Saudi Arabia: 2,640 km (2026 edition) · South Sudan: 0 km (2026 edition)

South Sudan’s highest peak towers 187 m above Saudi Arabia’s

Saudi Arabia: 3,000 m (2026 edition) · South Sudan: 3,187 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 82% of Saudi Arabia, versus 45% of South Sudan

Saudi Arabia: 81.7% (2024) · South Sudan: 44.7% (2024)

Saudi Arabia has 3 times as many people as South Sudan

Saudi Arabia: 37 million (2025) · South Sudan: 12.2 million (2025)

South Sudan is 12% more densely populated than Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 17 per km² (2025) · South Sudan: 19 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Saudi Arabia is 11 years older than in South Sudan

Saudi Arabia: 29.2 years (2023) · South Sudan: 18 years (2023)

Women in South Sudan have 1.5 more children on average than in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 2.31 children per woman (2024) · South Sudan: 3.79 children per woman (2024)

South Sudan and Saudi Arabia are practically level

Saudi Arabia: 3.1% (2025) · South Sudan: 3.1% (2025)

South Sudan hosts 4,075 times as many refugees per resident as Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 0.012 per 1,000 (2025) · South Sudan: 49.4 per 1,000 (2025)

Saudi Arabia and South Sudan are practically level

Saudi Arabia: 0 (2026) · South Sudan: 0 (2026)

Saudi Arabia and South Sudan are practically level

Saudi Arabia: 1 (2026) · South Sudan: 1 (2026)

Saudi Arabia’s economy is 106 times the size of South Sudan’s

Saudi Arabia: $1.28 trillion (2025) · South Sudan: $12 billion (2015)

Saudi Arabia produces 64 times as much per person as South Sudan

Saudi Arabia: Int$73,784 (2025) · South Sudan: Int$1,155 (2015)

Saudi Arabia: no data · South Sudan: 44 (2016)

Unemployment is 12% in South Sudan, versus 3.0% in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 3% (2025) · South Sudan: 12.4% (2023)

Saudi Arabia spends 6.5% of its GDP on the military, South Sudan 3.4%

Saudi Arabia: 6.5% (2025) · South Sudan: 3.4% (2025)

Saudi Arabia: 8.1% (2024) · South Sudan: no data

South Sudan’s price level (US = 100) is 2× Saudi Arabia’s

Saudi Arabia: 47% (2025) · South Sudan: 94% (2015)

Saudi Arabia spends 25 times as much on health per person as South Sudan

Saudi Arabia: $1,825 (2023) · South Sudan: $73 (2023)

A baby in South Sudan is 15 times as likely to die before turning one as in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 4.7 per 1,000 (2024) · South Sudan: 71.9 per 1,000 (2024)

Saudi Arabia has 83 times as many doctors per person as South Sudan

Saudi Arabia: 3.4 per 1,000 (2023) · South Sudan: 0.041 per 1,000 (2022)

Saudi Arabia: 2.4 per 1,000 (2023) · South Sudan: no data

The suicide rate in South Sudan is 7.4 times that in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 2.2 per 100k (2023) · South Sudan: 16.2 per 100k (2023)

39% of adults in Saudi Arabia are obese, versus 8.2% in South Sudan

Saudi Arabia: 39.2% (2024) · South Sudan: 8.2% (2024)

Saudi Arabia: 14.7% (2024) · South Sudan: no data

People in Saudi Arabia rate their lives 4.00 points higher than in South Sudan

Saudi Arabia: 6.82 (2025) · South Sudan: 2.82 (2019)

Saudi Arabia: no data · South Sudan: 0.4 litres (2023)

Saudi Arabia has 2.7 times as much meat per person as South Sudan

Saudi Arabia: 58.1 kg (2023) · South Sudan: 21.4 kg (2022)

Saudi Arabia has 1,269 kcal more food per person per day than South Sudan

Saudi Arabia: 3,660 kcal (2023) · South Sudan: 2,391 kcal (2022)

Saudi Arabia: 2,125 hours (2023) · South Sudan: no data

Adults in Saudi Arabia went to school 5.9 years longer than in South Sudan

Saudi Arabia: 11.6 years (2023) · South Sudan: 5.7 years (2023)

Saudi Arabia: 0.84 (2024) · South Sudan: no data

Saudi Arabia has 7 more World Heritage sites than South Sudan (8 against 1)

Saudi Arabia: 8 (2026) · South Sudan: 1 (2026)

Saudi Arabia: 4 (2026 edition) · South Sudan: no data

100% of people in Saudi Arabia are online, versus 6.7% in South Sudan

Saudi Arabia: 100% (2024) · South Sudan: 7% (2019)

Home internet in Saudi Arabia is 4.5 times as fast as in South Sudan

Saudi Arabia: 196 Mbps (2026) · South Sudan: 44 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Saudi Arabia have electricity, versus 5.4% in South Sudan

Saudi Arabia: 100% (2024) · South Sudan: 5.4% (2024)

85% of people in Saudi Arabia live in cities, versus 22% in South Sudan

Saudi Arabia: 85% (2025) · South Sudan: 22% (2025)

Saudi Arabia has 160 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, South Sudan 47

Saudi Arabia: 160 (2024) · South Sudan: 47 (2023)

Saudi Arabia’s railway network is 12 times as long as South Sudan’s

Saudi Arabia: 2,939 km (2018) · South Sudan: 248 km (2018)

Saudi Arabia: 1.3 (2023) · South Sudan: no data

Forest covers 11% of South Sudan, but only 1.3% of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 1.3% (2024) · South Sudan: 11.3% (2024)

The average person in Saudi Arabia emits 144 times as much CO₂ as someone in South Sudan

Saudi Arabia: 20.4 t (2024) · South Sudan: 0.1 t (2024)

Saudi Arabia and South Sudan are practically level

Saudi Arabia: 2.2% (2024) · South Sudan: 1.8% (2024)

The air in Saudi Arabia carries 2.1 times as much fine dust as in South Sudan

Saudi Arabia: 50.4 µg/m³ (2024) · South Sudan: 24.1 µg/m³ (2024)

Saudi Arabia: 0.9 per 100k (2019) · South Sudan: no data

Roads in South Sudan are 40% deadlier than in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 21.4 per 100k (2023) · South Sudan: 29.9 per 100k (2023)

South Sudan is on average 1.8 °C warmer than Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · South Sudan: 28.6°C (2016–2025 avg)

South Sudan gets 13 times as much rain as Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 61 mm (2016–2025 avg) · South Sudan: 785 mm (2016–2025 avg)