Bulgaria
Military spending in US dollars in Bulgaria
Military spending in US dollars in Bulgaria: $5.24B in 1989 and $2.4B in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $2.4B
- Since 1989
- −$2.85B
- Rank, 2025
- 61 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $5.24B in 1989, the lowest $846M in 1997.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Bulgaria |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $2.4B |
| 2024 | $2.19B |
| 2023 | $2.04B |
| 2022 | $1.66B |
| 2021 | $1.51B |
| 2020 | $1.42B |
| 2019 | $2.83B |
| 2018 | $1.23B |
| 2017 | $999M |
| 2016 | $964M |
| 2015 | $900M |
| 2014 | $888M |
| 2013 | $950M |
| 2012 | $880M |
| 2011 | $879M |
| 2010 | $1.06B |
| 2009 | $1.12B |
| 2008 | $1.41B |
| 2007 | $1.44B |
| 2006 | $1.23B |
| 2005 | $1.24B |
| 2004 | $1.21B |
| 2003 | $1.3B |
| 2002 | $1.28B |
| 2001 | $1.27B |
| 2000 | $1.14B |
| 1999 | $1.11B |
| 1998 | $978M |
| 1997 | $846M |
| 1996 | $906M |
| 1995 | $1.1B |
| 1994 | $1.12B |
| 1993 | $1.31B |
| 1992 | $1.73B |
| 1991 | $2.29B |
| 1990 | $4.23B |
| 1989 | $5.24B |
- 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 spending2.01% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending per person$384 in 2025
- Military share of state spending5.2% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel37,000 people in 2020
- National power0.09% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.18% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports540 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports33 million TIV in 2024
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