Argentina

Military spending per person in Argentina

Military spending per person in Argentina: $86 in 1988 and $85 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.

Latest, 2025
$85
Since 1988
−$1
Rank, 2025
80 of 151
counting from the highest

US dollars per person · SIPRI

Military spending per person in ArgentinaMilitary spending per person in Argentina: $86 in 1988 and $85 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $127 in 2015, the lowest $29 in 2002.
Estimates, SIPRIHighly uncertain

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $127 in 2015, the lowest $29 in 2002.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearArgentina
2025$85
2024$92
2023$107
2022$96
2021$68
2020$63
2019$70
2018$86
2017$124
2016$103
2015$127
2014$116
2013$121
2012$109
2011$98
2010$85
2009$73
2008$69
2007$58
2006$47
2005$44
2004$38
2003$36
2002$29
2001$85
2000$88
1999$95
1998$94
1997$93
1996$96
1995$109
1994$109
1993$99
1992$97
1991$87
1990$63
1989$45
1988$86
  • Highly uncertain

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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