Cuba vs Ecuador

Cuba vs Ecuador: Military spending per person

Military spending per person: $11 in Cuba in 2018 and $150 in Ecuador in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2018 the value was higher in Ecuador, by $139, or 13 times that in Cuba.

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US dollars per person · SIPRI

Cuba vs Ecuador: Military spending per personMilitary spending per person: $11 in Cuba in 2018 and $150 in Ecuador in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2018 the value was higher in Ecuador, by $139, or 13 times that in Cuba.
CubaEcuadorSIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • Ecuador has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2003.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearCubaEcuador
2025–$150
2024–$160
2023–$150
2022–$146
2021–$137
2020–$135
2019–$136
2018$11$151
2017$11$148
2016$11$153
2015$11$161
2014$11$175
2013$11$174
2012$11$168
2011$8$161
2010$8$140
2009$8$133
2008$8$114
2007$7$92
2006$7$68
2005$7$70
2004$6$53
2003$27$56
2002–$39
2001–$30
2000–$21
1999–$24
1998–$45
1997–$42
1996–$36
1995–$41
1994–$26
1993–$25
1992–$20
1991–$20
1990–$20
1989–$19
1988–$20
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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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