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Ethiopia vs Kenya

119 shared metrics.

EthiopiaLeads in 48

vs119 shared

KenyaLeads in 71

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Ethiopia

Quick notes before you compare the numbers.

Identity

Formal name: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Ethiopia's Lalibela churches were carved down into living rock, not built up from blocks.

UNESCO

Kenya

Quick notes before you compare the numbers.

Identity

Formal name: Republic of Kenya.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Kenya's Lake Turkana is the world's largest desert lake.

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Analysis

Kenya leads in 71 of 119 shared metrics, while Ethiopia leads in 48.

Ethiopia's Broadband Access (%) is 100.0x that of Kenya (202 per 100 people vs 2.0 per 100 people).

Ethiopia's FDI Inflows (% GDP) is 6.0x that of Kenya (2.7% of GDP vs 0.39% of GDP).

Ethiopia's Armed Forces Personnel is 4.8x that of Kenya (138.0K vs 24.0K).

Ethiopia's Forest Area is 3.7x that of Kenya (168.5K km² vs 36.1K km²).

Ethiopia's Inflation Rate is 3.7x that of Kenya (21% vs 4.5%).

Key Comparisons

Broadband Access (%)Ethiopia leads

Ethiopia

202 per 100 people

Kenya

2.0 per 100 people

FDI Inflows (% GDP)Ethiopia leads

Ethiopia

2.7% of GDP

Kenya

0.39% of GDP

Armed Forces PersonnelEthiopia leads

Ethiopia

138.0K

Kenya

24.0K

Forest AreaEthiopia leads

Ethiopia

168.5K km²

Kenya

36.1K km²

Inflation RateEthiopia leads

Ethiopia

21%

Kenya

4.5%

Scientific PublicationsEthiopia leads

Kenya

Ethiopia

0.12%

Kenya

4.6%

97% lower

Domestic Patents

Kenya

Ethiopia

6.0

Kenya

160

96% lower

Kenya

Ethiopia

Kenya

344

83% lower

Spirits Consumption

Kenya

Ethiopia

0.14 L/person/yr

Kenya

0.76 L/person/yr

82% lower

Seafood Consumption per Person

Kenya

Ethiopia

0.53 kg/person/yr

Kenya

3.0 kg/person/yr

82% lower

Comparison of Ethiopia and Kenya across 119 metrics
				Winner
Broadband Access (%)	202 per 100 people	2.0 per 100 people	10000% higher	Ethiopia
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	2.7% of GDP	0.39% of GDP	597% higher	Ethiopia
Armed Forces Personnel	138.0K	24.0K	475% higher	Ethiopia
Forest Area	168.5K km²	36.1K km²	367% higher	Ethiopia
Inflation Rate	21%	4.5%	367% higher	Ethiopia
Scientific Publications	7.2K	2.0K	257% higher	Ethiopia
Air Passengers	15.27M	5.14M	197% higher	Ethiopia
Water Withdrawal	10.55 B m³	4.0 B m³	162% higher	Ethiopia
Forest Coverage (%)	14.93%	6.2%	140% higher	Ethiopia
Population	121.37M	55.75M	118% higher	Ethiopia
Solar Electricity Share	0.12%	4.6%	97% lower	Kenya
Domestic Patents	6.0	160	96% lower	Kenya
Land Area	1.13M km²	580.9K km²	94% higher	Ethiopia
Credit Card Ownership	0.40% of adults	4.4% of adults	91% lower	Kenya
Mobile Money Accounts	9.5% of adults	87.5% of adults	89% lower	Kenya
Vehicles per 1,000 People	6.6 per 1k people	61.9 per 1k people	89% lower	Kenya
Railway Length	659 km	3.8K km	83% lower	Kenya
Airports	58	344	83% lower	Kenya
Spirits Consumption	0.14 L/person/yr	0.76 L/person/yr	82% lower	Kenya
Seafood Consumption per Person	0.53 kg/person/yr	3.0 kg/person/yr	82% lower	Kenya
