Argentina vs United Arab Emirates

Argentina vs United Arab Emirates: Military spending per person

Military spending per person: $85 in Argentina 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 $2,724, or 24 times that in Argentina.

US dollars per person · SIPRI

Argentina vs United Arab Emirates: Military spending per personMilitary spending per person: $85 in Argentina 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 $2,724, or 24 times that in Argentina.
ArgentinaUnited 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

YearArgentinaUnited Arab Emirates
2025$85–
2024$92–
2023$107–
2022$96–
2021$68–
2020$63–
2019$70–
2018$86–
2017$124–
2016$103–
2015$127–
2014$116$2,840
2013$121$3,080
2012$109$2,590
2011$98$2,719
2010$85$2,566
2009$73$2,099
2008$69$1,924
2007$58$1,616
2006$47$1,498
2005$44$1,452
2004$38$1,581
2003$36$1,432
2002$29$1,395
2001$85$1,607
2000$88$1,739
1999$95$1,343
1998$94$1,370
1997$93$1,232
1996$96–
1995$109–
1994$109–
1993$99–
1992$97–
1991$87–
1990$63–
1989$45–
1988$86–
  • 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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