Sweden’s coastline is 3.1 times as long as Pakistan’s

Pakistan: 1,046 km (2026 edition) · Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition)

Pakistan’s highest peak towers 6,511 m above Sweden’s

Pakistan: 8,611 m (2026 edition) · Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 47% of Pakistan, versus 7.3% of Sweden

Pakistan: 47.2% (2024) · Sweden: 7.3% (2024)

Pakistan has 24 times as many people as Sweden

Pakistan: 255 million (2025) · Sweden: 10.6 million (2025)

Pakistan is 13 times as densely populated as Sweden

Pakistan: 331 per km² (2025) · Sweden: 26 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sweden is 20 years older than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 20.3 years (2023) · Sweden: 39.9 years (2023)

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

Pakistan: 3.55 children per woman (2024) · Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Sweden are 65 or older, versus 4.4% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.4% (2025) · Sweden: 20.9% (2025)

Sweden hosts 3 times as many refugees per resident as Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Sweden has produced 28.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Pakistan 0.1

Pakistan: 0.1 (2026) · Sweden: 28.3 (2026)

Pakistan has 2 official languages, Sweden 1

Pakistan: 2 (2026) · Sweden: 1 (2026)

Sweden’s economy is 64% larger than Pakistan’s

Pakistan: $407 billion (2025) · Sweden: $669 billion (2025)

Sweden produces 11 times as much per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: Int$6,573 (2025) · Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025)

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

Pakistan: 33.5 (2024) · Sweden: 29.3 (2023)

23% of people in Pakistan live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.8% in Sweden

Pakistan: 23% (2024) · Sweden: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.7% in Sweden, versus 5.4% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 5.4% (2025) · Sweden: 8.7% (2025)

Pakistan and Sweden are practically level

Pakistan: 2.9% (2025) · Sweden: 2.5% (2025)

Pakistan: no data · Sweden: 27.2% (2024)

Sweden’s price level (US = 100) is 3.6× Pakistan’s

Pakistan: 24% (2025) · Sweden: 87% (2025)

Sweden spends 213 times as much on health per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: $30 (2023) · Sweden: $6,485 (2024)

A baby in Pakistan is 24 times as likely to die before turning one as in Sweden

Pakistan: 48.2 per 1,000 (2024) · Sweden: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Sweden has 3.8 times as many doctors per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: 1.2 per 1,000 (2021) · Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021)

Sweden has 3 times as many hospital beds per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.6 per 1,000 (2020) · Sweden: 1.9 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Sweden is 40% higher than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 9.1 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023)

24% of adults in Pakistan are obese, versus 19% in Sweden

Pakistan: 23.5% (2024) · Sweden: 18.7% (2024)

20% of adults in Sweden smoke, versus 18% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 17.9% (2024) · Sweden: 20.3% (2024)

People in Sweden rate their lives 2.39 points higher than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.87 (2025) · Sweden: 7.26 (2025)

Adults in Sweden drink 100 times as much alcohol as in Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.1 litres (2023) · Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023)

Sweden has 3.2 times as much meat per person as Pakistan

Pakistan: 21.2 kg (2023) · Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023)

Sweden has 853 kcal more food per person per day than Pakistan

Pakistan: 2,514 kcal (2023) · Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023)

Workers in Pakistan put in 1,040 more hours a year than in Sweden

Pakistan: 2,471 hours (2023) · Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023)

Adults in Sweden went to school 8.4 years longer than in Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.3 years (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 years (2023)

Pakistan: no data · Sweden: 0.63 (2022)

Sweden has 9 more World Heritage sites than Pakistan (15 against 6)

Pakistan: 6 (2026) · Sweden: 15 (2026)

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, Pakistan 11

Pakistan: 11 (2026 edition) · Sweden: 709 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Sweden are online, versus 57% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 57% (2024) · Sweden: 96% (2025)

Home internet in Sweden is 11 times as fast as in Pakistan

Pakistan: 24 Mbps (2026) · Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026)

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

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

89% of people in Sweden live in cities, versus 40% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 40% (2025) · Sweden: 89% (2025)

Sweden has 141 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Pakistan 77

Pakistan: 77 (2024) · Sweden: 141 (2024)

Sweden’s railway network is 25% longer than Pakistan’s

Pakistan: 7,791 km (2019) · Sweden: 9,714 km (2021)

Airlines from Sweden fly 66 times as many passengers per resident as those from Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.03 (2023) · Sweden: 1.85 (2023)

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 4.1% of Pakistan

Pakistan: 4.1% (2024) · Sweden: 68.6% (2024)

The average person in Sweden emits 5 times as much CO₂ as someone in Pakistan

Pakistan: 0.7 t (2024) · Sweden: 3.6 t (2024)

71% of Sweden’s electricity is renewable, versus 43% in Pakistan

Pakistan: 42.7% (2025) · Sweden: 71.2% (2025)

The air in Pakistan carries 9.4 times as much fine dust as in Sweden

Pakistan: 53.8 µg/m³ (2024) · Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 3.8 times as likely to be murdered in Pakistan as in Sweden

Pakistan: 4.3 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 1.1 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Pakistan are 4.9 times as deadly as in Sweden

Pakistan: 16.7 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023)

Pakistan is on average 16.7 °C warmer than Sweden

Pakistan: 21°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 4.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Sweden gets 93% more rain than Pakistan

Pakistan: 416 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 801 mm (2016–2025 avg)