Beer Consumption	1.0 L/person/yr	0.57 L/person/yr	80% higher	Ethiopia
Wind Electricity Share	3.3%	16.38%	80% lower	Kenya
Obesity Rate	2.4%	11.04%	78% lower	Kenya
Liberal Democracy Index	0.10	0.45	78% lower	Kenya
Women in Parliament (%)	41.31%	23.28%	77% higher	Ethiopia
Hospital Beds (per 1,000)	0.30 per 1k	1.3 per 1k	77% lower	Kenya
Digital Payments Used	20.66% of adults	89.28% of adults	77% lower	Kenya
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0.00 per 100k people	0.01 per 100k people	77% lower	Kenya
Tax Revenue (% GDP)	3.4% of GDP	14.06% of GDP	76% lower	Kenya
Irrigated Land	1.8K km²	1.0K km²	76% higher	Ethiopia
Electricity Carbon Intensity	23.08 gCO2/kWh	95.44 gCO2/kWh	76% lower	Kenya
Sanitation Access (%)	10.36%	40.88%	75% lower	Kenya
Firms Making Informal Payments	11.13% of firms	39.46% of firms	72% lower	Kenya
Land Border Length	5.9K km	3.5K km	71% higher	Ethiopia
Health Spending Per Capita	$27.07	$90.44	70% lower	Kenya
Exports (% GDP)	5.5% of GDP	17.07% of GDP	68% lower	Kenya
Freedom of Expression Index	0.28	0.90	68% lower	Kenya
Meat Consumption per Person	5.4 kg/person/yr	15.94 kg/person/yr	66% lower	Kenya
Youth Unemployment Rate	5.4% of youth labor force	15.25% of youth labor force	65% lower	Kenya
CO2 Per Capita	0.14 t/person/yr	0.38 t/person/yr	64% lower	Kenya
GDP Growth Rate	7.6%	4.7%	61% higher	Ethiopia
Water Stress (%)	8.6%	19.48%	56% lower	Kenya
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0.01 per 1M people	0.02 per 1M people	56% lower	Kenya
ATMs per 100,000 Adults	10.23 per 100k	6.6 per 100k	55% higher	Ethiopia
Merchant Fleet Size	12	26	54% lower	Kenya
Electoral Democracy Index	0.26	0.56	54% lower	Kenya
Milk Consumption per Person	44.14 kg/person/yr	94.86 kg/person/yr	53% lower	Kenya
Doctors (per 1,000)	0.14 per 1k	0.29 per 1k	52% lower	Kenya
Smoking Rate	5.2%	10.7%	51% lower	Kenya
Internet Users (%)	17%	34.98%	51% lower	Kenya
Electricity Use (Per Capita)	92.44 kWh/person	190.08 kWh/person	51% lower	Kenya
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	$3,287.53	$6,644.13	51% lower	Kenya
Time Zones Count	3.0 time zones	2.0 time zones	50% higher	Ethiopia
Official Languages Count	1.0	2.0	50% lower	Kenya
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	12 sites	8.0 sites	50% higher	Ethiopia
All-Time Olympic Medals	62 medals	124 medals	50% lower	Kenya
Imports (% GDP)	11.86% of GDP	23.12% of GDP	49% lower	Kenya
Electric Generating Capacity	5.69M kW	3.82M kW	49% higher	Ethiopia
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	65 per 100 people	126 per 100 people	48% lower	Kenya
GNI Per Capita	$1,100	$2,090	47% lower	Kenya
Firms Asked for Bribes	17.68% of firms	33.19% of firms	47% lower	Kenya
Foreign Patents	54	37	46% higher	Ethiopia
Tobacco Use Prevalence	5.2% of adults	9.3% of adults	44% lower	Kenya
Minimum Paid Vacation Days	12 days/yr	21 days/yr	43% lower	Kenya
Education Spending (% GDP)	2.3% of GDP	4.0% of GDP	43% lower	Kenya
Capital Elevation	2.4K m	1.7K m	42% higher	Ethiopia
Electricity Generation	18.26 TWh	12.85 TWh	42% higher	Ethiopia
Government Debt (% GDP)	31.4% of GDP	53.2% of GDP	41% lower	Kenya
All-Time Olympic Gold Medals	24 gold medals	39 gold medals	38% lower	Kenya
