Pakistan
Pakistan in numbers
39 measures of Pakistan 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 spending2.91% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$11.5B in 2025
- Military spending per person$47 in 2025
- Military share of state spending13.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel943,000 people in 2020
- National power1.77% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.25% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports706 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports127 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Pakistan with…
- Pakistan vs India
- Pakistan vs China
- Pakistan vs United States
- Pakistan vs Indonesia
- Pakistan vs Nigeria
- Pakistan vs Brazil
- Pakistan vs Bangladesh
- Pakistan vs Russia
- Pakistan vs Ethiopia
- Pakistan vs Mexico
- Pakistan vs Japan
- Pakistan vs Egypt
- Pakistan vs Philippines
- Pakistan vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Pakistan vs Vietnam
- Pakistan vs Iran
- Pakistan vs Türkiye
- Pakistan vs Germany
- Pakistan vs Thailand
- Pakistan vs Tanzania
- Pakistan vs United Kingdom
- Pakistan vs France
- Pakistan vs South Africa
- Pakistan vs Italy
- Pakistan vs Kenya
- Pakistan vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Pakistan vs Colombia
- Pakistan vs South Korea
- Pakistan vs Sudan
- Pakistan vs Spain
- Pakistan vs Algeria
- Pakistan vs Iraq
- Pakistan vs Argentina
- Pakistan vs Afghanistan
- Pakistan vs Yemen
- Pakistan vs Canada
- Pakistan vs Morocco
- Pakistan vs Saudi Arabia
- Pakistan vs Poland
- Pakistan vs Australia
- Pakistan vs Syria
- Pakistan vs Netherlands
- Pakistan vs Tunisia
- Pakistan vs Belgium
- Pakistan vs Jordan
- Pakistan vs United Arab Emirates
- Pakistan vs Sweden
- Pakistan vs Israel
- Pakistan vs Austria
- Pakistan vs Switzerland
- Pakistan vs Singapore
- Pakistan 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.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time