North Korea vs Vietnam

North Korea vs Vietnam: Military spending per person

Military spending per person: $62 in North Korea in 2018 and $104 in Vietnam in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2018 the value was higher in Vietnam, by $10, or 1.16 times that in North Korea.

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US dollars per person · SIPRI

North Korea vs Vietnam: Military spending per personMilitary spending per person: $62 in North Korea in 2018 and $104 in Vietnam in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. In 2018 the value was higher in Vietnam, by $10, or 1.16 times that in North Korea.
North KoreaVietnamHighly uncertain

What the numbers say

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

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearNorth KoreaVietnam
2025–$104
2024–$85
2023–$80
2022–$71
2021–$76
2020–$73
2019–$75
2018$62$72
2017$37$68
2016$36$68
2015$34$66
2014–$62
2013–$61
2012–$53
2011–$34
2010–$31
2009–$34
2008–$24
2007–$22
2006–$16
2005–$13
2004–$11
2003–$11
1994–$6
1993–$4
1992–$5
1991–$6
1990–$8
1989–$7
1988–$21
  • 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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