Actors

United States has the largest economy and United States the biggest military budget among 43 actors

The G20, the UN Security Council's five, and every country the desk is writing about · each column is on one scale · latest year available per figure · data fetched 2026-10-05

Actor
United States United States342M$30.8T$90k23.3k TWh$997B
China China1.4B$19.5T$13.9k31.2k TWh$314B
Germany Germany83.5M$5.1T$60.5k295 TWh$88.5B
Japan Japan123M$4.4T$36k44 TWh$55.3B
United Kingdom United Kingdom69.5M$4T$57.6k662 TWh$81.8B
India India1.5B$4T$2.7k5.7k TWh$86.1B
France France68.7M$3.4T$49k11 TWh$64.7B
Russia Russia144M$2.6T$17.5k15k TWh$149B
Italy Italy58.9M$2.6T$43.3k80 TWh$38B
Canada Canada41.7M$2.3T$55.7k5.6k TWh$29.3B
Brazil Brazil213M$2.3T$10.7k2.4k TWh$20.9B
South Korea South Korea51.7M$1.9T$36.2k4.8 TWh$47.6B
Mexico Mexico132M$1.8T$13.9k1.5k TWh$16.7B
Australia Australia27.6M$1.8T$65.1k5k TWh$33.8B
Turkey Turkey85.9M$1.6T$18.6k243 TWh$25B
Indonesia Indonesia286M$1.4T$5.1k5.8k TWh$11B
Netherlands Netherlands18.1M$1.3T$73.7k95 TWh$23.2B
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia37M$1.3T$34.5k7.1k TWh$80.3B
Poland Poland36.4M$1T$28.4k434 TWh$38B
Ireland Ireland5.5M$722B$132k32 TWh$1.3B
Argentina Argentina45.9M$683B$14.9k1.1k TWh$4.2B
Israel Israel10.1M$611B$60.3k215 TWh$46.5B
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates11.5M$552B$50.3k2.7k TWh$22.8B
Philippines Philippines117M$487B$4.2k124 TWh$6.1B
South Africa South Africa64.7M$427B$6.6k1.6k TWh$2.8B
Egypt Egypt118M$365B$3.1k837 TWh$2.4B
Iran Iran92.4M$363B$3.9k5.4k TWh$7.9B
Finland Finland5.6M$317B$56.1k0.0 TWh$7B
Iraq Iraq47M$254B$5.4k2.6k TWh$6.2B
Qatar Qatar3M$216B$72.5k2.7k TWh$15.4B
Ukraine Ukraine39M$214B$5.9k315 TWh$64.7B
Ethiopia Ethiopia135M$126B$9330.0 TWh$922M
Lithuania Lithuania2.9M$95.2B$33k1.3 TWh$2.6B
Sudan Sudan51.7M$60.2B$1.2k22 TWh$375M
Latvia Latvia1.8M$48.6B$26.3k0.0 TWh$1.4B
Syria Syria25.6M$23.7B$1.1k47 TWh$2.5B
Yemen Yemen41.8M$21.6B$63426 TWh$1.7B
Palestine Palestine5.4M$17.2B$3.2k0.0 TWh—
Somalia Somalia19.7M$13B$6610.0 TWh$202M
Liechtenstein Liechtenstein41k$8.9B$220k——
Suriname Suriname640k$4.5B$7.1k12 TWh—
Eritrea Eritrea3.6M$2.1B$6890.0 TWh$182M
North Korea North Korea26.6M——234 TWh$1.6B

Sources: World Bank (CC BY 4.0, military figures from SIPRI), Our World in Data energy dataset (CC BY 4.0), Wikidata (CC0). Each actor's page credits its sources with the years used.