Israel
Israel in numbers
38 measures of Israel 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 spending7.81% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$43.7B in 2025
- Military spending per person$5,108 in 2025
- Military share of state spending17.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel178,000 people in 2020
- National power0.38% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers4.23% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports537 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports2.62 billion TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Israel with…
- Israel vs India
- Israel vs China
- Israel vs United States
- Israel vs Indonesia
- Israel vs Pakistan
- Israel vs Nigeria
- Israel vs Brazil
- Israel vs Bangladesh
- Israel vs Russia
- Israel vs Ethiopia
- Israel vs Mexico
- Israel vs Japan
- Israel vs Egypt
- Israel vs Philippines
- Israel vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Israel vs Vietnam
- Israel vs Iran
- Israel vs Türkiye
- Israel vs Germany
- Israel vs Thailand
- Israel vs Tanzania
- Israel vs United Kingdom
- Israel vs France
- Israel vs South Africa
- Israel vs Italy
- Israel vs Kenya
- Israel vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Israel vs Colombia
- Israel vs South Korea
- Israel vs Sudan
- Israel vs Spain
- Israel vs Algeria
- Israel vs Iraq
- Israel vs Argentina
- Israel vs Afghanistan
- Israel vs Yemen
- Israel vs Canada
- Israel vs Morocco
- Israel vs Saudi Arabia
- Israel vs Poland
- Israel vs Australia
- Israel vs Syria
- Israel vs Netherlands
- Israel vs Tunisia
- Israel vs Belgium
- Israel vs Jordan
- Israel vs United Arab Emirates
- Israel vs Sweden
- Israel vs Austria
- Israel vs Switzerland
- Israel vs Singapore
- Israel vs Lebanon
- Israel vs Ireland
- Israel vs Palestinian Territories
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, 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