United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates in numbers
38 measures of United Arab Emirates 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 spending5.64% of GDP in 2014
- Military spending in US dollars$27.8B in 2014
- Military spending per person$2,840 in 2014
- Military share of state spending17% of government spending in 2014
- Armed forces personnel63,000 people in 2020
- National power0.47% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.02% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports868 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports33 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare United Arab Emirates with…
- United Arab Emirates vs India
- United Arab Emirates vs China
- United Arab Emirates vs United States
- United Arab Emirates vs Indonesia
- United Arab Emirates vs Pakistan
- United Arab Emirates vs Nigeria
- United Arab Emirates vs Brazil
- United Arab Emirates vs Bangladesh
- United Arab Emirates vs Russia
- United Arab Emirates vs Ethiopia
- United Arab Emirates vs Mexico
- United Arab Emirates vs Japan
- United Arab Emirates vs Egypt
- United Arab Emirates vs Philippines
- United Arab Emirates vs Congo - Kinshasa
- United Arab Emirates vs Vietnam
- United Arab Emirates vs Iran
- United Arab Emirates vs Türkiye
- United Arab Emirates vs Germany
- United Arab Emirates vs Thailand
- United Arab Emirates vs Tanzania
- United Arab Emirates vs United Kingdom
- United Arab Emirates vs France
- United Arab Emirates vs South Africa
- United Arab Emirates vs Italy
- United Arab Emirates vs Kenya
- United Arab Emirates vs Myanmar (Burma)
- United Arab Emirates vs Colombia
- United Arab Emirates vs South Korea
- United Arab Emirates vs Sudan
- United Arab Emirates vs Spain
- United Arab Emirates vs Algeria
- United Arab Emirates vs Iraq
- United Arab Emirates vs Argentina
- United Arab Emirates vs Afghanistan
- United Arab Emirates vs Yemen
- United Arab Emirates vs Canada
- United Arab Emirates vs Morocco
- United Arab Emirates vs Saudi Arabia
- United Arab Emirates vs Poland
- United Arab Emirates vs Australia
- United Arab Emirates vs Syria
- United Arab Emirates vs Netherlands
- United Arab Emirates vs Tunisia
- United Arab Emirates vs Belgium
- United Arab Emirates vs Jordan
- United Arab Emirates vs Sweden
- United Arab Emirates vs Israel
- United Arab Emirates vs Austria
- United Arab Emirates vs Switzerland
- United Arab Emirates vs Singapore
- United Arab Emirates vs Oman
- United Arab Emirates vs Ireland
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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