Libya
Libya in numbers
37 measures of Libya 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 spending3.57% of GDP in 2023
- Military spending in US dollars$1.6B in 2023
- Military spending per person$216 in 2023
- Military share of state spending5.5% of government spending in 2023
- Armed forces personnel0 people in 2020
- National power0.08% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports5 million TIV in 2024
- Arms exports0 TIV in 2016
Climate
Technology and environment
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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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