Portugal’s coastline is 34% longer than Sri Lanka’s

Portugal: 1,793 km (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 1,340 km (2026 edition)

Sri Lanka’s highest peak towers 173 m above Portugal’s

Portugal: 2,351 m (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2,524 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 49% of Sri Lanka, versus 41% of Portugal

Portugal: 41.3% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 48.8% (2024)

Sri Lanka has 2 times as many people as Portugal

Portugal: 10.8 million (2025) · Sri Lanka: 21.8 million (2025)

Sri Lanka is 3 times as densely populated as Portugal

Portugal: 118 per km² (2025) · Sri Lanka: 352 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Portugal is 13 years older than in Sri Lanka

Portugal: 46.2 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 32.8 years (2023)

Women in Sri Lanka have 0.5 more children on average than in Portugal

Portugal: 1.41 children per woman (2024) · Sri Lanka: 1.95 children per woman (2024)

25% of people in Portugal are 65 or older, versus 12% in Sri Lanka

Portugal: 24.9% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 12.5% (2025)

Portugal hosts 665 times as many refugees per resident as Sri Lanka

Portugal: 6.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 0.0098 per 1,000 (2025)

Portugal has produced 1.9 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Sri Lanka none

Portugal: 1.9 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 0 (2026)

Sri Lanka has 2 official languages, Portugal 1

Portugal: 1 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026)

Portugal’s economy is 3.2 times the size of Sri Lanka’s

Portugal: $347 billion (2025) · Sri Lanka: $109 billion (2025)

Portugal produces 3.1 times as much per person as Sri Lanka

Portugal: Int$53,146 (2025) · Sri Lanka: Int$17,065 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Sri Lanka than in Portugal (Gini 3.8 points higher)

Portugal: 33.9 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 37.7 (2019)

2.7% of people in Sri Lanka live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.4% in Portugal

Portugal: 0.4% (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2.7% (2019)

Unemployment is 6.2% in Portugal, versus 4.0% in Sri Lanka

Portugal: 6.2% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4% (2025)

Portugal and Sri Lanka are practically level

Portugal: 1.7% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 1.3% (2025)

Portugal’s central government collects 22% of GDP in tax, Sri Lanka’s 9.9%

Portugal: 22.3% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 9.9% (2023)

Portugal’s price level (US = 100) is 2.1× Sri Lanka’s

Portugal: 60% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 29% (2025)

Portugal spends 22 times as much on health per person as Sri Lanka

Portugal: $2,971 (2024) · Sri Lanka: $134 (2023)

A baby in Sri Lanka is 93% more likely to die before turning one than in Portugal

Portugal: 2.7 per 1,000 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 5.2 per 1,000 (2024)

Portugal has 5.2 times as many doctors per person as Sri Lanka

Portugal: 5.9 per 1,000 (2022) · Sri Lanka: 1.1 per 1,000 (2023)

Sri Lanka has 13% more hospital beds per person than Portugal

Portugal: 3.5 per 1,000 (2022) · Sri Lanka: 3.9 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Sri Lanka is 63% higher than in Portugal

Portugal: 8.6 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 14 per 100k (2023)

23% of adults in Portugal are obese, versus 11% in Sri Lanka

Portugal: 23% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 11.2% (2024)

29% of adults in Portugal smoke, versus 21% in Sri Lanka

Portugal: 28.6% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7% (2024)

People in Portugal rate their lives 2.02 points higher than in Sri Lanka

Portugal: 6.03 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4.01 (2025)

Adults in Portugal drink 5.5 times as much alcohol as in Sri Lanka

Portugal: 13.7 litres (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2.5 litres (2023)

Portugal has 8.6 times as much meat per person as Sri Lanka

Portugal: 99.3 kg (2023) · Sri Lanka: 11.6 kg (2023)

Portugal has 878 kcal more food per person per day than Sri Lanka

Portugal: 3,553 kcal (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,675 kcal (2023)

Workers in Sri Lanka put in 318 more hours a year than in Portugal

Portugal: 1,735 hours (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,053 hours (2023)

Adults in Sri Lanka went to school 1.1 years longer than in Portugal

Portugal: 9.7 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 10.8 years (2023)

Portugal welcomed 83 times as many tourists per resident as Sri Lanka (2019)

Portugal: 2.71 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 0.03 (2022)

Portugal has 9 more World Heritage sites than Sri Lanka (17 against 8)

Portugal: 17 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 8 (2026)

Portugal has won 32 Olympic medals, Sri Lanka 2

Portugal: 32 (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026 edition)

88% of people in Portugal are online, versus 55% in Sri Lanka

Portugal: 88% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 55% (2024)

Home internet in Portugal is 5.3 times as fast as in Sri Lanka

Portugal: 330 Mbps (2026) · Sri Lanka: 63 Mbps (2026)

Portugal and Sri Lanka are practically level

Portugal: 100% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 100% (2024)

61% of people in Portugal live in cities, versus 20% in Sri Lanka

Portugal: 61% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 20% (2025)

Sri Lanka has 133 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Portugal 124

Portugal: 124 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 133 (2024)

Portugal’s railway network is 62% longer than Sri Lanka’s

Portugal: 2,527 km (2021) · Sri Lanka: 1,562 km (2019)

Airlines from Portugal fly 9.5 times as many passengers per resident as those from Sri Lanka

Portugal: 1.69 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 0.18 (2023)

Forest covers 37% of Portugal, but only 34% of Sri Lanka

Portugal: 36.6% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 34.4% (2024)

The average person in Portugal emits 3.8 times as much CO₂ as someone in Sri Lanka

Portugal: 3.4 t (2024) · Sri Lanka: 0.9 t (2024)

81% of Portugal’s electricity is renewable, versus 62% in Sri Lanka

Portugal: 81% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 61.6% (2025)

The air in Sri Lanka carries 2 times as much fine dust as in Portugal

Portugal: 10.5 µg/m³ (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 4.6 times as likely to be murdered in Sri Lanka as in Portugal

Portugal: 0.7 per 100k (2022) · Sri Lanka: 3.3 per 100k (2019)

Roads in Sri Lanka are 92% deadlier than in Portugal

Portugal: 11 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 21.1 per 100k (2023)

Sri Lanka is on average 11.0 °C warmer than Portugal

Portugal: 15.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Sri Lanka gets 2.4 times as much rain as Portugal

Portugal: 777 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 1,839 mm (2016–2025 avg)