Sweden’s coastline is 22% longer than Saudi Arabia’s

Saudi Arabia: 2,640 km (2026 edition) · Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition)

Saudi Arabia’s highest peak towers 900 m above Sweden’s

Saudi Arabia: 3,000 m (2026 edition) · Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 82% of Saudi Arabia, versus 7.3% of Sweden

Saudi Arabia: 81.7% (2024) · Sweden: 7.3% (2024)

Saudi Arabia has 3.5 times as many people as Sweden

Saudi Arabia: 37 million (2025) · Sweden: 10.6 million (2025)

Sweden is 51% more densely populated than Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 17 per km² (2025) · Sweden: 26 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sweden is 11 years older than in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 29.2 years (2023) · Sweden: 39.9 years (2023)

Women in Saudi Arabia have 0.9 more children on average than in Sweden

Saudi Arabia: 2.31 children per woman (2024) · Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Sweden are 65 or older, versus 3.1% in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 3.1% (2025) · Sweden: 20.9% (2025)

Sweden hosts 1,122 times as many refugees per resident as Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 0.012 per 1,000 (2025) · Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Sweden has produced 28.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Saudi Arabia none

Saudi Arabia: 0 (2026) · Sweden: 28.3 (2026)

Saudi Arabia and Sweden are practically level

Saudi Arabia: 1 (2026) · Sweden: 1 (2026)

Saudi Arabia’s economy is 91% larger than Sweden’s

Saudi Arabia: $1.28 trillion (2025) · Sweden: $669 billion (2025)

Saudi Arabia produces 2% more per person than Sweden

Saudi Arabia: Int$73,784 (2025) · Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025)

Saudi Arabia: no data · Sweden: 29.3 (2023)

Saudi Arabia: no data · Sweden: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.7% in Sweden, versus 3.0% in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 3% (2025) · Sweden: 8.7% (2025)

Saudi Arabia spends 6.5% of its GDP on the military, Sweden 2.5%

Saudi Arabia: 6.5% (2025) · Sweden: 2.5% (2025)

Sweden’s central government collects 27% of GDP in tax, Saudi Arabia’s 8.1%

Saudi Arabia: 8.1% (2024) · Sweden: 27.2% (2024)

Sweden’s price level (US = 100) is 1.9× Saudi Arabia’s

Saudi Arabia: 47% (2025) · Sweden: 87% (2025)

Sweden spends 3.6 times as much on health per person as Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: $1,825 (2023) · Sweden: $6,485 (2024)

A baby in Saudi Arabia is 2.4 times as likely to die before turning one as in Sweden

Saudi Arabia: 4.7 per 1,000 (2024) · Sweden: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Sweden has 29% more doctors per person than Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 3.4 per 1,000 (2023) · Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021)

Saudi Arabia has 27% more hospital beds per person than Sweden

Saudi Arabia: 2.4 per 1,000 (2023) · Sweden: 1.9 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Sweden is 5.8 times that in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 2.2 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023)

39% of adults in Saudi Arabia are obese, versus 19% in Sweden

Saudi Arabia: 39.2% (2024) · Sweden: 18.7% (2024)

20% of adults in Sweden smoke, versus 15% in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 14.7% (2024) · Sweden: 20.3% (2024)

People in Sweden rate their lives 0.44 points higher than in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 6.82 (2025) · Sweden: 7.26 (2025)

Saudi Arabia: no data · Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023)

Sweden has 18% more meat per person than Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 58.1 kg (2023) · Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023)

Saudi Arabia has 293 kcal more food per person per day than Sweden

Saudi Arabia: 3,660 kcal (2023) · Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023)

Workers in Saudi Arabia put in 693 more hours a year than in Sweden

Saudi Arabia: 2,125 hours (2023) · Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023)

Adults in Sweden went to school 1.1 years longer than in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 11.6 years (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 years (2023)

Saudi Arabia welcomed 33% more tourists per resident than Sweden (2019)

Saudi Arabia: 0.84 (2024) · Sweden: 0.63 (2022)

Sweden has 7 more World Heritage sites than Saudi Arabia (15 against 8)

Saudi Arabia: 8 (2026) · Sweden: 15 (2026)

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, Saudi Arabia 4

Saudi Arabia: 4 (2026 edition) · Sweden: 709 (2026 edition)

100% of people in Saudi Arabia are online, versus 96% in Sweden

Saudi Arabia: 100% (2024) · Sweden: 96% (2025)

Home internet in Sweden is 27% faster than in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 196 Mbps (2026) · Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026)

Saudi Arabia and Sweden are practically level

Saudi Arabia: 100% (2024) · Sweden: 100% (2024)

89% of people in Sweden live in cities, versus 85% in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 85% (2025) · Sweden: 89% (2025)

Saudi Arabia has 160 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Sweden 141

Saudi Arabia: 160 (2024) · Sweden: 141 (2024)

Sweden’s railway network is 3.3 times as long as Saudi Arabia’s

Saudi Arabia: 2,939 km (2018) · Sweden: 9,714 km (2021)

Airlines from Sweden fly 42% more passengers per resident than those from Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 1.3 (2023) · Sweden: 1.85 (2023)

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 1.3% of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 1.3% (2024) · Sweden: 68.6% (2024)

The average person in Saudi Arabia emits 5.7 times as much CO₂ as someone in Sweden

Saudi Arabia: 20.4 t (2024) · Sweden: 3.6 t (2024)

71% of Sweden’s electricity is renewable, versus 2.2% in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 2.2% (2024) · Sweden: 71.2% (2025)

The air in Saudi Arabia carries 8.8 times as much fine dust as in Sweden

Saudi Arabia: 50.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 23% more likely to be murdered in Sweden than in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 0.9 per 100k (2019) · Sweden: 1.1 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Saudi Arabia are 6.3 times as deadly as in Sweden

Saudi Arabia: 21.4 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023)

Saudi Arabia is on average 22.5 °C warmer than Sweden

Saudi Arabia: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 4.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Sweden gets 13 times as much rain as Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 61 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 801 mm (2016–2025 avg)