Libya vs Sudan

Libya vs Sudan: Military share of state spending

Military share of state spending: 5.5% of government spending in Libya in 2023 and 9.5% of government spending in Sudan in 2021, by SIPRI estimates. In 2008 the value was higher in Sudan, by 22.2 percentage points, or 8.17 times that in Libya.

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% of government spending · SIPRI

Libya vs Sudan: Military share of state spendingMilitary share of state spending: 5.5% of government spending in Libya in 2023 and 9.5% of government spending in Sudan in 2021, by SIPRI estimates. In 2008 the value was higher in Sudan, by 22.2 percentage points, or 8.17 times that in Libya.
LibyaSudanHighly uncertain

What the numbers say

  • Sudan has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1997.

Every year

% of government spending · SIPRI

YearLibyaSudan
20235.5–
20224.5–
2021–9.5
2020–9.1
2019–8.8
2018–10.6
2017–25.7
2016–22.8
2015–21.9
201410.9–
20137.2–
20128.2–
2009–29.1
20083.125.3
20072.820.9
20063.619.3
2005516.8
20044.928.2
20034.814.9
20025.225.4
20016.325
200010.343.2
199911.547.8
199814.230.5
199711.712.9
1996–13.6
1995–16.1
1994–19.4
1993–20.8
1992–11.8
1991–11.7
1990–17.1
  • Highly uncertain

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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.

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