South Sudan
South Sudan in numbers
36 measures of South Sudan 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 spending3.43% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$103M in 2025
- Military spending per person$15 in 2025
- Military share of state spending18.4% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel53,000 people in 2020
- National power0.08% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.18% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports10 million TIV in 2022
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare South Sudan with…
- South Sudan vs Nigeria
- South Sudan vs Ethiopia
- South Sudan vs Congo - Kinshasa
- South Sudan vs Tanzania
- South Sudan vs South Africa
- South Sudan vs Kenya
- South Sudan vs Sudan
- South Sudan vs Uganda
- South Sudan vs Angola
- South Sudan vs Mozambique
- South Sudan vs Ghana
- South Sudan vs Madagascar
- South Sudan vs Côte d’Ivoire
- South Sudan vs Cameroon
- South Sudan vs Niger
- South Sudan vs Mali
- South Sudan vs Burkina Faso
- South Sudan vs Malawi
- South Sudan vs Zambia
- South Sudan vs Chad
- South Sudan vs Somalia
- South Sudan vs Senegal
- South Sudan vs Zimbabwe
- South Sudan vs Guinea
- South Sudan vs Benin
- South Sudan vs Rwanda
- South Sudan vs Burundi
- South Sudan vs Central African Republic
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, 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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