Palau

Palau: Country Brief

The dataset for Palau is limited to basic economic indicators, fiscal position and a single capability metric. No governance, energy, or reserves data is present.

Economy

Palau's gross domestic product was $276,733,062.74 in 2023, per the World Bank's World Development Indicators (WDI). GDP per capita was $15,610.82 the same year, also per World Bank WDI. Population stood at 17,695 in 2024, per World Bank WDI. Government debt stood at 56.7% of GDP, per the IMF's World Economic Outlook (WEO), carried for 2026.

Security and capability

The Correlates of War (COW) National Material Capabilities dataset records zero active military personnel for Palau in 2022, and assigns it a Composite Index of National Capability (CINC) score of 4.5660994e-07 for the same year — consistent with a state that COW tracks as having no standing armed force among the capabilities it measures.

Data gaps

No governance indicators (V-Dem or otherwise), no SIPRI military-expenditure data, no foreign-exchange reserves figure, and no energy data of any kind are present in this bundle for Palau.

Sources: World Bank WDI; IMF WEO; Correlates of War National Material Capabilities.