Singapore
Singapore in numbers
38 measures of Singapore 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 spending3.05% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$16.9B in 2025
- Military spending per person$2,980 in 2025
- Military share of state spending18% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel59,000 people in 2020
- National power0.25% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.72% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports57 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports79 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Singapore with…
- Singapore vs India
- Singapore vs China
- Singapore vs United States
- Singapore vs Indonesia
- Singapore vs Pakistan
- Singapore vs Nigeria
- Singapore vs Brazil
- Singapore vs Bangladesh
- Singapore vs Russia
- Singapore vs Ethiopia
- Singapore vs Mexico
- Singapore vs Japan
- Singapore vs Egypt
- Singapore vs Philippines
- Singapore vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Singapore vs Vietnam
- Singapore vs Iran
- Singapore vs Türkiye
- Singapore vs Germany
- Singapore vs Thailand
- Singapore vs Tanzania
- Singapore vs United Kingdom
- Singapore vs France
- Singapore vs South Africa
- Singapore vs Italy
- Singapore vs Kenya
- Singapore vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Singapore vs Colombia
- Singapore vs South Korea
- Singapore vs Sudan
- Singapore vs Spain
- Singapore vs Argentina
- Singapore vs Canada
- Singapore vs Saudi Arabia
- Singapore vs Poland
- Singapore vs Australia
- Singapore vs Netherlands
- Singapore vs Belgium
- Singapore vs United Arab Emirates
- Singapore vs Sweden
- Singapore vs Israel
- Singapore vs Austria
- Singapore vs Switzerland
- Singapore vs Ireland
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, 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