Australia
Military spending per person in Australia
Military spending per person in Australia: $355 in 1988 and $1,316 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $1,316
- Since 1988
- +$961
- Rank, 2025
- 14 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Australia |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,316 |
| 2024 | $1,288 |
| 2023 | $1,231 |
| 2022 | $1,244 |
| 2021 | $1,267 |
| 2020 | $1,064 |
| 2019 | $1,030 |
| 2018 | $1,077 |
| 2017 | $1,129 |
| 2016 | $1,093 |
| 2015 | $1,012 |
| 2014 | $1,101 |
| 2013 | $1,077 |
| 2012 | $1,157 |
| 2011 | $1,192 |
| 2010 | $1,056 |
| 2009 | $878 |
| 2008 | $881 |
| 2007 | $828 |
| 2006 | $697 |
| 2005 | $657 |
| 2004 | $602 |
| 2003 | $504 |
| 2002 | $408 |
| 2001 | $366 |
| 2000 | $383 |
| 1999 | $413 |
| 1998 | $382 |
| 1997 | $431 |
| 1996 | $451 |
| 1995 | $426 |
| 1994 | $419 |
| 1993 | $382 |
| 1992 | $394 |
| 1991 | $407 |
| 1990 | $394 |
| 1989 | $377 |
| 1988 | $355 |
- Estimate
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 spending1.92% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$35.3B in 2025
- Military share of state spending4.9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel60,000 people in 2020
- National power0.6% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.44% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports826 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports108 million TIV in 2025