Sri Lanka’s coastline is 6 times as long as Romania’s

Romania: 225 km (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 1,340 km (2026 edition)

Romania’s highest peak towers 20 m above Sri Lanka’s

Romania: 2,544 m (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2,524 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 55% of Romania, versus 49% of Sri Lanka

Romania: 55.2% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 48.8% (2024)

Sri Lanka has 14% more people than Romania

Romania: 19 million (2025) · Sri Lanka: 21.8 million (2025)

Sri Lanka is 4.3 times as densely populated as Romania

Romania: 83 per km² (2025) · Sri Lanka: 352 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Romania is 9.8 years older than in Sri Lanka

Romania: 42.6 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 32.8 years (2023)

Women in Sri Lanka have 0.6 more children on average than in Romania

Romania: 1.39 children per woman (2024) · Sri Lanka: 1.95 children per woman (2024)

20% of people in Romania are 65 or older, versus 12% in Sri Lanka

Romania: 20.1% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 12.5% (2025)

Romania hosts 1,110 times as many refugees per resident as Sri Lanka

Romania: 10.9 per 1,000 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 0.0098 per 1,000 (2025)

Romania has produced 2.1 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Sri Lanka none

Romania: 2.1 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 0 (2026)

Sri Lanka has 2 official languages, Romania 1

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

Romania’s economy is 3.9 times the size of Sri Lanka’s

Romania: $429 billion (2025) · Sri Lanka: $109 billion (2025)

Romania produces 3 times as much per person as Sri Lanka

Romania: Int$50,895 (2025) · Sri Lanka: Int$17,065 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Sri Lanka than in Romania (Gini 7.9 points higher)

Romania: 29.8 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 37.7 (2019)

2.7% of people in Sri Lanka live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.7% in Romania

Romania: 0.7% (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2.7% (2019)

Unemployment is 6.0% in Romania, versus 4.0% in Sri Lanka

Romania: 6% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4% (2025)

Romania spends 2.3% of its GDP on the military, Sri Lanka 1.3%

Romania: 2.3% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 1.3% (2025)

Romania’s central government collects 16% of GDP in tax, Sri Lanka’s 9.9%

Romania: 16.2% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 9.9% (2023)

Romania’s price level (US = 100) is 1.5× Sri Lanka’s

Romania: 44% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 29% (2025)

Romania spends 7.8 times as much on health per person as Sri Lanka

Romania: $1,051 (2023) · Sri Lanka: $134 (2023)

A baby in Romania is 15% more likely to die before turning one than in Sri Lanka

Romania: 6 per 1,000 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 5.2 per 1,000 (2024)

Romania has 3.2 times as many doctors per person as Sri Lanka

Romania: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Sri Lanka: 1.1 per 1,000 (2023)

Romania has 84% more hospital beds per person than Sri Lanka

Romania: 7.2 per 1,000 (2022) · Sri Lanka: 3.9 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Sri Lanka is 71% higher than in Romania

Romania: 8.2 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 14 per 100k (2023)

38% of adults in Romania are obese, versus 11% in Sri Lanka

Romania: 37.7% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 11.2% (2024)

30% of adults in Romania smoke, versus 21% in Sri Lanka

Romania: 29.7% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7% (2024)

People in Romania rate their lives 2.62 points higher than in Sri Lanka

Romania: 6.63 (2025) · Sri Lanka: 4.01 (2025)

Adults in Romania drink 6.8 times as much alcohol as in Sri Lanka

Romania: 17.1 litres (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2.5 litres (2023)

Romania has 6.3 times as much meat per person as Sri Lanka

Romania: 72.5 kg (2023) · Sri Lanka: 11.6 kg (2023)

Romania has 974 kcal more food per person per day than Sri Lanka

Romania: 3,649 kcal (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,675 kcal (2023)

Workers in Sri Lanka put in 227 more hours a year than in Romania

Romania: 1,826 hours (2023) · Sri Lanka: 2,053 hours (2023)

Adults in Romania went to school 0.78 years longer than in Sri Lanka

Romania: 11.6 years (2023) · Sri Lanka: 10.8 years (2023)

Romania welcomed 22 times as many tourists per resident as Sri Lanka (2019)

Romania: 0.7 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 0.03 (2022)

Romania has 3 more World Heritage sites than Sri Lanka (11 against 8)

Romania: 11 (2026) · Sri Lanka: 8 (2026)

Romania has won 318 Olympic medals, Sri Lanka 2

Romania: 318 (2026 edition) · Sri Lanka: 2 (2026 edition)

91% of people in Romania are online, versus 55% in Sri Lanka

Romania: 91% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 55% (2024)

Home internet in Romania is 5.1 times as fast as in Sri Lanka

Romania: 316 Mbps (2026) · Sri Lanka: 63 Mbps (2026)

Romania and Sri Lanka are practically level

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

52% of people in Romania live in cities, versus 20% in Sri Lanka

Romania: 52% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 20% (2025)

Sri Lanka has 133 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Romania 120

Romania: 120 (2024) · Sri Lanka: 133 (2024)

Romania’s railway network is 6.9 times as long as Sri Lanka’s

Romania: 10,769 km (2021) · Sri Lanka: 1,562 km (2019)

Airlines from Sri Lanka fly 20% more passengers per resident than those from Romania

Romania: 0.15 (2023) · Sri Lanka: 0.18 (2023)

Forest covers 34% of Sri Lanka, but only 30% of Romania

Romania: 30.2% (2024) · Sri Lanka: 34.4% (2024)

The average person in Romania emits 4 times as much CO₂ as someone in Sri Lanka

Romania: 3.6 t (2024) · Sri Lanka: 0.9 t (2024)

62% of Sri Lanka’s electricity is renewable, versus 47% in Romania

Romania: 47% (2025) · Sri Lanka: 61.6% (2025)

The air in Sri Lanka carries 45% more fine dust than in Romania

Romania: 14.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Sri Lanka: 20.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 3 times as likely to be murdered in Sri Lanka as in Romania

Romania: 1.1 per 100k (2024) · Sri Lanka: 3.3 per 100k (2019)

Roads in Sri Lanka are 55% deadlier than in Romania

Romania: 13.6 per 100k (2023) · Sri Lanka: 21.1 per 100k (2023)

Sri Lanka is on average 15.9 °C warmer than Romania

Romania: 11°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Sri Lanka gets 2.4 times as much rain as Romania

Romania: 758 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sri Lanka: 1,839 mm (2016–2025 avg)