South Korea’s coastline is 2.3 times as long as Pakistan’s

Pakistan: 1,046 km (2026 edition) · South Korea: 2,413 km (2026 edition)

Pakistan’s highest peak towers 6,661 m above South Korea’s

Pakistan: 8,611 m (2026 edition) · South Korea: 1,950 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 47% of Pakistan, versus 16% of South Korea

Pakistan: 47.2% (2024) · South Korea: 16% (2024)

Pakistan has 4.9 times as many people as South Korea

Pakistan: 255 million (2025) · South Korea: 51.7 million (2025)

South Korea is 60% more densely populated than Pakistan

Pakistan: 331 per km² (2025) · South Korea: 530 per km² (2025)

The typical person in South Korea is 24 years older than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 20.3 years (2023) · South Korea: 44.5 years (2023)

Women in Pakistan have 2.8 more children on average than in South Korea

Pakistan: 3.55 children per woman (2024) · South Korea: 0.75 children per woman (2024)

20% of people in South Korea are 65 or older, versus 4.4% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.4% (2025) · South Korea: 20.3% (2025)

Pakistan hosts 53 times as many refugees per resident as South Korea

Pakistan: 4.5 per 1,000 (2025) · South Korea: 0.1 per 1,000 (2025)

South Korea has produced 0.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Pakistan 0.1

Pakistan: 0.1 (2026) · South Korea: 0.6 (2026)

Pakistan has 2 official languages, South Korea 1

Pakistan: 2 (2026) · South Korea: 1 (2026)

South Korea’s economy is 4.6 times the size of Pakistan’s

Pakistan: $407 billion (2025) · South Korea: $1.87 trillion (2025)

South Korea produces 9.6 times as much per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: Int$6,573 (2025) · South Korea: Int$63,125 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Pakistan than in South Korea (Gini 0.6 points higher)

Pakistan: 33.5 (2024) · South Korea: 32.9 (2021)

23% of people in Pakistan live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.1% in South Korea

Pakistan: 23% (2024) · South Korea: 0.1% (2021)

Unemployment is 5.4% in Pakistan, versus 2.7% in South Korea

Pakistan: 5.4% (2025) · South Korea: 2.7% (2025)

Pakistan and South Korea are practically level

Pakistan: 2.9% (2025) · South Korea: 2.6% (2025)

Pakistan: no data · South Korea: 13.3% (2024)

South Korea’s price level (US = 100) is 2.4× Pakistan’s

Pakistan: 24% (2025) · South Korea: 57% (2025)

South Korea spends 103 times as much on health per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: $30 (2023) · South Korea: $3,137 (2024)

A baby in Pakistan is 21 times as likely to die before turning one as in South Korea

Pakistan: 48.2 per 1,000 (2024) · South Korea: 2.3 per 1,000 (2024)

South Korea has 2.3 times as many doctors per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: 1.2 per 1,000 (2021) · South Korea: 2.6 per 1,000 (2022)

South Korea has 20 times as many hospital beds per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.6 per 1,000 (2020) · South Korea: 12.8 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in South Korea is 2.6 times that in Pakistan

Pakistan: 9.1 per 100k (2023) · South Korea: 23.4 per 100k (2023)

24% of adults in Pakistan are obese, versus 7.5% in South Korea

Pakistan: 23.5% (2024) · South Korea: 7.5% (2024)

19% of adults in South Korea smoke, versus 18% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 17.9% (2024) · South Korea: 18.6% (2024)

People in South Korea rate their lives 1.17 points higher than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.87 (2025) · South Korea: 6.04 (2025)

Adults in South Korea drink 95 times as much alcohol as in Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.1 litres (2023) · South Korea: 8.3 litres (2023)

South Korea has 4 times as much meat per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: 21.2 kg (2023) · South Korea: 84 kg (2023)

South Korea has 917 kcal more food per person per day than Pakistan

Pakistan: 2,514 kcal (2023) · South Korea: 3,430 kcal (2023)

Workers in Pakistan put in 561 more hours a year than in South Korea

Pakistan: 2,471 hours (2023) · South Korea: 1,910 hours (2023)

Adults in South Korea went to school 8.4 years longer than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.3 years (2023) · South Korea: 12.7 years (2023)

Pakistan: no data · South Korea: 0.32 (2024)

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

Pakistan: 6 (2026) · South Korea: 17 (2026)

South Korea has won 409 Olympic medals, Pakistan 11

Pakistan: 11 (2026 edition) · South Korea: 409 (2026 edition)

98% of people in South Korea are online, versus 57% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 57% (2024) · South Korea: 98% (2024)

Home internet in South Korea is 13 times as fast as in Pakistan

Pakistan: 24 Mbps (2026) · South Korea: 298 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in South Korea have electricity, versus 96% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 95.7% (2024) · South Korea: 100% (2024)

81% of people in South Korea live in cities, versus 40% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 40% (2025) · South Korea: 81% (2025)

South Korea has 173 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Pakistan 77

Pakistan: 77 (2024) · South Korea: 173 (2024)

Pakistan’s railway network is 81% longer than South Korea’s

Pakistan: 7,791 km (2019) · South Korea: 4,309 km (2021)

Airlines from South Korea fly 53 times as many passengers per resident as those from Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.03 (2023) · South Korea: 1.48 (2023)

Forest covers 64% of South Korea, but only 4.1% of Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.1% (2024) · South Korea: 64.4% (2024)

The average person in South Korea emits 16 times as much CO₂ as someone in Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.7 t (2024) · South Korea: 11.3 t (2024)

43% of Pakistan’s electricity is renewable, versus 10% in South Korea

Pakistan: 42.7% (2025) · South Korea: 10.4% (2025)

The air in Pakistan carries 2.6 times as much fine dust as in South Korea

Pakistan: 53.8 µg/m³ (2024) · South Korea: 21 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 9.1 times as likely to be murdered in Pakistan as in South Korea

Pakistan: 4.3 per 100k (2023) · South Korea: 0.5 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Pakistan are 92% deadlier than in South Korea

Pakistan: 16.7 per 100k (2023) · South Korea: 8.7 per 100k (2023)

Pakistan is on average 7.9 °C warmer than South Korea

Pakistan: 21°C (2016–2025 avg) · South Korea: 13.2°C (2016–2025 avg)

South Korea gets 3 times as much rain as Pakistan

Pakistan: 416 mm (2016–2025 avg) · South Korea: 1,265 mm (2016–2025 avg)