Chile
Military spending per person in Chile
Military spending per person in Chile: $78 in 1988 and $269 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $269
- Since 1988
- +$191
- Rank, 2025
- 54 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $329 in 2011, the lowest $75 in 1989.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Chile |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $269 |
| 2024 | $279 |
| 2023 | $279 |
| 2022 | $238 |
| 2021 | $268 |
| 2020 | $271 |
| 2019 | $272 |
| 2018 | $296 |
| 2017 | $292 |
| 2016 | $264 |
| 2015 | $258 |
| 2014 | $287 |
| 2013 | $314 |
| 2012 | $314 |
| 2011 | $329 |
| 2010 | $286 |
| 2009 | $231 |
| 2008 | $277 |
| 2007 | $243 |
| 2006 | $235 |
| 2005 | $191 |
| 2004 | $167 |
| 2003 | $130 |
| 2002 | $113 |
| 2001 | $121 |
| 2000 | $137 |
| 1999 | $134 |
| 1998 | $141 |
| 1997 | $143 |
| 1996 | $130 |
| 1995 | $127 |
| 1994 | $103 |
| 1993 | $92 |
| 1992 | $85 |
| 1991 | $77 |
| 1990 | $77 |
| 1989 | $75 |
| 1988 | $78 |
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.
- Ranks count the 151 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
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- Military spending1.52% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$5.15B in 2025
- Military share of state spending5.7% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel114,000 people in 2020
- National power0.23% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.28% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports14 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports8 million TIV in 2022