Algeria vs United Arab Emirates

Algeria vs United Arab Emirates: Military spending per person

Military spending per person: $540 in Algeria in 2025 and $2,840 in United Arab Emirates in 2014, by SIPRI estimates. In 2014 the value was higher in United Arab Emirates, by $2,534, or 9.29 times that in Algeria.

US dollars per person · SIPRI

Algeria vs United Arab Emirates: Military spending per personMilitary spending per person: $540 in Algeria in 2025 and $2,840 in United Arab Emirates in 2014, by SIPRI estimates. In 2014 the value was higher in United Arab Emirates, by $2,534, or 9.29 times that in Algeria.
AlgeriaUnited Arab EmiratesSIPRI estimateHighly uncertain

What the numbers say

  • United Arab Emirates has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1997.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearAlgeriaUnited Arab Emirates
2025$540–
2024$469–
2023$399–
2022$203–
2021$205–
2020$222–
2019$240–
2018$228–
2017$244–
2016$253–
2015$263–
2014$306$2,840
2013$267$3,080
2012$250$2,590
2011$237$2,719
2010$158$2,566
2009$150$2,099
2008$150$1,924
2007$116$1,616
2006$93$1,498
2005$89$1,452
2004$87$1,581
2003$69$1,432
2002$67$1,395
2001$67$1,607
2000$61$1,739
1999$60$1,343
1998$64$1,370
1997$60$1,232
1996$51–
1995$44–
1994$48–
1993$47–
1992$40–
1991$22–
1990$36–
1989$35–
1988$43–
  • 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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