s highest peak towers 5,611 m above Saudi Arabia’s

Pakistan: 8,611 m (2026 edition) · Saudi Arabia: 3,000 m (2026 edition)

Farmland

How much of the land is farmed?

Farmland covers 82% of Saudi Arabia, versus 47% of Pakistan

Pakistan: 47.2% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 81.7% (2024)

How far apart are they?

People

Who lives there, and how closely

Population

How many people live there?

Pakistan has 6.9 times as many people as Saudi Arabia

Pakistan: 255 million (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 37 million (2025)

Population density

How crowded is it?

Pakistan is 19 times as densely populated as Saudi Arabia

Pakistan: 331 per km² (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 17 per km² (2025)

Height of men

How tall are the men?

Men in Saudi Arabia are 3.3 cm taller than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 167.3 cm (2019) · Saudi Arabia: 170.7 cm (2019)

Height of women

How tall are the women?

Women in Saudi Arabia are 4.1 cm taller than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 154.8 cm (2019) · Saudi Arabia: 158.8 cm (2019)

Median age

How old is the typical person?

The typical person in Saudi Arabia is 9 years older than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 20.3 years (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 29.2 years (2023)

Fertility rate

How many children per woman?

Women in Pakistan have 1.2 more children on average than in Saudi Arabia

Pakistan: 3.55 children per woman (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 2.31 children per woman (2024)

Aged 65 and over

How many people are 65 or older?

4.4% of people in Pakistan are 65 or older, versus 3.1% in Saudi Arabia

Pakistan: 4.4% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 3.1% (2025)

Refugees hosted per 1,000 residents

How many refugees does it host?

Pakistan hosts 375 times as many refugees per resident as Saudi Arabia

Pakistan: 4.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 0.012 per 1,000 (2025)

Nobel laureates per 10 million people

How many Nobel laureates were born there?

Pakistan has produced 0.1 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Saudi Arabia none

Pakistan: 0.1 (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 0 (2026)

Official languages

How many official languages?

Pakistan has 2 official languages, Saudi Arabia 1

Pakistan: 2 (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 1 (2026)

What shape is the population?

Money

What an economy looks like per person

Economy size (GDP)

How big is the economy?

Saudi Arabia’s economy is 3.1 times the size of Pakistan’s

Pakistan: $407 billion (2025) · Saudi Arabia: $1.28 trillion (2025)

GDP per person (PPP)

How much is produced per person?

Saudi Arabia produces 11 times as much per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: Int$6,573 (2025) · Saudi Arabia: Int$73,784 (2025)

Income inequality (Gini)

How evenly is income shared?

Pakistan: 33.5 (2024) · Saudi Arabia: no data

Extreme poverty ($3.00 a day)

How many live on less than $3 a day?

Pakistan: 23% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: no data

Unemployment

How many people are looking for work?

Unemployment is 5.4% in Pakistan, versus 3.0% in Saudi Arabia

Pakistan: 5.4% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 3% (2025)

Military spending

How much goes to the military?

Saudi Arabia spends 6.5% of its GDP on the military, Pakistan 2.9%

Pakistan: 2.9% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 6.5% (2025)

Tax revenue (central government)

How much does the central government collect in tax?

Pakistan: no data · Saudi Arabia: 8.1% (2024)

Price level (US = 100)

How expensive is it?

Saudi Arabia’s price level (US = 100) is 1.9× Pakistan’s

Pakistan: 24% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 47% (2025)

Health

Long lives, small beginnings

Health spending per person

How much is spent on health?

Saudi Arabia spends 60 times as much on health per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: $30 (2023) · Saudi Arabia: $1,825 (2023)

Life expectancy

How long do people live?

People in Saudi Arabia live 11 years longer than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 67.8 years (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 79 years (2024)

Infant mortality

How many babies don’t reach their first birthday?

A baby in Pakistan is 10 times as likely to die before turning one as in Saudi Arabia

Pakistan: 48.2 per 1,000 (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 4.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Doctors

How many doctors are there?

Saudi Arabia has 2.9 times as many doctors per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: 1.2 per 1,000 (2021) · Saudi Arabia: 3.4 per 1,000 (2023)

Hospital beds

How many hospital beds are there?

Saudi Arabia has 3.8 times as many hospital beds per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.6 per 1,000 (2020) · Saudi Arabia: 2.4 per 1,000 (2023)

Suicide rate

How common is suicide?

The suicide rate in Pakistan is 4.1 times that in Saudi Arabia

Pakistan: 9.1 per 100k (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 2.2 per 100k (2023)

Adult obesity

How common is obesity?

39% of adults in Saudi Arabia are obese, versus 24% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 23.5% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 39.2% (2024)

Smoking

How many adults smoke?

18% of adults in Pakistan smoke, versus 15% in Saudi Arabia

Pakistan: 17.9% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 14.7% (2024)

Everyday life

Plates, glasses and happiness

Life satisfaction

How do people rate their lives?

