North Korea vs Thailand

North Korea vs Thailand: Military spending per person

Military spending per person: $62 in North Korea in 2018 and $84 in Thailand in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2018 the value was higher in Thailand, by $31, or 1.51 times that in North Korea.

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US dollars per person · SIPRI

North Korea vs Thailand: Military spending per personMilitary spending per person: $62 in North Korea in 2018 and $84 in Thailand in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2018 the value was higher in Thailand, by $31, or 1.51 times that in North Korea.
North KoreaThailandSIPRI estimateHighly uncertain

What the numbers say

  • Thailand has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2015.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearNorth KoreaThailand
2025–$84
2024–$77
2023–$80
2022–$84
2021–$99
2020–$102
2019–$100
2018$62$93
2017$37$86
2016$36$79
2015$34$77
2014–$80
2013–$80
2012–$78
2011–$75
2010–$76
2009–$64
2008–$54
2007–$40
2006–$32
2005–$28
2004–$30
2003–$29
2002–$28
2001–$27
2000–$30
1999–$33
1998–$35
1997–$54
1996–$66
1995–$66
1994–$62
1993–$55
1992–$53
1991–$47
1990–$41
1989–$36
1988–$34
  • Estimate
  • Highly uncertain

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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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