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
What the numbers say
- The highest was $127 in 2015, the lowest $29 in 2002.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Argentina |
|---|---|
| 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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- Military spending0.56% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$3.73B in 2025
- Military share of state spending1.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel103,000 people in 2020
- National power0.45% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.53% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports108 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports1 million TIV in 2011