People in Saudi Arabia rate their lives 1.95 points higher than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.87 (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 6.82 (2025)

Alcohol consumption

How much do people drink?

Pakistan: 0.1 litres (2023) · Saudi Arabia: no data

Meat supply

How much meat is on the menu?

Saudi Arabia has 2.7 times as much meat per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: 21.2 kg (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 58.1 kg (2023)

Daily calories

How much food is there per day?

Saudi Arabia has 1,146 kcal more food per person per day than Pakistan

Pakistan: 2,514 kcal (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 3,660 kcal (2023)

Working hours

How long do people work?

Workers in Pakistan put in 347 more hours a year than in Saudi Arabia

Pakistan: 2,471 hours (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 2,125 hours (2023)

Years of schooling

How long do people go to school?

Adults in Saudi Arabia went to school 7.3 years longer than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.3 years (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 11.6 years (2023)

Tourists per resident

How many tourists visit?

Pakistan: no data · Saudi Arabia: 0.84 (2024)

World Heritage sites

How many World Heritage sites?

Saudi Arabia has 2 more World Heritage sites than Pakistan (8 against 6)

Pakistan: 6 (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 8 (2026)

Olympic medals (all time)

How many Olympic medals has it won?

Pakistan has won 11 Olympic medals, Saudi Arabia 4

Pakistan: 11 (2026 edition) · Saudi Arabia: 4 (2026 edition)

Connected

Online, electrified, urban

Internet users

How many people are online?

100% of people in Saudi Arabia are online, versus 57% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 57% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 100% (2024)

Fixed broadband download speed

How fast is home internet?

Home internet in Saudi Arabia is 8.3 times as fast as in Pakistan

Pakistan: 24 Mbps (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 196 Mbps (2026)

Access to electricity

Who has electricity at home?

100% of people in Saudi Arabia have electricity, versus 96% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 95.7% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 100% (2024)

Urban population

How many live in cities?

85% of people in Saudi Arabia live in cities, versus 40% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 40% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 85% (2025)

Mobile subscriptions

How many phones per person?

Saudi Arabia has 160 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Pakistan 77

Pakistan: 77 (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 160 (2024)

Railway network

How much railway is there?

Pakistan’s railway network is 2.7 times as long as Saudi Arabia’s

Pakistan: 7,791 km (2019) · Saudi Arabia: 2,939 km (2018)

Air passengers per resident

How much do they fly?

Airlines from Saudi Arabia fly 46 times as many passengers per resident as those from Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.03 (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 1.3 (2023)

Planet

Air, forests and energy

Forest cover

How much of the land is forest?

Forest covers 4.1% of Pakistan, but only 1.3% of Saudi Arabia

Pakistan: 4.1% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 1.3% (2024)

CO₂ per person

How much CO₂ does each person emit?

The average person in Saudi Arabia emits 28 times as much CO₂ as someone in Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.7 t (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 20.4 t (2024)

Renewable electricity

How green is the power grid?

43% of Pakistan’s electricity is renewable, versus 2.2% in Saudi Arabia

Pakistan: 42.7% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 2.2% (2024)

Air pollution (PM2.5)

How clean is the air?

The air in Pakistan carries 7% more fine dust than in Saudi Arabia

Pakistan: 53.8 µg/m³ (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 50.4 µg/m³ (2024)

Where does the power come from?

Safety

Measured risk, not vibes

Homicide rate

How common is murder?

You are 4.6 times as likely to be murdered in Pakistan as in Saudi Arabia

Pakistan: 4.3 per 100k (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 0.9 per 100k (2019)

Road deaths

How dangerous are the roads?

Roads in Saudi Arabia are 28% deadlier than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 16.7 per 100k (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 21.4 per 100k (2023)

Climate

What the year feels like

Average temperature

How warm is it?

Saudi Arabia is on average 5.8 °C warmer than Pakistan

Pakistan: 21°C (2016–2025 avg) · Saudi Arabia: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Rainfall

How much rain falls?

Pakistan gets 6.8 times as much rain as Saudi Arabia

Pakistan: 416 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Saudi Arabia: 61 mm (2016–2025 avg)

What does the year feel like?

Between them

People, goods and passports that cross from one to the other

Who has moved between them?
Can they visit without a visa?
What do they sell each other?
Have they met on the pitch?
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Quick answers

Is Pakistan bigger than Saudi Arabia?

Saudi Arabia is larger. Pakistan fits inside Saudi Arabia 2.7 times.

Which has more people, Pakistan or Saudi Arabia?

Pakistan has 6.9 times as many people as Saudi Arabia (2025 estimates).

Where do people live longer, Pakistan or Saudi Arabia?

People in Saudi Arabia live 11 years longer than in Pakistan. Life expectancy at birth is 67.8 years in Pakistan and 79.0 in Saudi Arabia.

Are people taller in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia?

Men in Saudi Arabia are 3.3 cm taller than in Pakistan (NCD-RisC, cohort born 2019).

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