Bangladesh
Military spending in US dollars in Bangladesh
Military spending in US dollars in Bangladesh: $208M in 1973 and $3.67B in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $3.67B
- Since 1973
- +$3.46B
- Rank, 2025
- 52 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $4.71B in 2020, the lowest $208M in 1973.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Bangladesh |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $3.67B |
| 2024 | $3.75B |
| 2023 | $3.75B |
| 2022 | $4.13B |
| 2021 | $4.67B |
| 2020 | $4.71B |
| 2019 | $4.63B |
| 2018 | $4.06B |
| 2017 | $3.68B |
| 2016 | $3.78B |
| 2015 | $3.44B |
| 2014 | $3.05B |
| 2013 | $2.85B |
| 2012 | $2.86B |
| 2011 | $2.72B |
| 2010 | $2.57B |
| 2009 | $2.13B |
| 2008 | $1.83B |
| 2007 | $1.85B |
| 2006 | $1.76B |
| 2005 | $1.63B |
| 2004 | $1.61B |
| 2003 | $1.58B |
| 2002 | $1.57B |
| 2001 | $1.62B |
| 2000 | $1.62B |
| 1999 | $1.56B |
| 1998 | $1.5B |
| 1997 | $1.48B |
| 1996 | $1.39B |
| 1995 | $1.33B |
| 1994 | $1.29B |
| 1993 | $1.15B |
| 1992 | $1.06B |
| 1991 | $923M |
| 1990 | $906M |
| 1989 | $912M |
| 1988 | $833M |
| 1987 | $758M |
| 1986 | $706M |
| 1985 | $648M |
| 1984 | $704M |
| 1983 | $716M |
| 1982 | $561M |
| 1981 | $486M |
| 1980 | $459M |
| 1979 | $437M |
| 1978 | $460M |
| 1977 | $515M |
| 1976 | $427M |
| 1975 | $242M |
| 1974 | $235M |
| 1973 | $208M |
- Estimate
Good to know
- What the country spends on its armed forces and defence, in constant 2024 US dollars so that years compare, 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 151 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
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- Military spending0.81% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending per person$22 in 2025
- Military share of state spending7.1% of government spending 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