Sweden’s coastline is 2.4 times as long as Sri Lanka’s

Sri Lanka: 1,340 km (2026 edition) · Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition)

Sri Lanka’s highest peak towers 424 m above Sweden’s

Sri Lanka: 2,524 m (2026 edition) · Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 49% of Sri Lanka, versus 7.3% of Sweden

Sri Lanka: 48.8% (2024) · Sweden: 7.3% (2024)

Sri Lanka has 2.1 times as many people as Sweden

Sri Lanka: 21.8 million (2025) · Sweden: 10.6 million (2025)

Sri Lanka is 14 times as densely populated as Sweden

Sri Lanka: 352 per km² (2025) · Sweden: 26 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sweden is 7.1 years older than in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 32.8 years (2023) · Sweden: 39.9 years (2023)

Women in Sri Lanka have 0.5 more children on average than in Sweden

Sri Lanka: 1.95 children per woman (2024) · Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Sweden are 65 or older, versus 12% in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 12.5% (2025) · Sweden: 20.9% (2025)

Sweden hosts 1,389 times as many refugees per resident as Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 0.0098 per 1,000 (2025) · Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Sweden has produced 28.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Sri Lanka none

Sri Lanka: 0 (2026) · Sweden: 28.3 (2026)

Sri Lanka has 2 official languages, Sweden 1

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

Sweden’s economy is 6.1 times the size of Sri Lanka’s

Sri Lanka: $109 billion (2025) · Sweden: $669 billion (2025)

Sweden produces 4.3 times as much per person as Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Int$17,065 (2025) · Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Sri Lanka than in Sweden (Gini 8.4 points higher)

Sri Lanka: 37.7 (2019) · Sweden: 29.3 (2023)

2.7% of people in Sri Lanka live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.8% in Sweden

Sri Lanka: 2.7% (2019) · Sweden: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.7% in Sweden, versus 4.0% in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 4% (2025) · Sweden: 8.7% (2025)

Sweden spends 2.5% of its GDP on the military, Sri Lanka 1.3%

Sri Lanka: 1.3% (2025) · Sweden: 2.5% (2025)

Sweden’s central government collects 27% of GDP in tax, Sri Lanka’s 9.9%

Sri Lanka: 9.9% (2023) · Sweden: 27.2% (2024)

Sweden’s price level (US = 100) is 3× Sri Lanka’s

Sri Lanka: 29% (2025) · Sweden: 87% (2025)

Sweden spends 48 times as much on health per person as Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: $134 (2023) · Sweden: $6,485 (2024)

A baby in Sri Lanka is 2.6 times as likely to die before turning one as in Sweden

Sri Lanka: 5.2 per 1,000 (2024) · Sweden: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Sweden has 3.9 times as many doctors per person as Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 1.1 per 1,000 (2023) · Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021)

Sri Lanka has 2.1 times as many hospital beds per person as Sweden

Sri Lanka: 3.9 per 1,000 (2023) · Sweden: 1.9 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Sri Lanka is 10% higher than in Sweden

Sri Lanka: 14 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023)

19% of adults in Sweden are obese, versus 11% in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 11.2% (2024) · Sweden: 18.7% (2024)

Sri Lanka and Sweden are practically level

Sri Lanka: 20.7% (2024) · Sweden: 20.3% (2024)

People in Sweden rate their lives 3.24 points higher than in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 4.01 (2025) · Sweden: 7.26 (2025)

Adults in Sweden drink 3.5 times as much alcohol as in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 2.5 litres (2023) · Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023)

Sweden has 5.9 times as much meat per person as Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 11.6 kg (2023) · Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023)

Sweden has 692 kcal more food per person per day than Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 2,675 kcal (2023) · Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023)

Workers in Sri Lanka put in 622 more hours a year than in Sweden

Sri Lanka: 2,053 hours (2023) · Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023)

Adults in Sweden went to school 2 years longer than in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 10.8 years (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 years (2023)

Sweden welcomed 19 times as many tourists per resident as Sri Lanka (2019)

Sri Lanka: 0.03 (2022) · Sweden: 0.63 (2022)

Sweden has 7 more World Heritage sites than Sri Lanka (15 against 8)

Sri Lanka: 8 (2026) · Sweden: 15 (2026)

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, Sri Lanka 2

Sri Lanka: 2 (2026 edition) · Sweden: 709 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Sweden are online, versus 55% in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 55% (2024) · Sweden: 96% (2025)

Home internet in Sweden is 4 times as fast as in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 63 Mbps (2026) · Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026)

Sri Lanka and Sweden are practically level

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

89% of people in Sweden live in cities, versus 20% in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 20% (2025) · Sweden: 89% (2025)

Sweden has 141 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Sri Lanka 133

Sri Lanka: 133 (2024) · Sweden: 141 (2024)

Sweden’s railway network is 6.2 times as long as Sri Lanka’s

Sri Lanka: 1,562 km (2019) · Sweden: 9,714 km (2021)

Airlines from Sweden fly 10 times as many passengers per resident as those from Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 0.18 (2023) · Sweden: 1.85 (2023)

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 34% of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 34.4% (2024) · Sweden: 68.6% (2024)

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

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

71% of Sweden’s electricity is renewable, versus 62% in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 61.6% (2025) · Sweden: 71.2% (2025)

The air in Sri Lanka carries 3.6 times as much fine dust as in Sweden

Sri Lanka: 20.7 µg/m³ (2024) · Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 2.9 times as likely to be murdered in Sri Lanka as in Sweden

Sri Lanka: 3.3 per 100k (2019) · Sweden: 1.1 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Sri Lanka are 6.2 times as deadly as in Sweden

Sri Lanka: 21.1 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023)

Sri Lanka is on average 22.5 °C warmer than Sweden

Sri Lanka: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 4.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Sri Lanka gets 2.3 times as much rain as Sweden

Sri Lanka: 1,839 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 801 mm (2016–2025 avg)