Egypt vs Israel

Egypt vs Israel: Military spending per person

Military spending per person in 2025: $21 in Egypt and $5,108 in Israel, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Israel, by $5,087, or 240 times that in Egypt.

US dollars per person · SIPRI

Egypt vs Israel: Military spending per personMilitary spending per person in 2025: $21 in Egypt and $5,108 in Israel, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in Israel, by $5,087, or 240 times that in Egypt.
EgyptIsraelSIPRI estimateHighly uncertain

What the numbers say

  • Israel has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1988.
  • In 2025, Egypt ranked 120 and Israel ranked 1 of 151 countries, counting from the highest.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearEgyptIsrael
2025$21$5,108
2024$21$4,926
2023$28$2,949
2022$42$2,526
2021$47$2,660
2020$42$2,411
2019$35$2,306
2018$30$2,284
2017$27$2,261
2016$45$2,041
2015$56$2,003
2014$53$2,193
2013$46$2,050
2012$49$1,855
2011$50$1,965
2010$50$1,881
2009$46$1,765
2008$44$1,943
2007$40$1,627
2006$36$1,360
2005$33$1,321
2004$30$1,306
2003$31$1,262
2002$38$1,251
2001$38$1,354
2000$36$1,361
1999$35$1,287
1998$34$1,395
1997$33$1,517
1996$32$1,544
1995$30$1,482
1994$27$1,509
1993$25$1,543
1992$23$1,495
1991$23$2,000
1990$39$1,477
1989$63$1,279
1988$82$1,638
  • 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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