The Philippines’ coastline is 11 times as long as Sweden’s

Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition) · Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition)

The Philippines’ highest peak towers 854 m above Sweden’s

Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition) · Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 43% of the Philippines, versus 7.3% of Sweden

Philippines: 42.7% (2024) · Sweden: 7.3% (2024)

The Philippines has 11 times as many people as Sweden

Philippines: 117 million (2025) · Sweden: 10.6 million (2025)

The Philippines is 15 times as densely populated as Sweden

Philippines: 392 per km² (2025) · Sweden: 26 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sweden is 15 years older than in the Philippines

Philippines: 25.3 years (2023) · Sweden: 39.9 years (2023)

Women in the Philippines have 0.5 more children on average than in Sweden

Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024) · Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Sweden are 65 or older, versus 5.7% in the Philippines

Philippines: 5.7% (2025) · Sweden: 20.9% (2025)

Sweden hosts 1,539 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025) · Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025)

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

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

The Philippines has 2 official languages, Sweden 1

Philippines: 2 (2026) · Sweden: 1 (2026)

Sweden’s economy is 37% larger than the Philippines’

Philippines: $487 billion (2025) · Sweden: $669 billion (2025)

Sweden produces 5.8 times as much per person as the Philippines

Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025) · Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the Philippines than in Sweden (Gini 10 points higher)

Philippines: 39.3 (2023) · Sweden: 29.3 (2023)

5.3% of people in the Philippines live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.8% in Sweden

Philippines: 5.3% (2023) · Sweden: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.7% in Sweden, versus 2.2% in the Philippines

Philippines: 2.2% (2025) · Sweden: 8.7% (2025)

Sweden spends 2.5% of its GDP on the military, the Philippines 1.3%

Philippines: 1.3% (2025) · Sweden: 2.5% (2025)

Sweden’s central government collects 27% of GDP in tax, the Philippines’ 14%

Philippines: 14.4% (2024) · Sweden: 27.2% (2024)

Sweden’s price level (US = 100) is 2.6× the Philippines’

Philippines: 33% (2025) · Sweden: 87% (2025)

Sweden spends 33 times as much on health per person as the Philippines

Philippines: $194 (2023) · Sweden: $6,485 (2024)

A baby in the Philippines is 11 times as likely to die before turning one as in Sweden

Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024) · Sweden: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Sweden has 5.6 times as many doctors per person as the Philippines

Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021) · Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021)

Sweden has 2 times as many hospital beds per person as the Philippines

Philippines: 1 per 1,000 (2021) · Sweden: 1.9 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Sweden is 4.1 times that in the Philippines

Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023)

19% of adults in Sweden are obese, versus 9.7% in the Philippines

Philippines: 9.7% (2024) · Sweden: 18.7% (2024)

Sweden and the Philippines are practically level

Philippines: 19.9% (2024) · Sweden: 20.3% (2024)

People in Sweden rate their lives 1.05 points higher than in the Philippines

Philippines: 6.21 (2025) · Sweden: 7.26 (2025)

Adults in Sweden drink 42% more alcohol than in the Philippines

Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023) · Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023)

Sweden has 2 times as much meat per person as the Philippines

Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023) · Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023)

Sweden has 384 kcal more food per person per day than the Philippines

Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023) · Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023)

Workers in the Philippines put in 664 more hours a year than in Sweden

Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023) · Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023)

Adults in Sweden went to school 2.8 years longer than in the Philippines

Philippines: 10 years (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 years (2023)

Sweden welcomed 27 times as many tourists per resident as the Philippines (2019)

Philippines: 0.02 (2022) · Sweden: 0.63 (2022)

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

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

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, the Philippines 18

Philippines: 18 (2026 edition) · Sweden: 709 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Sweden are online, versus 67% in the Philippines

Philippines: 67% (2024) · Sweden: 96% (2025)

Home internet in Sweden is 50% faster than in the Philippines

Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026) · Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026)

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

Philippines: 94.8% (2024) · Sweden: 100% (2024)

89% of people in Sweden live in cities, versus 56% in the Philippines

Philippines: 56% (2025) · Sweden: 89% (2025)

Sweden has 141 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, the Philippines 115

Philippines: 115 (2024) · Sweden: 141 (2024)

Sweden’s railway network is 19 times as long as the Philippines’

Philippines: 509 km (2016) · Sweden: 9,714 km (2021)

Airlines from Sweden fly 5.2 times as many passengers per resident as those from the Philippines

Philippines: 0.36 (2023) · Sweden: 1.85 (2023)

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 25% of the Philippines

Philippines: 24.8% (2024) · Sweden: 68.6% (2024)

The average person in Sweden emits 2.4 times as much CO₂ as someone in the Philippines

Philippines: 1.5 t (2024) · Sweden: 3.6 t (2024)

71% of Sweden’s electricity is renewable, versus 23% in the Philippines

Philippines: 23.3% (2025) · Sweden: 71.2% (2025)

The air in the Philippines carries 4.1 times as much fine dust as in Sweden

Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024) · Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 3.8 times as likely to be murdered in the Philippines as in Sweden

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

Roads in the Philippines are 4.1 times as deadly as in Sweden

Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 22.0 °C warmer than Sweden

Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 4.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Philippines gets 3.7 times as much rain as Sweden

Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 801 mm (2016–2025 avg)