Burundi
Military spending in US dollars in Burundi
Military spending in US dollars in Burundi: $17M in 1965 and $169M in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $169M
- Since 1965
- +$152M
- Rank, 2025
- 124 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $172M in 2024, the lowest $17M in 1965.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Burundi |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $169M |
| 2024 | $172M |
| 2023 | $156M |
| 2022 | $110M |
| 2021 | $84.9M |
| 2020 | $88M |
| 2019 | $114M |
| 2018 | $84.5M |
| 2017 | $77.5M |
| 2016 | $90M |
| 2015 | $89.9M |
| 2014 | $87.8M |
| 2013 | $90.2M |
| 2012 | $87.5M |
| 2008 | $81.5M |
| 2007 | $97.7M |
| 2006 | $97.3M |
| 2005 | $117M |
| 2004 | $122M |
| 2003 | $125M |
| 2002 | $123M |
| 2001 | $128M |
| 2000 | $96.8M |
| 1999 | $113M |
| 1998 | $107M |
| 1997 | $100M |
| 1996 | $92.8M |
| 1995 | $80.1M |
| 1994 | $96.2M |
| 1993 | $91.9M |
| 1992 | $92.9M |
| 1991 | $90.4M |
| 1990 | $88.3M |
| 1989 | $83.8M |
| 1988 | $74.8M |
| 1987 | $61.8M |
| 1986 | $68.8M |
| 1985 | $68.8M |
| 1984 | $65.8M |
| 1983 | $67.1M |
| 1982 | $75M |
| 1981 | $64.9M |
| 1980 | $67.4M |
| 1979 | $50M |
| 1978 | $58.1M |
| 1977 | $59M |
| 1976 | $43.1M |
| 1975 | $36M |
| 1974 | $37.5M |
| 1973 | $34M |
| 1972 | $24M |
| 1971 | $18.2M |
| 1969 | $23.9M |
| 1968 | $19.3M |
| 1967 | $18.8M |
| 1966 | $17.9M |
| 1965 | $17M |
- Highly uncertain
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 spending3.24% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending per person$16 in 2025
- Military share of state spending14.9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel31,000 people in 2020
- National power0.06% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.59% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports2 million TIV in 2019