Portugal’s coastline is 26% longer than Tanzania’s

Portugal: 1,793 km (2026 edition) · Tanzania: 1,424 km (2026 edition)

Tanzania’s highest peak towers 3,544 m above Portugal’s

Portugal: 2,351 m (2026 edition) · Tanzania: 5,895 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 45% of Tanzania, versus 41% of Portugal

Portugal: 41.3% (2024) · Tanzania: 45.1% (2024)

Tanzania has 6.5 times as many people as Portugal

Portugal: 10.8 million (2025) · Tanzania: 70.5 million (2025)

Portugal is 48% more densely populated than Tanzania

Portugal: 118 per km² (2025) · Tanzania: 80 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Portugal is 29 years older than in Tanzania

Portugal: 46.2 years (2023) · Tanzania: 17.2 years (2023)

Women in Tanzania have 3.1 more children on average than in Portugal

Portugal: 1.41 children per woman (2024) · Tanzania: 4.54 children per woman (2024)

25% of people in Portugal are 65 or older, versus 3.0% in Tanzania

Portugal: 24.9% (2025) · Tanzania: 3% (2025)

Portugal hosts 2.7 times as many refugees per resident as Tanzania

Portugal: 6.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Tanzania: 2.4 per 1,000 (2025)

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

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

Tanzania has 2 official languages, Portugal 1

Portugal: 1 (2026) · Tanzania: 2 (2026)

Portugal’s economy is 3.8 times the size of Tanzania’s

Portugal: $347 billion (2025) · Tanzania: $90.1 billion (2025)

Portugal produces 12 times as much per person as Tanzania

Portugal: Int$53,146 (2025) · Tanzania: Int$4,471 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Tanzania than in Portugal (Gini 6.6 points higher)

Portugal: 33.9 (2023) · Tanzania: 40.5 (2018)

51% of people in Tanzania live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.4% in Portugal

Portugal: 0.4% (2023) · Tanzania: 51.3% (2018)

Unemployment is 6.2% in Portugal, versus 1.6% in Tanzania

Portugal: 6.2% (2025) · Tanzania: 1.6% (2025)

Portugal spends 1.7% of its GDP on the military, Tanzania 1.2%

Portugal: 1.7% (2025) · Tanzania: 1.2% (2025)

Portugal’s central government collects 22% of GDP in tax, Tanzania’s 12%

Portugal: 22.3% (2024) · Tanzania: 12.3% (2024)

Portugal’s price level (US = 100) is 2× Tanzania’s

Portugal: 60% (2025) · Tanzania: 29% (2025)

Portugal spends 82 times as much on health per person as Tanzania

Portugal: $2,971 (2024) · Tanzania: $36 (2023)

A baby in Tanzania is 11 times as likely to die before turning one as in Portugal

Portugal: 2.7 per 1,000 (2024) · Tanzania: 28.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Portugal has 44 times as many doctors per person as Tanzania

Portugal: 5.9 per 1,000 (2022) · Tanzania: 0.1 per 1,000 (2022)

Portugal has 4.1 times as many hospital beds per person as Tanzania

Portugal: 3.5 per 1,000 (2022) · Tanzania: 0.8 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Tanzania is 73% higher than in Portugal

Portugal: 8.6 per 100k (2023) · Tanzania: 14.9 per 100k (2023)

23% of adults in Portugal are obese, versus 10% in Tanzania

Portugal: 23% (2024) · Tanzania: 10.5% (2024)

29% of adults in Portugal smoke, versus 7.7% in Tanzania

Portugal: 28.6% (2024) · Tanzania: 7.7% (2024)

People in Portugal rate their lives 2.13 points higher than in Tanzania

Portugal: 6.03 (2025) · Tanzania: 3.90 (2025)

Adults in Portugal drink 9.2 times as much alcohol as in Tanzania

Portugal: 13.7 litres (2023) · Tanzania: 1.5 litres (2023)

Portugal has 8.2 times as much meat per person as Tanzania

Portugal: 99.3 kg (2023) · Tanzania: 12.2 kg (2023)

Portugal has 1,035 kcal more food per person per day than Tanzania

Portugal: 3,553 kcal (2023) · Tanzania: 2,518 kcal (2023)

Workers in Tanzania put in 394 more hours a year than in Portugal

Portugal: 1,735 hours (2023) · Tanzania: 2,129 hours (2023)

Adults in Portugal went to school 3.6 years longer than in Tanzania

Portugal: 9.7 years (2023) · Tanzania: 6.1 years (2023)

Portugal welcomed 120 times as many tourists per resident as Tanzania (2019)

Portugal: 2.71 (2024) · Tanzania: 0.02 (2022)

Portugal has 10 more World Heritage sites than Tanzania (17 against 7)

Portugal: 17 (2026) · Tanzania: 7 (2026)

Portugal has won 32 Olympic medals, Tanzania 2

Portugal: 32 (2026 edition) · Tanzania: 2 (2026 edition)

88% of people in Portugal are online, versus 31% in Tanzania

Portugal: 88% (2024) · Tanzania: 31% (2024)

Home internet in Portugal is 5.9 times as fast as in Tanzania

Portugal: 330 Mbps (2026) · Tanzania: 56 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Portugal have electricity, versus 52% in Tanzania

Portugal: 100% (2024) · Tanzania: 52.4% (2024)

61% of people in Portugal live in cities, versus 37% in Tanzania

Portugal: 61% (2025) · Tanzania: 37% (2025)

Tanzania has 127 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Portugal 124

Portugal: 124 (2024) · Tanzania: 127 (2024)

Tanzania’s railway network is 7% longer than Portugal’s

Portugal: 2,527 km (2021) · Tanzania: 2,701 km (2017)

Airlines from Portugal fly 62 times as many passengers per resident as those from Tanzania

Portugal: 1.69 (2023) · Tanzania: 0.03 (2023)

Forest covers 50% of Tanzania, but only 37% of Portugal

Portugal: 36.6% (2024) · Tanzania: 49.6% (2024)

The average person in Portugal emits 12 times as much CO₂ as someone in Tanzania

Portugal: 3.4 t (2024) · Tanzania: 0.3 t (2024)

81% of Portugal’s electricity is renewable, versus 33% in Tanzania

Portugal: 81% (2025) · Tanzania: 32.9% (2024)

The air in Tanzania carries 2.3 times as much fine dust as in Portugal

Portugal: 10.5 µg/m³ (2024) · Tanzania: 24.6 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 5.2 times as likely to be murdered in Tanzania as in Portugal

Portugal: 0.7 per 100k (2022) · Tanzania: 3.7 per 100k (2020)

Roads in Tanzania are 83% deadlier than in Portugal

Portugal: 11 per 100k (2023) · Tanzania: 20.1 per 100k (2023)

Tanzania is on average 7.3 °C warmer than Portugal

Portugal: 15.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Tanzania: 23.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

Tanzania gets 42% more rain than Portugal

Portugal: 777 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Tanzania: 1,102 mm (2016–2025 avg)