Portugal’s coastline is 2.1 times as long as Sudan’s

Portugal: 1,793 km (2026 edition) · Sudan: 853 km (2026 edition)

Sudan’s highest peak towers 691 m above Portugal’s

Portugal: 2,351 m (2026 edition) · Sudan: 3,042 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 60% of Sudan, versus 41% of Portugal

Portugal: 41.3% (2024) · Sudan: 60.3% (2024)

Sudan has 4.8 times as many people as Portugal

Portugal: 10.8 million (2025) · Sudan: 51.7 million (2025)

Portugal is 4.3 times as densely populated as Sudan

Portugal: 118 per km² (2025) · Sudan: 28 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Portugal is 28 years older than in Sudan

Portugal: 46.2 years (2023) · Sudan: 18.3 years (2023)

Women in Sudan have 2.9 more children on average than in Portugal

Portugal: 1.41 children per woman (2024) · Sudan: 4.26 children per woman (2024)

25% of people in Portugal are 65 or older, versus 3.4% in Sudan

Portugal: 24.9% (2025) · Sudan: 3.4% (2025)

Sudan hosts 2.4 times as many refugees per resident as Portugal

Portugal: 6.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Sudan: 15.7 per 1,000 (2025)

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

Portugal: 1.9 (2026) · Sudan: 0 (2026)

Sudan has 2 official languages, Portugal 1

Portugal: 1 (2026) · Sudan: 2 (2026)

Portugal’s economy is 5.8 times the size of Sudan’s

Portugal: $347 billion (2025) · Sudan: $60.2 billion (2025)

Portugal produces 24 times as much per person as Sudan

Portugal: Int$53,146 (2025) · Sudan: Int$2,192 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Sudan than in Portugal (Gini 0.3 points higher)

Portugal: 33.9 (2023) · Sudan: 34.2 (2014)

Portugal: 0.4% (2023) · Sudan: no data

Unemployment is 7.5% in Sudan, versus 6.2% in Portugal

Portugal: 6.2% (2025) · Sudan: 7.5% (2022)

Portugal spends 1.7% of its GDP on the military, Sudan 0.9%

Portugal: 1.7% (2025) · Sudan: 0.9% (2021)

Portugal’s central government collects 22% of GDP in tax, Sudan’s 7.4%

Portugal: 22.3% (2024) · Sudan: 7.4% (2016)

Portugal’s price level (US = 100) is 1.1× Sudan’s

Portugal: 60% (2025) · Sudan: 53% (2025)

Portugal spends 141 times as much on health per person as Sudan

Portugal: $2,971 (2024) · Sudan: $21 (2023)

A baby in Sudan is 16 times as likely to die before turning one as in Portugal

Portugal: 2.7 per 1,000 (2024) · Sudan: 42.9 per 1,000 (2024)

Portugal has 23 times as many doctors per person as Sudan

Portugal: 5.9 per 1,000 (2022) · Sudan: 0.3 per 1,000 (2017)

Portugal has 5.3 times as many hospital beds per person as Sudan

Portugal: 3.5 per 1,000 (2022) · Sudan: 0.7 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in Portugal is 2.3 times that in Sudan

Portugal: 8.6 per 100k (2023) · Sudan: 3.7 per 100k (2023)

23% of adults in Portugal are obese, versus 16% in Sudan

Portugal: 23% (2024) · Sudan: 16.1% (2024)

Portugal: 28.6% (2024) · Sudan: no data

People in Portugal rate their lives 1.89 points higher than in Sudan

Portugal: 6.03 (2025) · Sudan: 4.14 (2017)

Adults in Portugal drink 9.8 times as much alcohol as in Sudan

Portugal: 13.7 litres (2023) · Sudan: 1.4 litres (2023)

Portugal has 5.4 times as much meat per person as Sudan

Portugal: 99.3 kg (2023) · Sudan: 18.4 kg (2022)

Portugal has 1,039 kcal more food per person per day than Sudan

Portugal: 3,553 kcal (2023) · Sudan: 2,513 kcal (2022)

Workers in Sudan put in 923 more hours a year than in Portugal

Portugal: 1,735 hours (2023) · Sudan: 2,658 hours (2023)

Adults in Portugal went to school 5.7 years longer than in Sudan

Portugal: 9.7 years (2023) · Sudan: 4 years (2023)

Portugal welcomed 143 times as many tourists per resident as Sudan (2019)

Portugal: 2.71 (2024) · Sudan: 0.02 (2018)

Portugal has 14 more World Heritage sites than Sudan (17 against 3)

Portugal: 17 (2026) · Sudan: 3 (2026)

Portugal has won 32 Olympic medals, Sudan 1

Portugal: 32 (2026 edition) · Sudan: 1 (2026 edition)

88% of people in Portugal are online, versus 19% in Sudan

Portugal: 88% (2024) · Sudan: 19% (2017)

Home internet in Portugal is 4.2 times as fast as in Sudan

Portugal: 330 Mbps (2026) · Sudan: 79 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Portugal have electricity, versus 66% in Sudan

Portugal: 100% (2024) · Sudan: 66% (2024)

61% of people in Portugal live in cities, versus 35% in Sudan

Portugal: 61% (2025) · Sudan: 35% (2025)

Portugal has 124 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Sudan 70

Portugal: 124 (2024) · Sudan: 70 (2022)

Sudan’s railway network is 9% longer than Portugal’s

Portugal: 2,527 km (2021) · Sudan: 2,747 km (2020)

Airlines from Portugal fly 96 times as many passengers per resident as those from Sudan

Portugal: 1.69 (2023) · Sudan: 0.02 (2023)

Forest covers 37% of Portugal, but only 12% of Sudan

Portugal: 36.6% (2024) · Sudan: 11.9% (2024)

The average person in Portugal emits 9.7 times as much CO₂ as someone in Sudan

Portugal: 3.4 t (2024) · Sudan: 0.4 t (2024)

81% of Portugal’s electricity is renewable, versus 80% in Sudan

Portugal: 81% (2025) · Sudan: 79.7% (2024)

The air in Sudan carries 2.7 times as much fine dust as in Portugal

Portugal: 10.5 µg/m³ (2024) · Sudan: 28.8 µg/m³ (2024)

Portugal: 0.7 per 100k (2022) · Sudan: no data

Roads in Sudan are 2.6 times as deadly as in Portugal

Portugal: 11 per 100k (2023) · Sudan: 28.2 per 100k (2023)

Sudan is on average 11.8 °C warmer than Portugal

Portugal: 15.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sudan: 27.7°C (2016–2025 avg)

Portugal gets 4.6 times as much rain as Sudan

Portugal: 777 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sudan: 171 mm (2016–2025 avg)