Congo - Kinshasa vs Congo - Brazzaville: Military share of state spending

Military share of state spending in 2025: 8.1% of government spending in Congo - Kinshasa and 6% of government spending in Congo - Brazzaville, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Congo - Kinshasa, by 2.2 percentage points, or 1.36 times that in Congo - Brazzaville.

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% of government spending · SIPRI

Congo - KinshasaCongo - BrazzavilleSIPRI estimateHighly uncertain

What the numbers say

Congo - Kinshasa has been higher since 2024, when it overtook Congo - Brazzaville.
In 2025, Congo - Kinshasa ranked 38 and Congo - Brazzaville ranked 55 of 150 countries, counting from the highest.

Every year

% of government spending · SIPRI

Year	Congo - Kinshasa	Congo - Brazzaville
2025	8.1	6
2024	7.2	5.7
2023	6.7	9.7
2022	3.1	8.4
2021	3.8	11.2
2020	5.8	12.3
2019	5.2	10.7
2018	5.2	11.1
2017	7.2	12
2016	7.4	11.8
2015	8	–
2014	6.9	8.1
2013	9	4.8
2012	8.3	–
2011	6.6	–
2010	5.4	7.2
2009	5.3	–
2008	6.9	7.4
2007	12.6	6.7
2006	15.7	5.9
2005	15.8	6.9
2004	16.5	10
2003	9.6	9
2002	–	6.6
2001	–	6.2
2000	8.8	–
1999	12.2	–
1998	3.5	–
1997	12.7	–
1996	16.1	–
1993	–	11.1
1992	–	11.7

Estimate
Highly uncertain

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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