Somalia
Somalia in numbers
34 measures of Somalia 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 spending1.54% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$193M in 2025
- Military spending per person$10 in 2025
- Military share of state spending20.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel14,000 people in 2020
- National power0.13% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.47% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports2 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Somalia with…
- Somalia vs Nigeria
- Somalia vs Ethiopia
- Somalia vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Somalia vs Tanzania
- Somalia vs South Africa
- Somalia vs Kenya
- Somalia vs Sudan
- Somalia vs Uganda
- Somalia vs Angola
- Somalia vs Mozambique
- Somalia vs Ghana
- Somalia vs Madagascar
- Somalia vs Côte d’Ivoire
- Somalia vs Cameroon
- Somalia vs Niger
- Somalia vs Mali
- Somalia vs Burkina Faso
- Somalia vs Malawi
- Somalia vs Zambia
- Somalia vs Chad
- Somalia vs Senegal
- Somalia vs Zimbabwe
- Somalia vs Guinea
- Somalia vs Benin
- Somalia vs Rwanda
- Somalia vs Burundi
- Somalia vs South Sudan
- Somalia vs Djibouti
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, 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