Cambodia
Military spending in Cambodia
Military spending in Cambodia: 1.15% of GDP in 1986 and 1.45% of GDP in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 1.45% of GDP
- Since 1986
- +0.3 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 87 of 151
- counting from the highest
% of GDP · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 3.84% of GDP in 1994, the lowest 0.68% of GDP in 2008.
Every year
% of GDP · SIPRI
| Year | Cambodia |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.45 |
| 2024 | 1.52 |
| 2023 | 1.55 |
| 2022 | 1.54 |
| 2021 | 1.7 |
| 2020 | 1.78 |
| 2019 | 1.62 |
| 2018 | 1.64 |
| 2017 | 1.56 |
| 2016 | 1.44 |
| 2015 | 1.35 |
| 2014 | 1.26 |
| 2013 | 1.23 |
| 2012 | 1.22 |
| 2011 | 1.2 |
| 2010 | 1.22 |
| 2009 | 1.09 |
| 2008 | 0.68 |
| 2007 | 0.78 |
| 2006 | 0.91 |
| 2005 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1.18 |
| 2003 | 1.34 |
| 2002 | 1.45 |
| 2001 | 1.71 |
| 2000 | 2.19 |
| 1999 | 2.51 |
| 1998 | 2.66 |
| 1997 | 3 |
| 1996 | 3.24 |
| 1995 | 3.58 |
| 1994 | 3.84 |
| 1993 | 1.76 |
| 1992 | 3.15 |
| 1991 | 2.33 |
| 1990 | 2.07 |
| 1989 | 1.99 |
| 1988 | 1.28 |
| 1987 | 1.57 |
| 1986 | 1.15 |
- Estimate
Good to know
- What the country spends on its armed forces and defence, as a share of its economy, 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 spending in US dollars$716M in 2025
- Military spending per person$42 in 2025
- Military share of state spending8.2% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel191,000 people in 2020
- National power0.16% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers2.02% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports56 million TIV in 2023
- Arms exports1 million TIV in 2000