Niger
Niger in numbers
38 measures of Niger from 1800 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 spending2.14% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$450M in 2025
- Military spending per person$18 in 2025
- Military share of state spending15.2% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel10,000 people in 2020
- National power0.11% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.11% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports4 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports0 TIV in 1973
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Niger with…
- Niger vs Nigeria
- Niger vs Ethiopia
- Niger vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Niger vs Tanzania
- Niger vs South Africa
- Niger vs Kenya
- Niger vs Sudan
- Niger vs Uganda
- Niger vs Algeria
- Niger vs Angola
- Niger vs Mozambique
- Niger vs Ghana
- Niger vs Madagascar
- Niger vs Côte d’Ivoire
- Niger vs Cameroon
- Niger vs Mali
- Niger vs Burkina Faso
- Niger vs Malawi
- Niger vs Zambia
- Niger vs Chad
- Niger vs Somalia
- Niger vs Senegal
- Niger vs Zimbabwe
- Niger vs Guinea
- Niger vs Benin
- Niger vs Rwanda
- Niger vs Burundi
- Niger vs South Sudan
- Niger vs Libya
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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