Brazil vs Venezuela
Brazil vs Venezuela: Military spending per person
Military spending per person: $113 in Brazil in 2025 and $69 in Venezuela in 2017, by SIPRI estimates. In 2017 the value was higher in Brazil, by $74, or 2.08 times that in Venezuela.
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- Brazil has been higher since 2014, when it overtook Venezuela.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Brazil | Venezuela |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $113 | – |
| 2024 | $99 | – |
| 2023 | $103 | – |
| 2022 | $98 | – |
| 2021 | $92 | – |
| 2020 | $94 | – |
| 2019 | $125 | – |
| 2018 | $137 | – |
| 2017 | $144 | $69 |
| 2016 | $120 | $7 |
| 2015 | $123 | $11 |
| 2014 | $164 | $52 |
| 2013 | $166 | $209 |
| 2012 | $173 | $174 |
| 2011 | $190 | $123 |
| 2010 | $176 | $139 |
| 2009 | $134 | $144 |
| 2008 | $129 | $203 |
| 2007 | $109 | $159 |
| 2006 | $88 | $134 |
| 2005 | $74 | $100 |
| 2004 | $54 | $55 |
| 2003 | $47 | $38 |
| 2002 | $54 | $43 |
| 2001 | $62 | $77 |
| 2000 | $66 | $74 |
| 1999 | $58 | $59 |
| 1998 | $86 | $62 |
| 1997 | $84 | $67 |
| 1996 | $86 | $33 |
| 1995 | $89 | $55 |
| 1994 | $67 | $44 |
| 1993 | $46 | $61 |
| 1992 | $33 | $48 |
| 1991 | $45 | $49 |
| 1990 | $62 | $38 |
| 1989 | $60 | $63 |
| 1988 | $41 | $59 |
- 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.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time
Brazil vs Venezuela
Health
- Life expectancyBrazil: 75.9 years in 2023Venezuela: 72.5 years in 2023
- Child mortalityBrazil: 1.4 per 100 live births in 2024Venezuela: 2.4 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityBrazil: 12.1 per 1,000 live births in 2023Venezuela: 15.7 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionBrazil: 3.3% in 2017Venezuela: 2.82% in 2017
- Suicide rateBrazil: 6.1 per 100,000 people in 2017Venezuela: 8.7 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationBrazil: 211 million people in 2023Venezuela: 28.3 million people in 2023
- Population growthBrazil: 0.41% a year in 2023Venezuela: 0.35% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateBrazil: 1.62 births per woman in 2023Venezuela: 2.08 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationBrazil: 88.2% in 2025Venezuela: 89.3% in 2025
- Median ageBrazil: 33.9 years in 2023Venezuela: 29 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overBrazil: 10.6% in 2023Venezuela: 9.3% in 2023
- Net migration rateBrazil: -1.1 per 1,000 people in 2023Venezuela: -4 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingBrazil: 1.05% of GDP in 2025Venezuela: 2.23% of GDP in 2017
- Armed forces personnelBrazil: 762,000 people in 2020Venezuela: 343,000 people in 2020
- National powerBrazil: 2.01% of world capability in 2022Venezuela: 0.34% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersBrazil: 0.76% of the labour force in 2020Venezuela: 3.47% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsBrazil: 462 million TIV in 2025Venezuela: 98 million TIV in 2023
- Arms exportsBrazil: 153 million TIV in 2025Venezuela: 40 million TIV in 2009