Sudan
Sudan in numbers
38 measures of 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 spending0.93% of GDP in 2021
- Military spending in US dollars$2.77B in 2021
- Military spending per person$8 in 2021
- Military share of state spending9.5% of government spending in 2021
- Armed forces personnel144,000 people in 2020
- National power0.37% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.34% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports57 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports11 million TIV in 2013
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Sudan with…
- Sudan vs India
- Sudan vs China
- Sudan vs United States
- Sudan vs Indonesia
- Sudan vs Pakistan
- Sudan vs Nigeria
- Sudan vs Brazil
- Sudan vs Bangladesh
- Sudan vs Russia
- Sudan vs Ethiopia
- Sudan vs Mexico
- Sudan vs Japan
- Sudan vs Egypt
- Sudan vs Philippines
- Sudan vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Sudan vs Vietnam
- Sudan vs Iran
- Sudan vs Türkiye
- Sudan vs Germany
- Sudan vs Thailand
- Sudan vs Tanzania
- Sudan vs United Kingdom
- Sudan vs France
- Sudan vs South Africa
- Sudan vs Italy
- Sudan vs Kenya
- Sudan vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Sudan vs Colombia
- Sudan vs South Korea
- Sudan vs Uganda
- Sudan vs Spain
- Sudan vs Argentina
- Sudan vs Canada
- Sudan vs Angola
- Sudan vs Saudi Arabia
- Sudan vs Poland
- Sudan vs Mozambique
- Sudan vs Ghana
- Sudan vs Madagascar
- Sudan vs Côte d’Ivoire
- Sudan vs Cameroon
- Sudan vs Niger
- Sudan vs Australia
- Sudan vs Mali
- Sudan vs Burkina Faso
- Sudan vs Malawi
- Sudan vs Zambia
- Sudan vs Chad
- Sudan vs Somalia
- Sudan vs Senegal
- Sudan vs Netherlands
- Sudan vs Zimbabwe
- Sudan vs Guinea
- Sudan vs Benin
- Sudan vs Rwanda
- Sudan vs Burundi
- Sudan vs South Sudan
- Sudan vs Belgium
- Sudan vs United Arab Emirates
- Sudan vs Sweden
- Sudan vs Israel
- Sudan vs Austria
- Sudan vs Switzerland
- Sudan vs Libya
- Sudan vs Singapore
- Sudan vs Central African Republic
- Sudan vs Ireland
- Sudan vs Eritrea
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, 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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