Singapore vs United Arab Emirates: Military share of state spending

Military share of state spending: 18% of government spending in Singapore in 2025 and 17% of government spending in United Arab Emirates in 2014, by SIPRI estimates. In 2014 the value was higher in Singapore, by 6.8 percentage points, or 1.4 times that in United Arab Emirates.

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% of government spending · SIPRI

SingaporeUnited Arab EmiratesSIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

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

Every year

% of government spending · SIPRI

Year	Singapore	United Arab Emirates
2025	18	–
2024	19	–
2023	18.3	–
2022	15.8	–
2021	15.4	–
2020	11.4	–
2019	19.7	–
2018	20	–
2017	21.6	–
2016	19.8	–
2015	21	–
2014	23.9	17
2013	27.6	19.9
2012	31.4	17.4
2011	32.6	17.6
2010	32.2	18.7
2009	23.4	15.6
2008	28	16.7
2007	39.2	18.6
2006	30.9	20.6
2005	33.7	23.2
2004	30.6	26
2003	30.1	23.4
2002	30.4	22.9
2001	26.5	22.3
2000	27.4	26.2
1999	31.8	20.7
1998	29.3	20.6
1997	30.4	19.2
1996	23.2	–
1995	29.4	–
1994	33	–
1993	27.2	–
1992	29.7	–
1991	27.5	–
1990	29.9	–

Estimate

Each country on its own

Good to know

The part of everything the government spends that goes on its armed forces and defence, 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 150 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.

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Deaths in conflictsSingapore: 0 deaths in 2022United Arab Emirates: 3 deaths in 2022