Vietnam’s coastline is 30% longer than Saudi Arabia’s

Saudi Arabia: 2,640 km (2026 edition) · Vietnam: 3,444 km (2026 edition)

Vietnam’s highest peak towers 144 m above Saudi Arabia’s

Saudi Arabia: 3,000 m (2026 edition) · Vietnam: 3,144 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 82% of Saudi Arabia, versus 39% of Vietnam

Saudi Arabia: 81.7% (2024) · Vietnam: 39.2% (2024)

Vietnam has 2.7 times as many people as Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 37 million (2025) · Vietnam: 102 million (2025)

Vietnam is 19 times as densely populated as Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 17 per km² (2025) · Vietnam: 324 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Vietnam is 3.2 years older than in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 29.2 years (2023) · Vietnam: 32.4 years (2023)

Women in Saudi Arabia have 0.4 more children on average than in Vietnam

Saudi Arabia: 2.31 children per woman (2024) · Vietnam: 1.9 children per woman (2024)

9.5% of people in Vietnam are 65 or older, versus 3.1% in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 3.1% (2025) · Vietnam: 9.5% (2025)

Saudi Arabia hosts 95 times as many refugees per resident as Vietnam

Saudi Arabia: 0.012 per 1,000 (2025) · Vietnam: 0.00013 per 1,000 (2025)

Vietnam has produced 0.1 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Saudi Arabia none

Saudi Arabia: 0 (2026) · Vietnam: 0.1 (2026)

Saudi Arabia and Vietnam are practically level

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

Saudi Arabia’s economy is 2.5 times the size of Vietnam’s

Saudi Arabia: $1.28 trillion (2025) · Vietnam: $515 billion (2025)

Saudi Arabia produces 4.1 times as much per person as Vietnam

Saudi Arabia: Int$73,784 (2025) · Vietnam: Int$18,089 (2025)

Saudi Arabia: no data · Vietnam: 36.1 (2022)

Saudi Arabia: no data · Vietnam: 1.6% (2022)

Unemployment is 3.0% in Saudi Arabia, versus 1.5% in Vietnam

Saudi Arabia: 3% (2025) · Vietnam: 1.5% (2025)

Saudi Arabia spends 6.5% of its GDP on the military, Vietnam 2.2%

Saudi Arabia: 6.5% (2025) · Vietnam: 2.2% (2025)

Saudi Arabia: 8.1% (2024) · Vietnam: no data

Saudi Arabia’s price level (US = 100) is 1.7× Vietnam’s

Saudi Arabia: 47% (2025) · Vietnam: 28% (2025)

Saudi Arabia spends 9.3 times as much on health per person as Vietnam

Saudi Arabia: $1,825 (2023) · Vietnam: $197 (2023)

A baby in Vietnam is 2.6 times as likely to die before turning one as in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 4.7 per 1,000 (2024) · Vietnam: 12 per 1,000 (2024)

Saudi Arabia has 3.1 times as many doctors per person as Vietnam

Saudi Arabia: 3.4 per 1,000 (2023) · Vietnam: 1.1 per 1,000 (2021)

Vietnam has 5% more hospital beds per person than Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 2.4 per 1,000 (2023) · Vietnam: 2.5 per 1,000 (2017)

The suicide rate in Vietnam is 4.5 times that in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 2.2 per 100k (2023) · Vietnam: 10 per 100k (2023)

39% of adults in Saudi Arabia are obese, versus 2.5% in Vietnam

Saudi Arabia: 39.2% (2024) · Vietnam: 2.5% (2024)

21% of adults in Vietnam smoke, versus 15% in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 14.7% (2024) · Vietnam: 21.1% (2024)

People in Saudi Arabia rate their lives 0.39 points higher than in Vietnam

Saudi Arabia: 6.82 (2025) · Vietnam: 6.43 (2025)

Saudi Arabia: no data · Vietnam: 10.7 litres (2023)

Vietnam has 4% more meat per person than Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 58.1 kg (2023) · Vietnam: 60.5 kg (2023)

Saudi Arabia has 574 kcal more food per person per day than Vietnam

Saudi Arabia: 3,660 kcal (2023) · Vietnam: 3,086 kcal (2023)

Workers in Vietnam put in 36 more hours a year than in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 2,125 hours (2023) · Vietnam: 2,160 hours (2023)

Adults in Saudi Arabia went to school 2.6 years longer than in Vietnam

Saudi Arabia: 11.6 years (2023) · Vietnam: 9 years (2023)

Saudi Arabia welcomed 10 times as many tourists per resident as Vietnam (2019)

Saudi Arabia: 0.84 (2024) · Vietnam: 0.08 (2015)

Vietnam has 1 more World Heritage site than Saudi Arabia (9 against 8)

Saudi Arabia: 8 (2026) · Vietnam: 9 (2026)

Vietnam has won 5 Olympic medals, Saudi Arabia 4

Saudi Arabia: 4 (2026 edition) · Vietnam: 5 (2026 edition)

100% of people in Saudi Arabia are online, versus 84% in Vietnam

Saudi Arabia: 100% (2024) · Vietnam: 84% (2024)

Home internet in Vietnam is 24% faster than in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 196 Mbps (2026) · Vietnam: 244 Mbps (2026)

Saudi Arabia and Vietnam are practically level

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

85% of people in Saudi Arabia live in cities, versus 39% in Vietnam

Saudi Arabia: 85% (2025) · Vietnam: 39% (2025)

Saudi Arabia has 160 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Vietnam 128

Saudi Arabia: 160 (2024) · Vietnam: 128 (2024)

Vietnam’s railway network is 7% longer than Saudi Arabia’s

Saudi Arabia: 2,939 km (2018) · Vietnam: 3,159 km (2021)

Airlines from Saudi Arabia fly 2.4 times as many passengers per resident as those from Vietnam

Saudi Arabia: 1.3 (2023) · Vietnam: 0.54 (2023)

Forest covers 47% of Vietnam, but only 1.3% of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 1.3% (2024) · Vietnam: 47.1% (2024)

The average person in Saudi Arabia emits 5.5 times as much CO₂ as someone in Vietnam

Saudi Arabia: 20.4 t (2024) · Vietnam: 3.7 t (2024)

45% of Vietnam’s electricity is renewable, versus 2.2% in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 2.2% (2024) · Vietnam: 45.4% (2025)

The air in Saudi Arabia carries 2 times as much fine dust as in Vietnam

Saudi Arabia: 50.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Vietnam: 25.6 µg/m³ (2024)

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

Roads in Saudi Arabia are 16% deadlier than in Vietnam

Saudi Arabia: 21.4 per 100k (2023) · Vietnam: 18.4 per 100k (2023)

Saudi Arabia is on average 2.5 °C warmer than Vietnam

Saudi Arabia: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · Vietnam: 24.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

Vietnam gets 35 times as much rain as Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: 61 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Vietnam: 2,132 mm (2016–2025 avg)