Brazil
Military spending per person in Brazil
Military spending per person in Brazil: $41 in 1988 and $113 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $113
- Since 1988
- +$71
- Rank, 2025
- 74 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $190 in 2011, the lowest $33 in 1992.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Brazil |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $113 |
| 2024 | $99 |
| 2023 | $103 |
| 2022 | $98 |
| 2021 | $92 |
| 2020 | $94 |
| 2019 | $125 |
| 2018 | $137 |
| 2017 | $144 |
| 2016 | $120 |
| 2015 | $123 |
| 2014 | $164 |
| 2013 | $166 |
| 2012 | $173 |
| 2011 | $190 |
| 2010 | $176 |
| 2009 | $134 |
| 2008 | $129 |
| 2007 | $109 |
| 2006 | $88 |
| 2005 | $74 |
| 2004 | $54 |
| 2003 | $47 |
| 2002 | $54 |
| 2001 | $62 |
| 2000 | $66 |
| 1999 | $58 |
| 1998 | $86 |
| 1997 | $84 |
| 1996 | $86 |
| 1995 | $89 |
| 1994 | $67 |
| 1993 | $46 |
| 1992 | $33 |
| 1991 | $45 |
| 1990 | $62 |
| 1989 | $60 |
| 1988 | $41 |
- 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 spending1.05% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$23.6B in 2025
- Military share of state spending2.2% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel762,000 people in 2020
- National power2.01% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.76% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports462 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports153 million TIV in 2025