Romania: 225 km (2026 edition) · Uganda: 0 km (2026 edition)

Uganda’s highest peak towers 2,566 m above Romania’s

Romania: 2,544 m (2026 edition) · Uganda: 5,110 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 80% of Uganda, versus 55% of Romania

Romania: 55.2% (2024) · Uganda: 80.3% (2024)

Uganda has 2.7 times as many people as Romania

Romania: 19 million (2025) · Uganda: 51.4 million (2025)

Uganda is 3.1 times as densely populated as Romania

Romania: 83 per km² (2025) · Uganda: 256 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Romania is 26 years older than in Uganda

Romania: 42.6 years (2023) · Uganda: 16.5 years (2023)

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

Romania: 1.39 children per woman (2024) · Uganda: 4.17 children per woman (2024)

20% of people in Romania are 65 or older, versus 2.2% in Uganda

Romania: 20.1% (2025) · Uganda: 2.2% (2025)

Uganda hosts 3.5 times as many refugees per resident as Romania

Romania: 10.9 per 1,000 (2025) · Uganda: 37.7 per 1,000 (2025)

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

Romania: 2.1 (2026) · Uganda: 0 (2026)

Uganda has 2 official languages, Romania 1

Romania: 1 (2026) · Uganda: 2 (2026)

Romania’s economy is 6.9 times the size of Uganda’s

Romania: $429 billion (2025) · Uganda: $62 billion (2025)

Romania produces 15 times as much per person as Uganda

Romania: Int$50,895 (2025) · Uganda: Int$3,488 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Uganda than in Romania (Gini 8.4 points higher)

Romania: 29.8 (2023) · Uganda: 38.2 (2023)

54% of people in Uganda live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.7% in Romania

Romania: 0.7% (2023) · Uganda: 54.4% (2023)

Unemployment is 6.0% in Romania, versus 2.7% in Uganda

Romania: 6% (2025) · Uganda: 2.7% (2025)

Romania and Uganda are practically level

Romania: 2.3% (2025) · Uganda: 2% (2025)

Romania’s central government collects 16% of GDP in tax, Uganda’s 13%

Romania: 16.2% (2024) · Uganda: 12.6% (2024)

Romania’s price level (US = 100) is 1.3× Uganda’s

Romania: 44% (2025) · Uganda: 35% (2025)

Romania spends 23 times as much on health per person as Uganda

Romania: $1,051 (2023) · Uganda: $45 (2023)

A baby in Uganda is 6 times as likely to die before turning one as in Romania

Romania: 6 per 1,000 (2024) · Uganda: 35.9 per 1,000 (2024)

Romania has 19 times as many doctors per person as Uganda

Romania: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Uganda: 0.2 per 1,000 (2022)

Romania: 7.2 per 1,000 (2022) · Uganda: no data

The suicide rate in Uganda is 2.1 times that in Romania

Romania: 8.2 per 100k (2023) · Uganda: 17.2 per 100k (2023)

38% of adults in Romania are obese, versus 8.2% in Uganda

Romania: 37.7% (2024) · Uganda: 8.2% (2024)

30% of adults in Romania smoke, versus 7.5% in Uganda

Romania: 29.7% (2024) · Uganda: 7.5% (2024)

People in Romania rate their lives 2.14 points higher than in Uganda

Romania: 6.63 (2025) · Uganda: 4.49 (2025)

Adults in Romania drink 4.2 times as much alcohol as in Uganda

Romania: 17.1 litres (2023) · Uganda: 4 litres (2023)

Romania has 6.7 times as much meat per person as Uganda

Romania: 72.5 kg (2023) · Uganda: 10.9 kg (2023)

Romania has 1,271 kcal more food per person per day than Uganda

Romania: 3,649 kcal (2023) · Uganda: 2,378 kcal (2023)

Workers in Uganda put in 302 more hours a year than in Romania

Romania: 1,826 hours (2023) · Uganda: 2,128 hours (2023)

Adults in Romania went to school 5.2 years longer than in Uganda

Romania: 11.6 years (2023) · Uganda: 6.3 years (2023)

Romania welcomed 20 times as many tourists per resident as Uganda (2019)

Romania: 0.7 (2024) · Uganda: 0.04 (2019)

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

Romania: 11 (2026) · Uganda: 3 (2026)

Romania has won 318 Olympic medals, Uganda 13

Romania: 318 (2026 edition) · Uganda: 13 (2026 edition)

91% of people in Romania are online, versus 8.9% in Uganda

Romania: 91% (2024) · Uganda: 9% (2024)

Home internet in Romania is 5.9 times as fast as in Uganda

Romania: 316 Mbps (2026) · Uganda: 53 Mbps (2026)

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

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

52% of people in Romania live in cities, versus 32% in Uganda

Romania: 52% (2025) · Uganda: 32% (2025)

Romania has 120 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Uganda 83

Romania: 120 (2024) · Uganda: 83 (2024)

Romania’s railway network is 8.7 times as long as Uganda’s

Romania: 10,769 km (2021) · Uganda: 1,244 km (2014)

Airlines from Romania fly 350 times as many passengers per resident as those from Uganda

Romania: 0.15 (2023) · Uganda: 0.00042 (2023)

Forest covers 30% of Romania, but only 12% of Uganda

Romania: 30.2% (2024) · Uganda: 11.9% (2024)

The average person in Romania emits 28 times as much CO₂ as someone in Uganda

Romania: 3.6 t (2024) · Uganda: 0.1 t (2024)

97% of Uganda’s electricity is renewable, versus 47% in Romania

Romania: 47% (2025) · Uganda: 97.1% (2024)

The air in Uganda carries 2.6 times as much fine dust as in Romania

Romania: 14.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Uganda: 37.3 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 8 times as likely to be murdered in Uganda as in Romania

Romania: 1.1 per 100k (2024) · Uganda: 9 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Uganda are 77% deadlier than in Romania

Romania: 13.6 per 100k (2023) · Uganda: 24.1 per 100k (2023)

Uganda is on average 12.7 °C warmer than Romania

Romania: 11°C (2016–2025 avg) · Uganda: 23.7°C (2016–2025 avg)

Uganda gets 94% more rain than Romania

Romania: 758 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Uganda: 1,470 mm (2016–2025 avg)