China
China in numbers
38 measures of China from 1789 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 spending1.73% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$335B in 2025
- Military spending per person$237 in 2025
- Military share of state spending5.1% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel2.54 million people in 2020
- National power23.41% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.33% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports207 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports880 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare China with…
- China vs India
- China vs United States
- China vs Indonesia
- China vs Pakistan
- China vs Nigeria
- China vs Brazil
- China vs Bangladesh
- China vs Russia
- China vs Ethiopia
- China vs Mexico
- China vs Japan
- China vs Egypt
- China vs Philippines
- China vs Congo - Kinshasa
- China vs Vietnam
- China vs Iran
- China vs Türkiye
- China vs Germany
- China vs Thailand
- China vs Tanzania
- China vs United Kingdom
- China vs France
- China vs South Africa
- China vs Italy
- China vs Kenya
- China vs Myanmar (Burma)
- China vs Colombia
- China vs South Korea
- China vs Sudan
- China vs Spain
- China vs Argentina
- China vs Afghanistan
- China vs Canada
- China vs Saudi Arabia
- China vs Poland
- China vs Malaysia
- China vs Nepal
- China vs Australia
- China vs North Korea
- China vs Kazakhstan
- China vs Netherlands
- China vs Cambodia
- China vs Belgium
- China vs United Arab Emirates
- China vs Tajikistan
- China vs Papua New Guinea
- China vs Sweden
- China vs Israel
- China vs Austria
- China vs Switzerland
- China vs Laos
- China vs Kyrgyzstan
- China vs Singapore
- China vs Ireland
- China vs Mongolia
- China vs Bhutan
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, 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.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time