WORLD PULSE
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The world, indicator by indicator

21 indicators · 217 countries · 156,366 observations. Each indicator is read at the most recent year that still has near-complete coverage. Neither rule works alone: child stunting's newest year has six reporters, and internet use is best covered in 1990, when nearly every country reported it as zero.

Military expenditure (% of GDP)

read at 2024 · 2 years old

Military expenditure as a share of gross domestic product, on the SIPRI definition.

World median

1.59% of GDP

Countries reporting

147/ 217

Observations, all years

7.9k

The median is computed across the 147 countries reporting in 2024 — arithmetic over real values, not a published figure. This indicator has no better end — it is reported as context, not as a score.

How the world is spread · 2024

55 countries between 0.07 and 1.30 % of GDP58 countries between 1.30 and 2.53 % of GDP19 countries between 2.53 and 3.76 % of GDP6 countries between 3.76 and 4.98 % of GDP3 countries between 4.98 and 6.21 % of GDP3 countries between 6.21 and 7.44 % of GDP1 country between 7.44 and 8.67 % of GDP1 country between 8.67 and 9.90 % of GDP1 country between 33.25 and 34.48 % of GDPMEDIAN0.0734.48
147 countries reporting · each bar is a count of countries, not a value · Pakistan 2.67 % of GDP

How much of the world was measured

ALL 2171960: 59 of 217 countries reported1961: 68 of 217 countries reported1962: 69 of 217 countries reported1963: 71 of 217 countries reported1964: 74 of 217 countries reported1965: 76 of 217 countries reported1966: 77 of 217 countries reported1967: 77 of 217 countries reported1968: 83 of 217 countries reported1969: 82 of 217 countries reported1970: 89 of 217 countries reported1971: 91 of 217 countries reported1972: 91 of 217 countries reported1973: 96 of 217 countries reported1974: 95 of 217 countries reported1975: 96 of 217 countries reported1976: 100 of 217 countries reported1977: 104 of 217 countries reported1978: 103 of 217 countries reported1979: 105 of 217 countries reported1980: 110 of 217 countries reported1981: 111 of 217 countries reported1982: 106 of 217 countries reported1983: 106 of 217 countries reported1984: 109 of 217 countries reported1985: 115 of 217 countries reported1986: 112 of 217 countries reported1987: 117 of 217 countries reported1988: 115 of 217 countries reported1989: 115 of 217 countries reported1990: 117 of 217 countries reported1991: 119 of 217 countries reported1992: 129 of 217 countries reported1993: 142 of 217 countries reported1994: 143 of 217 countries reported1995: 139 of 217 countries reported1996: 141 of 217 countries reported1997: 142 of 217 countries reported1998: 137 of 217 countries reported1999: 140 of 217 countries reported2000: 142 of 217 countries reported2001: 142 of 217 countries reported2002: 145 of 217 countries reported2003: 149 of 217 countries reported2004: 151 of 217 countries reported2005: 152 of 217 countries reported2006: 147 of 217 countries reported2007: 145 of 217 countries reported2008: 152 of 217 countries reported2009: 149 of 217 countries reported2010: 148 of 217 countries reported2011: 145 of 217 countries reported2012: 151 of 217 countries reported2013: 154 of 217 countries reported2014: 155 of 217 countries reported2015: 151 of 217 countries reported2016: 152 of 217 countries reported2017: 152 of 217 countries reported2018: 154 of 217 countries reported2019: 151 of 217 countries reported2020: 151 of 217 countries reported2021: 152 of 217 countries reported2022: 151 of 217 countries reported2023: 150 of 217 countries reported2024: 147 of 217 countries reported19602024
Best year 2014 with 155 of 217 · most recent 2024 with 147. A short bar means the world did not measure, not that the value fell.

Highest · 2024

Ukraine34.48
Israel8.78
Algeria7.97
Saudi Arabia7.30
Russian Federation7.05
Myanmar6.79
Oman5.59
Armenia5.48

Lowest · 2024

Haiti0.07
Mauritius0.15
Ireland0.24
Papua New Guinea0.31
Zimbabwe0.35
Guatemala0.37
Ghana0.38
Kazakhstan0.43

Read with care

  • · Deliberately unscored. What counts as an appropriate level is a political judgement, not a measurement, so this site does not colour it good or bad.
  • · Definitions of military spending vary, and some categories (pensions, paramilitary forces) are treated inconsistently between countries.

What we can actually see

Coverage is wildly uneven, and that unevenness is a finding rather than a footnote. Life expectancy is near-universal; the survey-based indicators are not. Sorted by how much of the world reports at all.

IndicatorCountriesYearsRead atObservations
Life expectancy217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,071
Fertility rate217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,073
Population217 / 2171960–20252025 (217)14,292
Electricity access216 / 2171990–20242024 (215)6,747
GDP per capita214 / 2171960–20252025 (186)11,764
Internet use213 / 2171990–20252024 (182)6,224
Primary enrolment209 / 2171970–20252023 (166)7,495
GDP per capita (PPP)203 / 2171990–20252025 (185)7,020
Education spending203 / 2171970–20252022 (164)5,124
CO₂ per person203 / 2171970–20242024 (203)11,165
Under-5 mortality196 / 2171960–20242024 (196)11,861
Maternal mortality194 / 2171985–20232023 (194)7,566
Inflation193 / 2171960–20252025 (165)9,136
Health spending193 / 2172000–20242023 (192)4,562
Unemployment187 / 2171991–20252025 (182)6,531
Extreme poverty171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Income inequality (Gini)171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Adult literacy170 / 2171970–20242022 (45)1,121
Military spending164 / 2171960–20242024 (147)7,909
Child stunting163 / 2171983–20242018 (48)1,129
Safe drinking water151 / 2172000–20242024 (148)3,716

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Nothing here is interpolated — where a country never reported, it is absent rather than estimated. Browse every country →