United States
United States in numbers
38 measures of United States from 1789 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 spending3.12% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$929B in 2025
- Military spending per person$2,755 in 2025
- Military share of state spending8.3% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel1.4 million people in 2020
- National power12.36% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.84% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports745 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports14 billion TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare United States with…
- United States vs India
- United States vs China
- United States vs Indonesia
- United States vs Pakistan
- United States vs Nigeria
- United States vs Brazil
- United States vs Bangladesh
- United States vs Russia
- United States vs Ethiopia
- United States vs Mexico
- United States vs Japan
- United States vs Egypt
- United States vs Philippines
- United States vs Congo - Kinshasa
- United States vs Vietnam
- United States vs Iran
- United States vs Türkiye
- United States vs Germany
- United States vs Thailand
- United States vs Tanzania
- United States vs United Kingdom
- United States vs France
- United States vs South Africa
- United States vs Italy
- United States vs Kenya
- United States vs Myanmar (Burma)
- United States vs Colombia
- United States vs South Korea
- United States vs Sudan
- United States vs Spain
- United States vs Argentina
- United States vs Canada
- United States vs Saudi Arabia
- United States vs Poland
- United States vs Australia
- United States vs Netherlands
- United States vs Belgium
- United States vs United Arab Emirates
- United States vs Cuba
- United States vs Sweden
- United States vs Israel
- United States vs Austria
- United States vs Switzerland
- United States vs Singapore
- United States vs Ireland
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, 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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