Bangladesh
Military share of state spending in Bangladesh
Military share of state spending in Bangladesh: 10.3% of government spending in 1988 and 7.1% of government spending in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 7.1% of government spending
- Since 1988
- −3.2 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 43 of 150
- counting from the highest
% of government spending · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 14.2% of government spending in 1999, the lowest 6.9% of government spending in 2023.
Every year
% of government spending · SIPRI
| Year | Bangladesh |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 7.1 |
| 2024 | 7.2 |
| 2023 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 7.6 |
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2020 | 9.4 |
| 2019 | 9.2 |
| 2018 | 8.9 |
| 2017 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 10.6 |
| 2015 | 10.5 |
| 2014 | 9.7 |
| 2013 | 9.2 |
| 2012 | 10.1 |
| 2011 | 10.6 |
| 2010 | 11.2 |
| 2009 | 9.7 |
| 2008 | 8.1 |
| 2007 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 9.8 |
| 2005 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 10.1 |
| 2001 | 10.5 |
| 2000 | 12.3 |
| 1999 | 14.2 |
| 1998 | 12.3 |
| 1997 | 12.3 |
| 1996 | 12 |
| 1995 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 11.6 |
| 1991 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 10.3 |
| 1989 | 10.5 |
| 1988 | 10.3 |
- Estimate
Good to know
- The part of everything the government spends that goes on its armed forces and defence, by SIPRI’s count.
- 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 150 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
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- Military spending0.81% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$3.67B in 2025
- Military spending per person$22 in 2025
- Armed forces personnel227,000 people in 2020
- National power1.01% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.32% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports32 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports2 million TIV in 1984