Libya vs Tunisia

Libya vs Tunisia: Military spending per person

Military spending per person: $216 in Libya in 2023 and $121 in Tunisia in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2023 the value was higher in Libya, by $117, or 2.18 times that in Tunisia.

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US dollars per person · SIPRI

Libya vs Tunisia: Military spending per personMilitary spending per person: $216 in Libya in 2023 and $121 in Tunisia in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2023 the value was higher in Libya, by $117, or 2.18 times that in Tunisia.
LibyaTunisiaHighly uncertain

What the numbers say

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

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearLibyaTunisia
2025–$121
2024–$108
2023$216$99
2022$169$95
2021–$102
2020–$97
2019–$84
2018–$72
2017–$74
2016–$86
2015–$86
2014$589$81
2013$636$69
2012$488$62
2011–$66
2010–$53
2009–$53
2008$178$55
2007$106$47
2006$104$48
2005$119$46
2004$121$44
2003$97$41
2002$83$35
2001$153$34
2000$207$34
1999$223$37
1998$283$39
1997$249$38
1996–$43
1995–$38
1994–$33
1993–$31
1992–$34
1991–$31
1990–$30
1989–$29
1988–$30
  • 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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