Unemployment Rate	3.4%	5.4%	37% lower	Kenya
Road Traffic Death Rate	17.7 per 100k	28.2 per 100k	37% lower	Kenya
Military Spending	0.65% of GDP	1.00% of GDP	35% lower	Kenya
Renewable Energy (%)	90.6%	67.7%	34% higher	Ethiopia
Health Spending (% GDP)	2.9% of GDP	4.3% of GDP	34% lower	Kenya
Suicide Rate	6.1 per 100k	4.6 per 100k	33% higher	Ethiopia
Agricultural Land (%)	34.08%	49.53%	31% lower	Kenya
Energy Use (Per Capita)	377.92 kg oil eq/person	544.94 kg oil eq/person	31% lower	Kenya
Corruption Perceptions Index	38 pts	30 pts	27% higher	Ethiopia
Electricity Access (%)	55.4%	76.2%	27% lower	Kenya
Urban Population (%)	23.62%	31.89%	26% lower	Kenya
Teen Birth Rate	69.86 per 1k	56.31 per 1k	24% higher	Ethiopia
GDP (Nominal)	$149,740,297,952.99	$120,339,557,905.93	24% higher	Ethiopia
Alcohol Consumption	3.1 L/adult/yr	2.5 L/adult/yr	24% higher	Ethiopia
Fertility Rate	3.8 children/woman	3.1 children/woman	22% higher	Ethiopia
Human Development Index	0.50	0.63	21% lower	Kenya
Protected Land (%)	17%	14%	21% higher	Ethiopia
Population Density	114.04 /km²	95.27 /km²	20% higher	Ethiopia
Border Neighbors	6.0	5.0	20% higher	Ethiopia
Average Weekly Work Hours	31.92 hrs/week	39.56 hrs/week	19% lower	Kenya
High-Tech Exports (%)	3.8%	3.1%	19% higher	Ethiopia
Inequality (Gini)	31.1	37.7	18% lower	Kenya
Death Rate	5.6 per 1k	4.7 per 1k	18% higher	Ethiopia
Child Mortality	46.5 per 1k births	39.9 per 1k births	17% higher	Ethiopia
Nurses & Midwives	0.75 per 1k	0.64 per 1k	16% higher	Ethiopia
Life Evaluation Score	4.0 pts	4.7 pts	15% lower	Kenya
Firms Hit by Power Outages	85.87% of firms	74.61% of firms	15% higher	Ethiopia
Women's Political Empowerment	0.69	0.80	14% lower	Kenya
Birth Rate	29.08 per 1k	25.93 per 1k	12% higher	Ethiopia
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	27.31 µg/m³	24.39 µg/m³	12% higher	Ethiopia
Highest Elevation	4.5K m	5.2K m	12% lower	Kenya
Dependency Ratio	73.28% of working-age pop.	66.12% of working-age pop.	11% higher	Ethiopia
Can Raise Emergency Money	85.97% of adults	96.6% of adults	11% lower	Kenya
Total CO2 Emissions	19.36 Mt CO2e	21.64 Mt CO2e	11% lower	Kenya
Informal Employment Share	77.65% of employed people	86.49% of employed people	10% lower	Kenya
Food Waste per Person	110.06 kg/person/yr	122.64 kg/person/yr	10% lower	Kenya
Women in Senior Management	27% of managers	29.7% of managers	9% lower	Kenya
Elderly Population (%)	3.2%	3.0%	9% higher	Ethiopia
Firms with Female Top Manager	16.44% of firms	17.75% of firms	7% lower	Kenya
Political Corruption Index	0.53	0.56	6% lower	Kenya
Life Expectancy	67.3 years	63.6 years	6% higher	Ethiopia
Youth Population (%)	39.06%	36.84%	6% higher	Ethiopia
Insufficient Physical Activity	9.4% of adults	9.0% of adults	5% higher	Ethiopia
Median Age	18.7 years	19.5 years	4% lower	Kenya
Infant Mortality	35.7 per 1k births	34.7 per 1k births	3% higher	Ethiopia
Coastline Length	0 km	536 km	ranked lower	Kenya
Coal Electricity Share	0%	0%	ranked higher	Ethiopia
Lowest Elevation	-125 m	0 m	ranked lower	Kenya
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	-0.9% of GDP	-2.7% of GDP	ranked higher	Ethiopia
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0 per 1M people	0.02 per 1M people	ranked lower	Kenya

