Colombia vs United Arab Emirates: Military share of state spending

Military share of state spending: 9.3% of government spending in Colombia in 2025 and 17% of government spending in United Arab Emirates in 2014, by SIPRI estimates. In 2014 the value was higher in United Arab Emirates, by 7.1 percentage points, or 1.71 times that in Colombia.

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% of government spending · SIPRI

ColombiaUnited Arab EmiratesSIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

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

Every year

% of government spending · SIPRI

Year	Colombia	United Arab Emirates
2025	9.3	–
2024	9.6	–
2023	8.4	–
2022	8.2	–
2021	9.3	–
2020	10.5	–
2019	9.6	–
2018	8.8	–
2017	10.9	–
2016	10.2	–
2015	9.9	–
2014	9.9	17
2013	10.9	19.9
2012	10.9	17.4
2011	10.2	17.6
2010	12	18.7
2009	12.6	15.6
2008	13.2	16.7
2007	11.7	18.6
2006	11.6	20.6
2005	13	23.2
2004	13.1	26
2003	12.5	23.4
2002	12.3	22.9
2001	12.2	22.3
2000	11.5	26.2
1999	11.1	20.7
1998	10.9	20.6
1997	9	19.2
1996	14.8	–
1995	10.7	–
1994	10.2	–
1993	10.8	–
1992	9.7	–
1991	9	–
1990	9.1	–
1989	8.9	–
1988	10.9	–

Estimate

Each country on its own

Good to know

The part of everything the government spends that goes on its armed forces and defence, by SIPRI’s count.
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 150 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.

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Colombia vs United Arab Emirates

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Deaths in conflictsColombia: 109 deaths in 2022United Arab Emirates: 3 deaths in 2022