Philippines
Philippines in numbers
39 measures of Philippines 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 spending1.3% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$6.3B in 2025
- Military spending per person$55 in 2025
- Military share of state spending5.4% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel157,000 people in 2020
- National power0.68% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.37% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports846 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports4 million TIV in 2007
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Philippines with…
- Philippines vs India
- Philippines vs China
- Philippines vs United States
- Philippines vs Indonesia
- Philippines vs Pakistan
- Philippines vs Nigeria
- Philippines vs Brazil
- Philippines vs Bangladesh
- Philippines vs Russia
- Philippines vs Ethiopia
- Philippines vs Mexico
- Philippines vs Japan
- Philippines vs Egypt
- Philippines vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Philippines vs Vietnam
- Philippines vs Iran
- Philippines vs Türkiye
- Philippines vs Germany
- Philippines vs Thailand
- Philippines vs Tanzania
- Philippines vs United Kingdom
- Philippines vs France
- Philippines vs South Africa
- Philippines vs Italy
- Philippines vs Kenya
- Philippines vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Philippines vs Colombia
- Philippines vs South Korea
- Philippines vs Sudan
- Philippines vs Spain
- Philippines vs Argentina
- Philippines vs Canada
- Philippines vs Saudi Arabia
- Philippines vs Poland
- Philippines vs Malaysia
- Philippines vs Australia
- Philippines vs North Korea
- Philippines vs Netherlands
- Philippines vs Cambodia
- Philippines vs Belgium
- Philippines vs United Arab Emirates
- Philippines vs Papua New Guinea
- Philippines vs Sweden
- Philippines vs Israel
- Philippines vs Austria
- Philippines vs Switzerland
- Philippines vs Singapore
- Philippines 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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