Thailand and Sweden are nearly identical here

Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition) · Thailand: 3,219 km (2026 edition)

Thailand’s highest peak towers 465 m above Sweden’s

Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition) · Thailand: 2,565 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 43% of Thailand, versus 7.3% of Sweden

Sweden: 7.3% (2024) · Thailand: 43.3% (2024)

Thailand has 6.8 times as many people as Sweden

Sweden: 10.6 million (2025) · Thailand: 71.6 million (2025)

Thailand is 5.4 times as densely populated as Sweden

Sweden: 26 per km² (2025) · Thailand: 140 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sweden is 0.25 years older than in Thailand

Sweden: 39.9 years (2023) · Thailand: 39.7 years (2023)

Women in Sweden have 0.2 more children on average than in Thailand

Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024) · Thailand: 1.2 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Sweden are 65 or older, versus 16% in Thailand

Sweden: 20.9% (2025) · Thailand: 16% (2025)

Sweden hosts 12 times as many refugees per resident as Thailand

Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025) · Thailand: 1.2 per 1,000 (2025)

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

Sweden: 28.3 (2026) · Thailand: 0 (2026)

Sweden and Thailand are practically level

Sweden: 1 (2026) · Thailand: 1 (2026)

Sweden’s economy is 16% larger than Thailand’s

Sweden: $669 billion (2025) · Thailand: $577 billion (2025)

Sweden produces 2.8 times as much per person as Thailand

Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025) · Thailand: Int$26,250 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Thailand than in Sweden (Gini 4 points higher)

Sweden: 29.3 (2023) · Thailand: 33.3 (2024)

0.8% of people in Sweden live on less than $3 a day, versus 0% in Thailand

Sweden: 0.8% (2023) · Thailand: 0% (2024)

Unemployment is 8.7% in Sweden, versus 0.8% in Thailand

Sweden: 8.7% (2025) · Thailand: 0.8% (2025)

Sweden spends 2.5% of its GDP on the military, Thailand 1.0%

Sweden: 2.5% (2025) · Thailand: 1% (2025)

Sweden’s central government collects 27% of GDP in tax, Thailand’s 15%

Sweden: 27.2% (2024) · Thailand: 15.2% (2024)

Sweden’s price level (US = 100) is 2.8× Thailand’s

Sweden: 87% (2025) · Thailand: 31% (2025)

Sweden spends 20 times as much on health per person as Thailand

Sweden: $6,485 (2024) · Thailand: $327 (2023)

A baby in Thailand is 3.9 times as likely to die before turning one as in Sweden

Sweden: 2 per 1,000 (2024) · Thailand: 7.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Sweden has 8.1 times as many doctors per person as Thailand

Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021) · Thailand: 0.5 per 1,000 (2021)

Thailand has 26% more hospital beds per person than Sweden

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

The suicide rate in Sweden is 32% higher than in Thailand

Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023) · Thailand: 9.6 per 100k (2023)

19% of adults in Sweden are obese, versus 16% in Thailand

Sweden: 18.7% (2024) · Thailand: 15.5% (2024)

20% of adults in Sweden smoke, versus 18% in Thailand

Sweden: 20.3% (2024) · Thailand: 17.8% (2024)

People in Sweden rate their lives 0.96 points higher than in Thailand

Sweden: 7.26 (2025) · Thailand: 6.30 (2025)

Adults in Sweden drink 10% more alcohol than in Thailand

Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023) · Thailand: 7.9 litres (2023)

Sweden has 2.8 times as much meat per person as Thailand

Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023) · Thailand: 24.5 kg (2023)

Sweden has 512 kcal more food per person per day than Thailand

Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023) · Thailand: 2,855 kcal (2023)

Workers in Thailand put in 746 more hours a year than in Sweden

Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023) · Thailand: 2,177 hours (2023)

Adults in Sweden went to school 3.7 years longer than in Thailand

Sweden: 12.7 years (2023) · Thailand: 9 years (2023)

Sweden welcomed 13% more tourists per resident than Thailand (2019)

Sweden: 0.63 (2022) · Thailand: 0.56 (2019)

Sweden has 6 more World Heritage sites than Thailand (15 against 9)

Sweden: 15 (2026) · Thailand: 9 (2026)

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, Thailand 41

Sweden: 709 (2026 edition) · Thailand: 41 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Sweden are online, versus 91% in Thailand

Sweden: 96% (2025) · Thailand: 91% (2024)

Home internet in Thailand is 45% faster than in Sweden

Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026) · Thailand: 360 Mbps (2026)

Sweden and Thailand are practically level

Sweden: 100% (2024) · Thailand: 100% (2024)

89% of people in Sweden live in cities, versus 63% in Thailand

Sweden: 89% (2025) · Thailand: 63% (2025)

Thailand has 161 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Sweden 141

Sweden: 141 (2024) · Thailand: 161 (2024)

Sweden’s railway network is 2.4 times as long as Thailand’s

Sweden: 9,714 km (2021) · Thailand: 4,092 km (2017)

Airlines from Sweden fly 2.5 times as many passengers per resident as those from Thailand

Sweden: 1.85 (2023) · Thailand: 0.72 (2023)

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 39% of Thailand

Sweden: 68.6% (2024) · Thailand: 38.7% (2024)

The average person in Thailand emits 4% more CO₂ than someone in Sweden

Sweden: 3.6 t (2024) · Thailand: 3.7 t (2024)

71% of Sweden’s electricity is renewable, versus 17% in Thailand

Sweden: 71.2% (2025) · Thailand: 16.6% (2025)

The air in Thailand carries 4.1 times as much fine dust as in Sweden

Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024) · Thailand: 23.3 µg/m³ (2024)

Sweden: 1.1 per 100k (2023) · Thailand: no data

Roads in Thailand are 10 times as deadly as in Sweden

Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023) · Thailand: 35.6 per 100k (2023)

Thailand is on average 22.4 °C warmer than Sweden

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

Thailand gets 2.1 times as much rain as Sweden

Sweden: 801 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Thailand: 1,657 mm (2016–2025 avg)