The Philippines’ coastline is 15 times as long as South Korea’s

Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition) · South Korea: 2,413 km (2026 edition)

The Philippines’ highest peak towers 1,004 m above South Korea’s

Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition) · South Korea: 1,950 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 43% of the Philippines, versus 16% of South Korea

Philippines: 42.7% (2024) · South Korea: 16% (2024)

The Philippines has 2.3 times as many people as South Korea

Philippines: 117 million (2025) · South Korea: 51.7 million (2025)

South Korea is 35% more densely populated than the Philippines

Philippines: 392 per km² (2025) · South Korea: 530 per km² (2025)

The typical person in South Korea is 19 years older than in the Philippines

Philippines: 25.3 years (2023) · South Korea: 44.5 years (2023)

Women in the Philippines have 1.1 more children on average than in South Korea

Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024) · South Korea: 0.75 children per woman (2024)

20% of people in South Korea are 65 or older, versus 5.7% in the Philippines

Philippines: 5.7% (2025) · South Korea: 20.3% (2025)

South Korea hosts 9.6 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025) · South Korea: 0.1 per 1,000 (2025)

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

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

The Philippines has 2 official languages, South Korea 1

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

South Korea’s economy is 3.8 times the size of the Philippines’

Philippines: $487 billion (2025) · South Korea: $1.87 trillion (2025)

South Korea produces 5 times as much per person as the Philippines

Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025) · South Korea: Int$63,125 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the Philippines than in South Korea (Gini 6.4 points higher)

Philippines: 39.3 (2023) · South Korea: 32.9 (2021)

5.3% of people in the Philippines live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.1% in South Korea

Philippines: 5.3% (2023) · South Korea: 0.1% (2021)

South Korea and the Philippines are practically level

Philippines: 2.2% (2025) · South Korea: 2.7% (2025)

South Korea spends 2.6% of its GDP on the military, the Philippines 1.3%

Philippines: 1.3% (2025) · South Korea: 2.6% (2025)

The Philippines’ central government collects 14% of GDP in tax, South Korea’s 13%

Philippines: 14.4% (2024) · South Korea: 13.3% (2024)

South Korea’s price level (US = 100) is 1.7× the Philippines’

Philippines: 33% (2025) · South Korea: 57% (2025)

South Korea spends 16 times as much on health per person as the Philippines

Philippines: $194 (2023) · South Korea: $3,137 (2024)

A baby in the Philippines is 9.4 times as likely to die before turning one as in South Korea

Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024) · South Korea: 2.3 per 1,000 (2024)

South Korea has 3.3 times as many doctors per person as the Philippines

Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021) · South Korea: 2.6 per 1,000 (2022)

South Korea has 13 times as many hospital beds per person as the Philippines

Philippines: 1 per 1,000 (2021) · South Korea: 12.8 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in South Korea is 7.5 times that in the Philippines

Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023) · South Korea: 23.4 per 100k (2023)

9.7% of adults in the Philippines are obese, versus 7.5% in South Korea

Philippines: 9.7% (2024) · South Korea: 7.5% (2024)

20% of adults in the Philippines smoke, versus 19% in South Korea

Philippines: 19.9% (2024) · South Korea: 18.6% (2024)

People in the Philippines rate their lives 0.17 points higher than in South Korea

Philippines: 6.21 (2025) · South Korea: 6.04 (2025)

Adults in South Korea drink 36% more alcohol than in the Philippines

Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023) · South Korea: 8.3 litres (2023)

South Korea has 2.5 times as much meat per person as the Philippines

Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023) · South Korea: 84 kg (2023)

South Korea has 447 kcal more food per person per day than the Philippines

Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023) · South Korea: 3,430 kcal (2023)

Workers in the Philippines put in 186 more hours a year than in South Korea

Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023) · South Korea: 1,910 hours (2023)

Adults in South Korea went to school 2.7 years longer than in the Philippines

Philippines: 10 years (2023) · South Korea: 12.7 years (2023)

South Korea welcomed 14 times as many tourists per resident as the Philippines (2019)

Philippines: 0.02 (2022) · South Korea: 0.32 (2024)

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

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

South Korea has won 409 Olympic medals, the Philippines 18

Philippines: 18 (2026 edition) · South Korea: 409 (2026 edition)

98% of people in South Korea are online, versus 67% in the Philippines

Philippines: 67% (2024) · South Korea: 98% (2024)

Home internet in South Korea is 80% faster than in the Philippines

Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026) · South Korea: 298 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in South Korea have electricity, versus 95% in the Philippines

Philippines: 94.8% (2024) · South Korea: 100% (2024)

81% of people in South Korea live in cities, versus 56% in the Philippines

Philippines: 56% (2025) · South Korea: 81% (2025)

South Korea has 173 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, the Philippines 115

Philippines: 115 (2024) · South Korea: 173 (2024)

South Korea’s railway network is 8.5 times as long as the Philippines’

Philippines: 509 km (2016) · South Korea: 4,309 km (2021)

Airlines from South Korea fly 4.2 times as many passengers per resident as those from the Philippines

Philippines: 0.36 (2023) · South Korea: 1.48 (2023)

Forest covers 64% of South Korea, but only 25% of the Philippines

Philippines: 24.8% (2024) · South Korea: 64.4% (2024)

The average person in South Korea emits 7.5 times as much CO₂ as someone in the Philippines

Philippines: 1.5 t (2024) · South Korea: 11.3 t (2024)

23% of the Philippines’ electricity is renewable, versus 10% in South Korea

Philippines: 23.3% (2025) · South Korea: 10.4% (2025)

The air in the Philippines carries 10% more fine dust than in South Korea

Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024) · South Korea: 21 µg/m³ (2024)

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

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

Roads in the Philippines are 59% deadlier than in South Korea

Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023) · South Korea: 8.7 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 13.2 °C warmer than South Korea

Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg) · South Korea: 13.2°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Philippines gets 2.4 times as much rain as South Korea

Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg) · South Korea: 1,265 mm (2016–2025 avg)