Türkiye vs United Arab Emirates

Türkiye vs United Arab Emirates: Military spending per person

Military spending per person: $342 in Türkiye in 2025 and $2,840 in United Arab Emirates in 2014, by SIPRI estimates. In 2014 the value was higher in United Arab Emirates, by $2,612, or 12 times that in Türkiye.

US dollars per person · SIPRI

Türkiye vs United Arab Emirates: Military spending per personMilitary spending per person: $342 in Türkiye in 2025 and $2,840 in United Arab Emirates in 2014, by SIPRI estimates. In 2014 the value was higher in United Arab Emirates, by $2,612, or 12 times that in Türkiye.
TürkiyeUnited Arab EmiratesSIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • United Arab Emirates has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1997.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearTürkiyeUnited Arab Emirates
2025$342–
2024$286–
2023$221–
2022$173–
2021$176–
2020$184–
2019$241–
2018$234–
2017$214–
2016$220–
2015$198–
2014$228$2,840
2013$243$3,080
2012$237$2,590
2011$231$2,719
2010$242$2,566
2009$223$2,099
2008$236$1,924
2007$213$1,616
2006$187$1,498
2005$175$1,452
2004$160$1,581
2003$152$1,432
2002$136$1,395
2001$110$1,607
2000$154$1,739
1999$155$1,343
1998$139$1,370
1997$125$1,232
1996$122–
1995$109–
1994$89–
1993$121–
1992$107–
1991$100–
1990$96–
1989$62–
1988$50–
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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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