Egypt
Egypt in numbers
38 measures of Egypt 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 spending0.61% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$2.26B in 2025
- Military spending per person$21 in 2025
- Military share of state spending2.5% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel836,000 people in 2020
- National power1.18% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers2.76% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports697 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports2 million TIV in 2024
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Egypt with…
- Egypt vs India
- Egypt vs China
- Egypt vs United States
- Egypt vs Indonesia
- Egypt vs Pakistan
- Egypt vs Nigeria
- Egypt vs Brazil
- Egypt vs Bangladesh
- Egypt vs Russia
- Egypt vs Ethiopia
- Egypt vs Mexico
- Egypt vs Japan
- Egypt vs Philippines
- Egypt vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Egypt vs Vietnam
- Egypt vs Iran
- Egypt vs Türkiye
- Egypt vs Germany
- Egypt vs Thailand
- Egypt vs Tanzania
- Egypt vs United Kingdom
- Egypt vs France
- Egypt vs South Africa
- Egypt vs Italy
- Egypt vs Kenya
- Egypt vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Egypt vs Colombia
- Egypt vs South Korea
- Egypt vs Sudan
- Egypt vs Spain
- Egypt vs Algeria
- Egypt vs Iraq
- Egypt vs Argentina
- Egypt vs Afghanistan
- Egypt vs Yemen
- Egypt vs Canada
- Egypt vs Morocco
- Egypt vs Saudi Arabia
- Egypt vs Poland
- Egypt vs Australia
- Egypt vs Syria
- Egypt vs Netherlands
- Egypt vs Tunisia
- Egypt vs Belgium
- Egypt vs Jordan
- Egypt vs United Arab Emirates
- Egypt vs Sweden
- Egypt vs Israel
- Egypt vs Austria
- Egypt vs Switzerland
- Egypt vs Libya
- Egypt vs Singapore
- Egypt vs Ireland
- Egypt vs Palestinian Territories
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.
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