Myanmar (Burma)
Myanmar (Burma) in numbers
38 measures of Myanmar (Burma) 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 spending6.61% of GDP in 2024
- Military spending in US dollars$4.65B in 2024
- Military spending per person$92 in 2024
- Military share of state spending32% of government spending in 2024
- Armed forces personnel463,000 people in 2020
- National power0.53% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.94% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports70 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Myanmar (Burma) with…
- Myanmar (Burma) vs India
- Myanmar (Burma) vs China
- Myanmar (Burma) vs United States
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Indonesia
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Pakistan
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Nigeria
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Brazil
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Bangladesh
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Russia
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Ethiopia
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Mexico
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Japan
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Egypt
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Philippines
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Vietnam
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Iran
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Türkiye
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Germany
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Thailand
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Tanzania
- Myanmar (Burma) vs United Kingdom
- Myanmar (Burma) vs France
- Myanmar (Burma) vs South Africa
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Italy
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Kenya
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Colombia
- Myanmar (Burma) vs South Korea
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Sudan
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Spain
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Argentina
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Canada
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Saudi Arabia
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Poland
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Malaysia
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Australia
- Myanmar (Burma) vs North Korea
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Netherlands
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Cambodia
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Belgium
- Myanmar (Burma) vs United Arab Emirates
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Papua New Guinea
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Sweden
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Israel
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Austria
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Switzerland
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Laos
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Singapore
- Myanmar (Burma) vs Ireland
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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