Ethiopia
Ethiopia in numbers
39 measures of Ethiopia 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 spending0.49% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$785M in 2025
- Military spending per person$4 in 2025
- Military share of state spending4.1% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel138,000 people in 2020
- National power0.85% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.28% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports63 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports17 million TIV in 1997
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Ethiopia with…
- Ethiopia vs India
- Ethiopia vs China
- Ethiopia vs United States
- Ethiopia vs Indonesia
- Ethiopia vs Pakistan
- Ethiopia vs Nigeria
- Ethiopia vs Brazil
- Ethiopia vs Bangladesh
- Ethiopia vs Russia
- Ethiopia vs Mexico
- Ethiopia vs Japan
- Ethiopia vs Egypt
- Ethiopia vs Philippines
- Ethiopia vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Ethiopia vs Vietnam
- Ethiopia vs Iran
- Ethiopia vs Türkiye
- Ethiopia vs Germany
- Ethiopia vs Thailand
- Ethiopia vs Tanzania
- Ethiopia vs United Kingdom
- Ethiopia vs France
- Ethiopia vs South Africa
- Ethiopia vs Italy
- Ethiopia vs Kenya
- Ethiopia vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Ethiopia vs Colombia
- Ethiopia vs South Korea
- Ethiopia vs Sudan
- Ethiopia vs Uganda
- Ethiopia vs Spain
- Ethiopia vs Argentina
- Ethiopia vs Canada
- Ethiopia vs Angola
- Ethiopia vs Saudi Arabia
- Ethiopia vs Poland
- Ethiopia vs Mozambique
- Ethiopia vs Ghana
- Ethiopia vs Madagascar
- Ethiopia vs Côte d’Ivoire
- Ethiopia vs Cameroon
- Ethiopia vs Niger
- Ethiopia vs Australia
- Ethiopia vs Mali
- Ethiopia vs Burkina Faso
- Ethiopia vs Malawi
- Ethiopia vs Zambia
- Ethiopia vs Chad
- Ethiopia vs Somalia
- Ethiopia vs Senegal
- Ethiopia vs Netherlands
- Ethiopia vs Zimbabwe
- Ethiopia vs Guinea
- Ethiopia vs Benin
- Ethiopia vs Rwanda
- Ethiopia vs Burundi
- Ethiopia vs South Sudan
- Ethiopia vs Belgium
- Ethiopia vs United Arab Emirates
- Ethiopia vs Sweden
- Ethiopia vs Israel
- Ethiopia vs Austria
- Ethiopia vs Switzerland
- Ethiopia vs Singapore
- Ethiopia vs Ireland
- Ethiopia vs Eritrea
- Ethiopia vs Djibouti
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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