Comoros

Comoros: Small Economy, Badly Dated Military Personnel Figures

Comoros recorded $1.44 billion in gross domestic product for 2024, per World Bank WDI figures, with per-capita output of $1,662.76 the same year and a population of 866,628. Government debt stood at 32.4 percent of GDP in IMF WEO figures for 2026, and reserves were recorded at $323.95 million per World Bank WDI data for 2024.

Military posture

The Correlates of War National Material Capabilities dataset recorded 1,000 active-duty personnel for Comoros, but that figure carries a 1992 date — far older than any other series in this bundle. The same dataset assigned Comoros a Composite Index of National Capability (CINC) score of 5.4834087e-05 for 2022, a measure that aggregates demographic, industrial and military weight into a single index of relative state power. No SIPRI military-expenditure figures appear in this bundle, so defense spending and its share of GDP cannot be assessed here.

Governance

V-Dem v15's 2025 indicators show an electoral democracy index of 0.293 and a liberal democracy index of 0.132, pointing to a political system with limited competitive content. The state capacity index stood at 0.175 for the same year, a low reading relative to the index's own range.

Energy

Primary energy consumption totaled 0.0064 exajoules in 2023, per Our World in Data's energy series, and electricity generation reached 0.14 terawatt-hours in 2023. Both oil and gas production were recorded at zero terawatt-hours, though that reading carries a 2016 date.

Data gaps

The personnel figure of 1,000 active-duty troops is severely stale, carrying a 1992 date, markedly older than the 2022 date on the CINC score drawn from the same dataset, and should not be treated as a reliable current count. No SIPRI milex or milex-to-GDP figures exist in this bundle, meaning defense spending cannot be assessed here. The oil and gas production figures, dated 2016, are also older than the rest of the energy series. The economic figures, dated 2024 and 2026, and the governance indices, dated 2025, otherwise carry recent reference years with no further gaps flagged.

Sources: World Bank WDI, IMF WEO, COW NMC, V-Dem v15, Our World in Data (Energy).