Liberia

Liberia: Country Intelligence Brief

Liberia's economy was valued at $4.78 billion in 2024, according to World Bank WDI figures, with GDP per capita at $851.50 the same year against a population of 5,612,817. Foreign reserves stood at $367.71 million in 2024, per the same World Bank WDI series, and the IMF World Economic Outlook puts government debt at 53.8% of GDP in 2026.

Military capacity

SIPRI's Milex data put military expenditure at $44.21 million in 2025, equivalent to 0.853% of GDP on SIPRI's own GDP series for that year rather than the World Bank GDP figure cited above. The Correlates of War National Material Capabilities dataset recorded 2,000 active-duty personnel in 2022 and assigned Liberia a Composite Index of National Capability (CINC) score of 0.00026225336 for the same year. Both figures come from the 2022 COW release and are not refreshed elsewhere in this bundle.

Governance

V-Dem v15's 2025 indicators score the electoral democracy index at 0.597 and the liberal democracy index at 0.417, with the liberal democracy figure running below the electoral democracy figure. The same release puts state capacity at 0.36. These are reported as supplied, with no additional narrative detail or prior-year comparison point in the bundle.

Energy

Our World in Data's energy series records primary energy supply of 0.0106 exajoules in 2023 and electricity generation of 0.57 terawatt-hours in 2024. Oil and gas production are both listed at 0.0 terawatt-hours, dated to 2016 for both series.

Data gaps

The oil and gas production entries are nearly a decade older than the rest of the bundle, dated 2016 against 2023–2025 figures elsewhere, and both show zero output; that vintage should be weighed before treating the reading as current. Governance indicators are single-year (2025), so no trend is available from this bundle. No trade, external-debt-composition, or force-structure detail beyond personnel count and CINC is supplied.

Sources: World Bank WDI; IMF World Economic Outlook; SIPRI Milex; Correlates of War National Material Capabilities; V-Dem v15; Our World in Data (Energy).