Afghanistan vs Egypt

Afghanistan vs Egypt: Military spending per person

Military spending per person: $7 in Afghanistan in 2021 and $21 in Egypt in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2021 the value was higher in Egypt, by $40, or 6.69 times that in Afghanistan.

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US dollars per person · SIPRI

Afghanistan vs Egypt: Military spending per personMilitary spending per person: $7 in Afghanistan in 2021 and $21 in Egypt in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2021 the value was higher in Egypt, by $40, or 6.69 times that in Afghanistan.
AfghanistanEgyptSIPRI estimateHighly uncertain

What the numbers say

  • Egypt has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2004.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearAfghanistanEgypt
2025–$21
2024–$21
2023–$28
2022–$42
2021$7$47
2020$7$42
2019$6$35
2018$5$30
2017$5$27
2016$5$45
2015$6$56
2014$8$53
2013$7$46
2012$8$49
2011$11$50
2010$11$50
2009$9$46
2008$9$44
2007$8$40
2006$5$36
2005$5$33
2004$5$30
2003–$31
2002–$38
2001–$38
2000–$36
1999–$35
1998–$34
1997–$33
1996–$32
1995–$30
1994–$27
1993–$25
1992–$23
1991–$23
1990–$39
1989–$63
1988–$82
  • Estimate
  • Highly uncertain

Each country on its own

Good to know

  • What the country spends on its armed forces and defence for each person living there, in US dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation.
  • Source: Information from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Military Expenditure Database, https://doi.org/10.55163/CQGC9685.
  • Marked points are SIPRI’s own: a dot where it gives the figure as its estimate, a ring where it calls the figure highly uncertain.
  • Ranks count the 151 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.

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