Russia
Russia in numbers
39 measures of Russia 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 spending7.5% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$158B in 2025
- Military spending per person$1,318 in 2025
- Military share of state spending19.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel1.45 million people in 2020
- National power3.82% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.98% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports129 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports1.94 billion TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Russia with…
- Russia vs India
- Russia vs China
- Russia vs United States
- Russia vs Indonesia
- Russia vs Pakistan
- Russia vs Nigeria
- Russia vs Brazil
- Russia vs Bangladesh
- Russia vs Ethiopia
- Russia vs Mexico
- Russia vs Japan
- Russia vs Egypt
- Russia vs Philippines
- Russia vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Russia vs Vietnam
- Russia vs Iran
- Russia vs Türkiye
- Russia vs Germany
- Russia vs Thailand
- Russia vs Tanzania
- Russia vs United Kingdom
- Russia vs France
- Russia vs South Africa
- Russia vs Italy
- Russia vs Kenya
- Russia vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Russia vs Colombia
- Russia vs South Korea
- Russia vs Sudan
- Russia vs Spain
- Russia vs Argentina
- Russia vs Canada
- Russia vs Ukraine
- Russia vs Uzbekistan
- Russia vs Saudi Arabia
- Russia vs Poland
- Russia vs Australia
- Russia vs North Korea
- Russia vs Kazakhstan
- Russia vs Romania
- Russia vs Netherlands
- Russia vs Belgium
- Russia vs United Arab Emirates
- Russia vs Czechia
- Russia vs Portugal
- Russia vs Tajikistan
- Russia vs Sweden
- Russia vs Greece
- Russia vs Azerbaijan
- Russia vs Israel
- Russia vs Austria
- Russia vs Switzerland
- Russia vs Belarus
- Russia vs Singapore
- Russia vs Finland
- Russia vs Norway
- Russia vs Ireland
- Russia vs Georgia
- Russia vs Mongolia
- Russia vs Lithuania
- Russia vs Latvia
- Russia vs Estonia
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