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

Military spending per person in BahrainMilitary spending per person in Bahrain: $440 in 1988 and $903 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $1,149 in 2014, the lowest $440 in 1988.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $1,149 in 2014, the lowest $440 in 1988.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearBahrain
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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