The Philippines’ coastline is 82% longer than the United States’

Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition) · United States: 19,924 km (2026 edition)

The United States’ highest peak towers 3,236 m above the Philippines’

Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition) · United States: 6,190 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 46% of the United States, versus 43% of the Philippines

Philippines: 42.7% (2024) · United States: 46.1% (2024)

The United States has 2.9 times as many people as the Philippines

Philippines: 117 million (2025) · United States: 342 million (2025)

The Philippines is 10 times as densely populated as the United States

Philippines: 392 per km² (2025) · United States: 37 per km² (2025)

The typical person in the United States is 13 years older than in the Philippines

Philippines: 25.3 years (2023) · United States: 38 years (2023)

Women in the Philippines have 0.3 more children on average than in the United States

Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024) · United States: 1.63 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in the United States are 65 or older, versus 5.7% in the Philippines

Philippines: 5.7% (2025) · United States: 18.4% (2025)

The United States hosts 152 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025) · United States: 1.3 per 1,000 (2025)

The United States has produced 8.7 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, the Philippines 0.1

Philippines: 0.1 (2026) · United States: 8.7 (2026)

The Philippines has 2 official languages, the United States 1

Philippines: 2 (2026) · United States: 1 (2026)

The United States’ economy is 63 times the size of the Philippines’

Philippines: $487 billion (2025) · United States: $30.8 trillion (2025)

The United States produces 7.2 times as much per person as the Philippines

Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025) · United States: Int$90,027 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the United States than in the Philippines (Gini 2.5 points higher)

Philippines: 39.3 (2023) · United States: 41.8 (2024)

5.3% of people in the Philippines live on less than $3 a day, versus 1.1% in the United States

Philippines: 5.3% (2023) · United States: 1.1% (2024)

Unemployment is 4.2% in the United States, versus 2.2% in the Philippines

Philippines: 2.2% (2025) · United States: 4.2% (2025)

The United States spends 3.1% of its GDP on the military, the Philippines 1.3%

Philippines: 1.3% (2025) · United States: 3.1% (2025)

The Philippines’ central government collects 14% of GDP in tax, the United States’ 11%

Philippines: 14.4% (2024) · United States: 10.8% (2024)

The United States’ price level (US = 100) is 3× the Philippines’

Philippines: 33% (2025) · United States: 100% (2025)

The United States spends 69 times as much on health per person as the Philippines

Philippines: $194 (2023) · United States: $13,473 (2023)

A baby in the Philippines is 3.9 times as likely to die before turning one as in the United States

Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024) · United States: 5.5 per 1,000 (2024)

The United States has 4.6 times as many doctors per person as the Philippines

Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021) · United States: 3.7 per 1,000 (2022)

The United States has 2.8 times as many hospital beds per person as the Philippines

Philippines: 1 per 1,000 (2021) · United States: 2.7 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in the United States is 4.3 times that in the Philippines

Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023) · United States: 13.3 per 100k (2023)

42% of adults in the United States are obese, versus 9.7% in the Philippines

Philippines: 9.7% (2024) · United States: 41.8% (2024)

20% of adults in the Philippines smoke, versus 16% in the United States

Philippines: 19.9% (2024) · United States: 15.8% (2024)

People in the United States rate their lives 0.61 points higher than in the Philippines

Philippines: 6.21 (2025) · United States: 6.82 (2025)

Adults in the United States drink 57% more alcohol than in the Philippines

Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023) · United States: 9.6 litres (2023)

The United States has 3.6 times as much meat per person as the Philippines

Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023) · United States: 122.1 kg (2023)

The United States has 964 kcal more food per person per day than the Philippines

Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023) · United States: 3,947 kcal (2023)

Workers in the Philippines put in 307 more hours a year than in the United States

Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023) · United States: 1,789 hours (2023)

Adults in the United States went to school 3.9 years longer than in the Philippines

Philippines: 10 years (2023) · United States: 13.9 years (2023)

The United States welcomed 9.1 times as many tourists per resident as the Philippines (2019)

Philippines: 0.02 (2022) · United States: 0.21 (2024)

The United States has 21 more World Heritage sites than the Philippines (27 against 6)

Philippines: 6 (2026) · United States: 27 (2026)

The United States has won 3,137 Olympic medals, the Philippines 18

Philippines: 18 (2026 edition) · United States: 3,137 (2026 edition)

95% of people in the United States are online, versus 67% in the Philippines

Philippines: 67% (2024) · United States: 95% (2024)

Home internet in the United States is 2.4 times as fast as in the Philippines

Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026) · United States: 401 Mbps (2026)

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

Philippines: 94.8% (2024) · United States: 100% (2024)

80% of people in the United States live in cities, versus 56% in the Philippines

Philippines: 56% (2025) · United States: 80% (2025)

The Philippines has 115 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, the United States 113

Philippines: 115 (2024) · United States: 113 (2024)

The United States’ railway network is 292 times as long as the Philippines’

Philippines: 509 km (2016) · United States: 148,553 km (2021)

Airlines from the United States fly 7.8 times as many passengers per resident as those from the Philippines

Philippines: 0.36 (2023) · United States: 2.75 (2023)

Forest covers 34% of the United States, but only 25% of the Philippines

Philippines: 24.8% (2024) · United States: 33.8% (2024)

The average person in the United States emits 9.4 times as much CO₂ as someone in the Philippines

Philippines: 1.5 t (2024) · United States: 14.2 t (2024)

26% of the United States’ electricity is renewable, versus 23% in the Philippines

Philippines: 23.3% (2025) · United States: 25.6% (2025)

The air in the Philippines carries 3.1 times as much fine dust as in the United States

Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024) · United States: 7.5 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 33% more likely to be murdered in the United States than in the Philippines

Philippines: 4.3 per 100k (2023) · United States: 5.8 per 100k (2023)

Roads in the United States are 91% deadlier than in the Philippines

Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023) · United States: 26.3 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 16.1 °C warmer than the United States

Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg) · United States: 10.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Philippines gets 3.5 times as much rain as the United States

Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg) · United States: 849 mm (2016–2025 avg)