Chad
Chad in numbers
39 measures of Chad from 1800 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending3.19% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$598M in 2025
- Military spending per person$31 in 2025
- Military share of state spending15.5% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel45,000 people in 2020
- National power0.1% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.85% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports4 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports20 million TIV in 1987
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Chad with…
- Chad vs Nigeria
- Chad vs Ethiopia
- Chad vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Chad vs Tanzania
- Chad vs South Africa
- Chad vs Kenya
- Chad vs Sudan
- Chad vs Uganda
- Chad vs Angola
- Chad vs Mozambique
- Chad vs Ghana
- Chad vs Madagascar
- Chad vs Côte d’Ivoire
- Chad vs Cameroon
- Chad vs Niger
- Chad vs Mali
- Chad vs Burkina Faso
- Chad vs Malawi
- Chad vs Zambia
- Chad vs Somalia
- Chad vs Senegal
- Chad vs Zimbabwe
- Chad vs Guinea
- Chad vs Benin
- Chad vs Rwanda
- Chad vs Burundi
- Chad vs South Sudan
- Chad vs Libya
- Chad vs Central African Republic
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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