Libya vs Tunisia

Libya vs Tunisia: Military spending

Military spending: 3.57% of GDP in Libya in 2023 and 2.5% of GDP in Tunisia in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2023 the value was higher in Libya, by 1.07 percentage points, or 1.43 times that in Tunisia.

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% of GDP · SIPRI

Libya vs Tunisia: Military spendingMilitary spending: 3.57% of GDP in Libya in 2023 and 2.5% of GDP in Tunisia in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2023 the value was higher in Libya, by 1.07 percentage points, or 1.43 times that in Tunisia.
LibyaTunisiaSIPRI estimateHighly uncertain

What the numbers say

  • Libya has been higher since 2012, when it overtook Tunisia.

Every year

% of GDP · SIPRI

YearLibyaTunisia
2025–2.5
2024–2.5
20233.572.51
20222.82.55
2021–2.62
2020–2.71
2019–2.38
2018–1.98
2017–2.03
2016–2.23
2015–2.14
20146.551.81
20135.261.56
20123.231.44
2011–1.49
2010–1.24
2009–1.3
20081.271.29
20070.941.26
20061.021.45
20051.411.45
20042.011.43
20032.021.48
20022.141.49
20012.331.52
20002.751.55
19993.111.56
19984.671.68
19974.011.73
1996–1.87
1995–1.75
1994–1.74
1993–1.73
1992–1.71
1991–1.83
1990–1.84
1989–2.12
1988–2.1
1987–1.82
1986–2.09
1985–2.34
1984–2.76
1983–4.17
19822.053.69
19811.612.48
19802.672.03
19793.222.24
19783.82.49
19772.462.38
19761.971.86
19752.251.74
19743.291.31
19733.991.4
19723.711.42
19715.321.48
19706.071.56
19693.761.31
19682.861.44
19673.361.42
19662.921.32
19651.861.29
19641.841.74
19632.411.51
19623.11.73
19611.862.22
19601.592.01
  • Estimate
  • Highly uncertain

Each country on its own

Good to know

  • What the country spends on its armed forces and defence, as a share of its economy, 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 151 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.

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