Spain vs Afghanistan

Spain has a live population of about 47,837,254 (#32 in the world) and Afghanistan about 45,400,503 (#36), so Spain has 1.1 times as many people as Afghanistan. Spain is growing at -0.1% a year and Afghanistan at 2.7%.

By area Afghanistan is larger: 652,870 km² against 505,976 km², which gives population densities of 94.5 people per km² in Spain and 69.5 in Afghanistan.

Spain's economy is worth $1.91T (2025) and Afghanistan's $17.78B (2024); per person that is $38,627 in Spain versus $417 in Afghanistan, so the average Spain resident produces 92.7 times as much.

Life expectancy is 83.9 years in Spain and 66.3 in Afghanistan; women have 1.1 children on average in Spain compared with 4.8 in Afghanistan; the median age is 46.3 versus 17.4 years.

80.5% of Spain's people live in cities against 25.9% in Afghanistan; 95.8% use the internet in Spain and 16.1% in Afghanistan; CO₂ emissions per person are 4.5 t in Spain and 0.3 t in Afghanistan.