Bahrain
Military spending per person in Bahrain
Military spending per person in Bahrain: $440 in 1988 and $903 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $903
- Since 1988
- +$463
- Rank, 2025
- 26 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $1,149 in 2014, the lowest $440 in 1988.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Bahrain |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $903 |
| 2024 | $872 |
| 2023 | $1,046 |
| 2022 | $1,055 |
| 2021 | $966 |
| 2020 | $951 |
| 2019 | $1,043 |
| 2018 | $1,017 |
| 2017 | $1,048 |
| 2016 | $1,078 |
| 2015 | $1,074 |
| 2014 | $1,149 |
| 2013 | $1,095 |
| 2012 | $984 |
| 2011 | $853 |
| 2010 | $694 |
| 2009 | $719 |
| 2008 | $661 |
| 2007 | $626 |
| 2006 | $596 |
| 2005 | $569 |
| 2004 | $632 |
| 2003 | $660 |
| 2002 | $614 |
| 2001 | $550 |
| 2000 | $542 |
| 1999 | $563 |
| 1998 | $522 |
| 1997 | $522 |
| 1996 | $536 |
| 1995 | $518 |
| 1994 | $499 |
| 1993 | $503 |
| 1992 | $517 |
| 1991 | $503 |
| 1990 | $473 |
| 1989 | $446 |
| 1988 | $440 |
- 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 spending3.11% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$1.46B in 2025
- Military share of state spending10.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel19,000 people in 2020
- National power0.07% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers2.33% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports30 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports2 million TIV in 2001