South Korea vs Afghanistan

South Korea has a live population of about 51,580,014 (#31 in the world) and Afghanistan about 45,400,942 (#36), so South Korea has 1.1 times as many people as Afghanistan. South Korea is growing at -0.1% a year and Afghanistan at 2.7%.

By area Afghanistan is larger: 652,870 km² against 100,450 km², which gives population densities of 513.5 people per km² in South Korea and 69.5 in Afghanistan.

South Korea's economy is worth $1.87T (2025) and Afghanistan's $17.78B (2024); per person that is $36,227 in South Korea versus $417 in Afghanistan, so the average South Korea resident produces 86.9 times as much.

Life expectancy is 83.6 years in South Korea and 66.3 in Afghanistan; women have 0.7 children on average in South Korea compared with 4.8 in Afghanistan; the median age is 46.2 versus 17.4 years.

81.2% of South Korea's people live in cities against 25.9% in Afghanistan; 97.9% use the internet in South Korea and 16.1% in Afghanistan; CO₂ emissions per person are 11.4 t in South Korea and 0.3 t in Afghanistan.