Belarus
Military spending per person in Belarus
Military spending per person in Belarus: $17 in 1994 and $215 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $215
- Since 1994
- +$197
- Rank, 2025
- 61 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $215 in 2025, the lowest $14 in 2000.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Belarus |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $215 |
| 2024 | $166 |
| 2023 | $153 |
| 2022 | $131 |
| 2021 | $102 |
| 2020 | $92 |
| 2019 | $95 |
| 2018 | $97 |
| 2017 | $79 |
| 2016 | $77 |
| 2015 | $68 |
| 2014 | $87 |
| 2013 | $101 |
| 2012 | $85 |
| 2011 | $80 |
| 2010 | $81 |
| 2009 | $71 |
| 2008 | $93 |
| 2007 | $78 |
| 2006 | $66 |
| 2005 | $47 |
| 2004 | $32 |
| 2003 | $24 |
| 2002 | $21 |
| 2001 | $18 |
| 2000 | $14 |
| 1999 | $16 |
| 1998 | $23 |
| 1997 | $25 |
| 1996 | $18 |
| 1995 | $18 |
| 1994 | $17 |
- 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 spending2.4% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$1.83B in 2025
- Military share of state spending5.7% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel158,000 people in 2020
- National power0.14% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers3.17% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports466 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports1 million TIV in 2025