Sri Lanka’s coastline is 28% longer than Pakistan’s

Pakistan: 1,046 km (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 1,340 km (2026 edition)

Pakistan’s highest peak towers 6,087 m above Sri Lanka’s

Pakistan: 8,611 m (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2,524 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 49% of Sri Lanka, versus 47% of Pakistan

Pakistan: 47.2% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 48.8% (2024)

Pakistan has 12 times as many people as Sri Lanka

Pakistan: 255 million (2025) · Sri Lanka: 21.8 million (2025)

Sri Lanka is 6% more densely populated than Pakistan

Pakistan: 331 per km² (2025) · Sri Lanka: 352 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sri Lanka is 13 years older than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 20.3 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 32.8 years (2023)

Women in Pakistan have 1.6 more children on average than in Sri Lanka

Pakistan: 3.55 children per woman (2024) · Sri Lanka: 1.95 children per woman (2024)

12% of people in Sri Lanka are 65 or older, versus 4.4% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.4% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 12.5% (2025)

Pakistan hosts 464 times as many refugees per resident as Sri Lanka

Pakistan: 4.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 0.0098 per 1,000 (2025)

Pakistan has produced 0.1 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Sri Lanka none

Pakistan: 0.1 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 0 (2026)

Pakistan and Sri Lanka are practically level

Pakistan: 2 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026)

Pakistan’s economy is 3.7 times the size of Sri Lanka’s

Pakistan: $407 billion (2025) · Sri Lanka: $109 billion (2025)

Sri Lanka produces 2.6 times as much per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: Int$6,573 (2025) · Sri Lanka: Int$17,065 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Sri Lanka than in Pakistan (Gini 4.2 points higher)

Pakistan: 33.5 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 37.7 (2019)

23% of people in Pakistan live on less than $3 a day, versus 2.7% in Sri Lanka

Pakistan: 23% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 2.7% (2019)

Unemployment is 5.4% in Pakistan, versus 4.0% in Sri Lanka

Pakistan: 5.4% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4% (2025)

Pakistan spends 2.9% of its GDP on the military, Sri Lanka 1.3%

Pakistan: 2.9% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 1.3% (2025)

Pakistan: no data · Sri Lanka: 9.9% (2023)

Sri Lanka’s price level (US = 100) is 1.2× Pakistan’s

Pakistan: 24% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 29% (2025)

Sri Lanka spends 4.4 times as much on health per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: $30 (2023) · Sri Lanka: $134 (2023)

A baby in Pakistan is 9.3 times as likely to die before turning one as in Sri Lanka

Pakistan: 48.2 per 1,000 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 5.2 per 1,000 (2024)

Pakistan has 2% more doctors per person than Sri Lanka

Pakistan: 1.2 per 1,000 (2021) · Sri Lanka: 1.1 per 1,000 (2023)

Sri Lanka has 6.2 times as many hospital beds per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.6 per 1,000 (2020) · Sri Lanka: 3.9 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Sri Lanka is 54% higher than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 9.1 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 14 per 100k (2023)

24% of adults in Pakistan are obese, versus 11% in Sri Lanka

Pakistan: 23.5% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 11.2% (2024)

21% of adults in Sri Lanka smoke, versus 18% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 17.9% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7% (2024)

People in Pakistan rate their lives 0.86 points higher than in Sri Lanka

Pakistan: 4.87 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4.01 (2025)

Adults in Sri Lanka drink 29 times as much alcohol as in Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.1 litres (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2.5 litres (2023)

Pakistan has 84% more meat per person than Sri Lanka

Pakistan: 21.2 kg (2023) · Sri Lanka: 11.6 kg (2023)

Sri Lanka has 161 kcal more food per person per day than Pakistan

Pakistan: 2,514 kcal (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,675 kcal (2023)

Workers in Pakistan put in 418 more hours a year than in Sri Lanka

Pakistan: 2,471 hours (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,053 hours (2023)

Adults in Sri Lanka went to school 6.5 years longer than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.3 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 10.8 years (2023)

Pakistan: no data · Sri Lanka: 0.03 (2022)

Sri Lanka has 2 more World Heritage sites than Pakistan (8 against 6)

Pakistan: 6 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 8 (2026)

Pakistan has won 11 Olympic medals, Sri Lanka 2

Pakistan: 11 (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026 edition)

57% of people in Pakistan are online, versus 55% in Sri Lanka

Pakistan: 57% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 55% (2024)

Home internet in Sri Lanka is 2.6 times as fast as in Pakistan

Pakistan: 24 Mbps (2026) · Sri Lanka: 63 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Sri Lanka have electricity, versus 96% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 95.7% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 100% (2024)

40% of people in Pakistan live in cities, versus 20% in Sri Lanka

Pakistan: 40% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 20% (2025)

Sri Lanka has 133 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Pakistan 77

Pakistan: 77 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 133 (2024)

Pakistan’s railway network is 5 times as long as Sri Lanka’s

Pakistan: 7,791 km (2019) · Sri Lanka: 1,562 km (2019)

Airlines from Sri Lanka fly 6.3 times as many passengers per resident as those from Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.03 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 0.18 (2023)

Forest covers 34% of Sri Lanka, but only 4.1% of Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.1% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 34.4% (2024)

The average person in Sri Lanka emits 26% more CO₂ than someone in Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.7 t (2024) · Sri Lanka: 0.9 t (2024)

62% of Sri Lanka’s electricity is renewable, versus 43% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 42.7% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 61.6% (2025)

The air in Pakistan carries 2.6 times as much fine dust as in Sri Lanka

Pakistan: 53.8 µg/m³ (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 31% more likely to be murdered in Pakistan than in Sri Lanka

Pakistan: 4.3 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 3.3 per 100k (2019)

Roads in Sri Lanka are 26% deadlier than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 16.7 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 21.1 per 100k (2023)

Sri Lanka is on average 5.8 °C warmer than Pakistan

Pakistan: 21°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Sri Lanka gets 4.4 times as much rain as Pakistan

Pakistan: 416 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 1,839 mm (2016–2025 avg)