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Analysis

Kenya leads in 71 of 119 shared metrics, while Ethiopia leads in 48.

Ethiopia's Broadband Access (%) is 100.0x that of Kenya (202 per 100 people vs 2.0 per 100 people).

Ethiopia's FDI Inflows (% GDP) is 6.0x that of Kenya (2.7% of GDP vs 0.39% of GDP).

Ethiopia's Armed Forces Personnel is 4.8x that of Kenya (138.0K vs 24.0K).

Ethiopia's Forest Area is 3.7x that of Kenya (168.5K km² vs 36.1K km²).

Ethiopia's Inflation Rate is 3.7x that of Kenya (21% vs 4.5%).

Key Comparisons

Broadband Access (%)Ethiopia leads

Ethiopia

202 per 100 people

Kenya

2.0 per 100 people

FDI Inflows (% GDP)Ethiopia leads

Ethiopia

2.7% of GDP

Kenya

0.39% of GDP

Armed Forces PersonnelEthiopia leads

Ethiopia

138.0K

Kenya

24.0K

Forest AreaEthiopia leads

Ethiopia

168.5K km²

Kenya

36.1K km²

Inflation RateEthiopia leads

Ethiopia

21%

Kenya

4.5%

Scientific PublicationsEthiopia leads

Ethiopia

7.2K

Kenya

2.0K

Broadband Access (%)

202 per 100 people

2.0 per 100 people

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

2.7% of GDP

0.39% of GDP

Armed Forces Personnel

138.0K

24.0K

Forest Area

168.5K km²

36.1K km²

Inflation Rate

21%

4.5%

Scientific Publications

7.2K

2.0K

Air Passengers

15.27M

5.14M

Water Withdrawal

10.55 B m³

4.0 B m³

Forest Coverage (%)

14.93%

6.2%

Population

121.37M

55.75M

Solar Electricity Share

0.12%

4.6%

Domestic Patents

6.0

160

Land Area

1.13M km²

580.9K km²

Credit Card Ownership

0.40% of adults

4.4% of adults

Mobile Money Accounts

9.5% of adults

87.5% of adults

Vehicles per 1,000 People

6.6 per 1k people

61.9 per 1k people

Railway Length

659 km

3.8K km

Airports

344

Spirits Consumption

0.14 L/person/yr

0.76 L/person/yr

Seafood Consumption per Person

0.53 kg/person/yr

3.0 kg/person/yr

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Analysis

Key Comparisons

All Metrics

Broadband Access (%)

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

Armed Forces Personnel

Forest Area

Inflation Rate

Scientific Publications

Air Passengers

Water Withdrawal

Forest Coverage (%)

Population

Solar Electricity Share

Domestic Patents

Land Area

Credit Card Ownership

Mobile Money Accounts

Vehicles per 1,000 People

Railway Length

Airports

Spirits Consumption

Seafood Consumption per Person

Beer Consumption

Wind Electricity Share

Obesity Rate

Liberal Democracy Index

Women in Parliament (%)

Hospital Beds (per 1,000)

Digital Payments Used

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Tax Revenue (% GDP)

Irrigated Land

Electricity Carbon Intensity

Sanitation Access (%)

Firms Making Informal Payments

Land Border Length

Health Spending Per Capita

Exports (% GDP)

Freedom of Expression Index

Meat Consumption per Person

Youth Unemployment Rate

CO2 Per Capita

GDP Growth Rate

Water Stress (%)

Nobel Laureates Born per Million People

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

Merchant Fleet Size

Electoral Democracy Index

Milk Consumption per Person

Doctors (per 1,000)

Smoking Rate

Internet Users (%)

Electricity Use (Per Capita)

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

Time Zones Count

Official Languages Count

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

All-Time Olympic Medals

Imports (% GDP)

Electric Generating Capacity

Mobile Subscriptions (%)

GNI Per Capita

Firms Asked for Bribes

Foreign Patents

Tobacco Use Prevalence

Minimum Paid Vacation Days

Education Spending (% GDP)

Capital Elevation

Electricity Generation

Government Debt (% GDP)

All-Time Olympic Gold Medals

Unemployment Rate

Road Traffic Death Rate

Military Spending