Niger vs South Africa

Niger vs South Africa: Military spending per person

Military spending per person in 2025: $18 in Niger and $49 in South Africa, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in South Africa, by $31, or 2.77 times that in Niger.

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US dollars per person · SIPRI

Niger vs South Africa: Military spending per personMilitary spending per person in 2025: $18 in Niger and $49 in South Africa, by SIPRI estimates. In 2025 the value was higher in South Africa, by $31, or 2.77 times that in Niger.
NigerSouth AfricaSIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • South Africa has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1994.
  • In 2025, Niger ranked 124 and South Africa ranked 100 of 151 countries, counting from the highest.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearNigerSouth Africa
2025$18$49
2024$16$48
2023$13$49
2022$10$56
2021$8$58
2020$10$54
2019$11$58
2018$11$62
2017$10$63
2016$8$55
2015–$62
2014$8$71
2013$6$76
2012$9$84
2011$5$87
2010$4$81
2009$3$70
2008$4$65
2007–$70
2006–$70
2005$2$72
2004$2$64
2003$2$53
2002$2$37
2001$2$38
2000$2$40
1999$2$37
1998$2$41
1997$2$53
1996$2$58
1995$2$74
1994$2$79
1993–$76
1992–$87
1991–$94
1990–$109
1989–$107
1988–$113
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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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