Portugal: 1,793 km (2026 edition) · Uganda: 0 km (2026 edition)

Uganda’s highest peak towers 2,759 m above Portugal’s

Portugal: 2,351 m (2026 edition) · Uganda: 5,110 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 80% of Uganda, versus 41% of Portugal

Portugal: 41.3% (2024) · Uganda: 80.3% (2024)

Uganda has 4.8 times as many people as Portugal

Portugal: 10.8 million (2025) · Uganda: 51.4 million (2025)

Uganda is 2.2 times as densely populated as Portugal

Portugal: 118 per km² (2025) · Uganda: 256 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Portugal is 30 years older than in Uganda

Portugal: 46.2 years (2023) · Uganda: 16.5 years (2023)

Women in Uganda have 2.8 more children on average than in Portugal

Portugal: 1.41 children per woman (2024) · Uganda: 4.17 children per woman (2024)

25% of people in Portugal are 65 or older, versus 2.2% in Uganda

Portugal: 24.9% (2025) · Uganda: 2.2% (2025)

Uganda hosts 5.8 times as many refugees per resident as Portugal

Portugal: 6.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Uganda: 37.7 per 1,000 (2025)

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

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

Uganda has 2 official languages, Portugal 1

Portugal: 1 (2026) · Uganda: 2 (2026)

Portugal’s economy is 5.6 times the size of Uganda’s

Portugal: $347 billion (2025) · Uganda: $62 billion (2025)

Portugal produces 15 times as much per person as Uganda

Portugal: Int$53,146 (2025) · Uganda: Int$3,488 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Uganda than in Portugal (Gini 4.3 points higher)

Portugal: 33.9 (2023) · Uganda: 38.2 (2023)

54% of people in Uganda live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.4% in Portugal

Portugal: 0.4% (2023) · Uganda: 54.4% (2023)

Unemployment is 6.2% in Portugal, versus 2.7% in Uganda

Portugal: 6.2% (2025) · Uganda: 2.7% (2025)

Uganda and Portugal are practically level

Portugal: 1.7% (2025) · Uganda: 2% (2025)

Portugal’s central government collects 22% of GDP in tax, Uganda’s 13%

Portugal: 22.3% (2024) · Uganda: 12.6% (2024)

Portugal’s price level (US = 100) is 1.7× Uganda’s

Portugal: 60% (2025) · Uganda: 35% (2025)

Portugal spends 66 times as much on health per person as Uganda

Portugal: $2,971 (2024) · Uganda: $45 (2023)

A baby in Uganda is 13 times as likely to die before turning one as in Portugal

Portugal: 2.7 per 1,000 (2024) · Uganda: 35.9 per 1,000 (2024)

Portugal has 31 times as many doctors per person as Uganda

Portugal: 5.9 per 1,000 (2022) · Uganda: 0.2 per 1,000 (2022)

Portugal: 3.5 per 1,000 (2022) · Uganda: no data

The suicide rate in Uganda is 2 times that in Portugal

Portugal: 8.6 per 100k (2023) · Uganda: 17.2 per 100k (2023)

23% of adults in Portugal are obese, versus 8.2% in Uganda

Portugal: 23% (2024) · Uganda: 8.2% (2024)

29% of adults in Portugal smoke, versus 7.5% in Uganda

Portugal: 28.6% (2024) · Uganda: 7.5% (2024)

People in Portugal rate their lives 1.54 points higher than in Uganda

Portugal: 6.03 (2025) · Uganda: 4.49 (2025)

Adults in Portugal drink 3.4 times as much alcohol as in Uganda

Portugal: 13.7 litres (2023) · Uganda: 4 litres (2023)

Portugal has 9.2 times as much meat per person as Uganda

Portugal: 99.3 kg (2023) · Uganda: 10.9 kg (2023)

Portugal has 1,175 kcal more food per person per day than Uganda

Portugal: 3,553 kcal (2023) · Uganda: 2,378 kcal (2023)

Workers in Uganda put in 393 more hours a year than in Portugal

Portugal: 1,735 hours (2023) · Uganda: 2,128 hours (2023)

Adults in Portugal went to school 3.4 years longer than in Uganda

Portugal: 9.7 years (2023) · Uganda: 6.3 years (2023)

Portugal welcomed 75 times as many tourists per resident as Uganda (2019)

Portugal: 2.71 (2024) · Uganda: 0.04 (2019)

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

Portugal: 17 (2026) · Uganda: 3 (2026)

Portugal has won 32 Olympic medals, Uganda 13

Portugal: 32 (2026 edition) · Uganda: 13 (2026 edition)

88% of people in Portugal are online, versus 8.9% in Uganda

Portugal: 88% (2024) · Uganda: 9% (2024)

Home internet in Portugal is 6.2 times as fast as in Uganda

Portugal: 330 Mbps (2026) · Uganda: 53 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Portugal have electricity, versus 55% in Uganda

Portugal: 100% (2024) · Uganda: 55.3% (2024)

61% of people in Portugal live in cities, versus 32% in Uganda

Portugal: 61% (2025) · Uganda: 32% (2025)

Portugal has 124 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Uganda 83

Portugal: 124 (2024) · Uganda: 83 (2024)

Portugal’s railway network is 2 times as long as Uganda’s

Portugal: 2,527 km (2021) · Uganda: 1,244 km (2014)

Airlines from Portugal fly 4,017 times as many passengers per resident as those from Uganda

Portugal: 1.69 (2023) · Uganda: 0.00042 (2023)

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

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

The average person in Portugal emits 27 times as much CO₂ as someone in Uganda

Portugal: 3.4 t (2024) · Uganda: 0.1 t (2024)

97% of Uganda’s electricity is renewable, versus 81% in Portugal

Portugal: 81% (2025) · Uganda: 97.1% (2024)

The air in Uganda carries 3.6 times as much fine dust as in Portugal

Portugal: 10.5 µg/m³ (2024) · Uganda: 37.3 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 12 times as likely to be murdered in Uganda as in Portugal

Portugal: 0.7 per 100k (2022) · Uganda: 9 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Uganda are 2.2 times as deadly as in Portugal

Portugal: 11 per 100k (2023) · Uganda: 24.1 per 100k (2023)

Uganda is on average 7.8 °C warmer than Portugal

Portugal: 15.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Uganda: 23.7°C (2016–2025 avg)

Uganda gets 89% more rain than Portugal

Portugal: 777 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Uganda: 1,470 mm (2016–2025 avg)