Eritrea vs Ethiopia

Eritrea vs Ethiopia: Military spending per person

Military spending per person: $75 in Eritrea in 2003 and $4 in Ethiopia in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2003 the value was higher in Eritrea, by $71, or 20 times that in Ethiopia.

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US dollars per person · SIPRI

Eritrea vs Ethiopia: Military spending per personMilitary spending per person: $75 in Eritrea in 2003 and $4 in Ethiopia in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2003 the value was higher in Eritrea, by $71, or 20 times that in Ethiopia.
EritreaEthiopiaSIPRI estimateHighly uncertain

What the numbers say

  • Eritrea has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1993.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearEritreaEthiopia
2025–$4
2024–$5
2023–$10
2022–$8
2021–$4
2020–$4
2019–$5
2018–$5
2017–$5
2016–$5
2015–$4
2014–$4
2013–$4
2012–$4
2011–$4
2010–$3
2009–$4
2008–$5
2007–$4
2006–$4
2005–$4
2004–$4
2003$75$4
2002$64$4
2001$74$5
2000$103$9
1999$125$11
1998$121$7
1997$43$4
1996$72$2
1995$65$2
1994$42$3
1993$59$3
1992–$5
1991–$11
1990–$17
1989–$17
1988–$14
  • 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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