Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition) · Uganda: 0 km (2026 edition)

Uganda’s highest peak towers 2,156 m above the Philippines’

Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition) · Uganda: 5,110 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 80% of Uganda, versus 43% of the Philippines

Philippines: 42.7% (2024) · Uganda: 80.3% (2024)

The Philippines has 2.3 times as many people as Uganda

Philippines: 117 million (2025) · Uganda: 51.4 million (2025)

The Philippines is 53% more densely populated than Uganda

Philippines: 392 per km² (2025) · Uganda: 256 per km² (2025)

The typical person in the Philippines is 8.8 years older than in Uganda

Philippines: 25.3 years (2023) · Uganda: 16.5 years (2023)

Women in Uganda have 2.3 more children on average than in the Philippines

Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024) · Uganda: 4.17 children per woman (2024)

5.7% of people in the Philippines are 65 or older, versus 2.2% in Uganda

Philippines: 5.7% (2025) · Uganda: 2.2% (2025)

Uganda hosts 4,265 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025) · Uganda: 37.7 per 1,000 (2025)

The Philippines has produced 0.1 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Uganda none

Philippines: 0.1 (2026) · Uganda: 0 (2026)

The Philippines and Uganda are practically level

Philippines: 2 (2026) · Uganda: 2 (2026)

The Philippines’ economy is 7.9 times the size of Uganda’s

Philippines: $487 billion (2025) · Uganda: $62 billion (2025)

The Philippines produces 3.6 times as much per person as Uganda

Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025) · Uganda: Int$3,488 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the Philippines than in Uganda (Gini 1.1 points higher)

Philippines: 39.3 (2023) · Uganda: 38.2 (2023)

54% of people in Uganda live on less than $3 a day, versus 5.3% in the Philippines

Philippines: 5.3% (2023) · Uganda: 54.4% (2023)

Unemployment is 2.7% in Uganda, versus 2.2% in the Philippines

Philippines: 2.2% (2025) · Uganda: 2.7% (2025)

Uganda spends 2.0% of its GDP on the military, the Philippines 1.3%

Philippines: 1.3% (2025) · Uganda: 2% (2025)

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

Philippines: 14.4% (2024) · Uganda: 12.6% (2024)

Uganda’s price level (US = 100) is 1× the Philippines’

Philippines: 33% (2025) · Uganda: 35% (2025)

The Philippines spends 4.3 times as much on health per person as Uganda

Philippines: $194 (2023) · Uganda: $45 (2023)

A baby in Uganda is 65% more likely to die before turning one than in the Philippines

Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024) · Uganda: 35.9 per 1,000 (2024)

The Philippines has 4.1 times as many doctors per person as Uganda

Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021) · Uganda: 0.2 per 1,000 (2022)

Philippines: 1 per 1,000 (2021) · Uganda: no data

The suicide rate in Uganda is 5.5 times that in the Philippines

Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023) · Uganda: 17.2 per 100k (2023)

9.7% of adults in the Philippines are obese, versus 8.2% in Uganda

Philippines: 9.7% (2024) · Uganda: 8.2% (2024)

20% of adults in the Philippines smoke, versus 7.5% in Uganda

Philippines: 19.9% (2024) · Uganda: 7.5% (2024)

People in the Philippines rate their lives 1.72 points higher than in Uganda

Philippines: 6.21 (2025) · Uganda: 4.49 (2025)

Adults in the Philippines drink 51% more alcohol than in Uganda

Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023) · Uganda: 4 litres (2023)

The Philippines has 3.1 times as much meat per person as Uganda

Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023) · Uganda: 10.9 kg (2023)

The Philippines has 605 kcal more food per person per day than Uganda

Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023) · Uganda: 2,378 kcal (2023)

Workers in Uganda put in 32 more hours a year than in the Philippines

Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023) · Uganda: 2,128 hours (2023)

Adults in the Philippines went to school 3.7 years longer than in Uganda

Philippines: 10 years (2023) · Uganda: 6.3 years (2023)

Uganda welcomed 54% more tourists per resident than the Philippines (2019)

Philippines: 0.02 (2022) · Uganda: 0.04 (2019)

The Philippines has 3 more World Heritage sites than Uganda (6 against 3)

Philippines: 6 (2026) · Uganda: 3 (2026)

The Philippines has won 18 Olympic medals, Uganda 13

Philippines: 18 (2026 edition) · Uganda: 13 (2026 edition)

67% of people in the Philippines are online, versus 8.9% in Uganda

Philippines: 67% (2024) · Uganda: 9% (2024)

Home internet in the Philippines is 3.1 times as fast as in Uganda

Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026) · Uganda: 53 Mbps (2026)

95% of people in the Philippines have electricity, versus 55% in Uganda

Philippines: 94.8% (2024) · Uganda: 55.3% (2024)

56% of people in the Philippines live in cities, versus 32% in Uganda

Philippines: 56% (2025) · Uganda: 32% (2025)

The Philippines has 115 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Uganda 83

Philippines: 115 (2024) · Uganda: 83 (2024)

Uganda’s railway network is 2.4 times as long as the Philippines’

Philippines: 509 km (2016) · Uganda: 1,244 km (2014)

Airlines from the Philippines fly 843 times as many passengers per resident as those from Uganda

Philippines: 0.36 (2023) · Uganda: 0.00042 (2023)

Forest covers 25% of the Philippines, but only 12% of Uganda

Philippines: 24.8% (2024) · Uganda: 11.9% (2024)

The average person in the Philippines emits 12 times as much CO₂ as someone in Uganda

Philippines: 1.5 t (2024) · Uganda: 0.1 t (2024)

97% of Uganda’s electricity is renewable, versus 23% in the Philippines

Philippines: 23.3% (2025) · Uganda: 97.1% (2024)

The air in Uganda carries 61% more fine dust than in the Philippines

Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024) · Uganda: 37.3 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 2.1 times as likely to be murdered in Uganda as in the Philippines

Philippines: 4.3 per 100k (2023) · Uganda: 9 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Uganda are 75% deadlier than in the Philippines

Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023) · Uganda: 24.1 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 2.7 °C warmer than Uganda

Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg) · Uganda: 23.7°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Philippines gets 2 times as much rain as Uganda

Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Uganda: 1,470 mm (2016–2025 avg)