Colombia
Military spending in US dollars in Colombia
Military spending in US dollars in Colombia: $469M in 1958 and $13.7B in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $13.7B
- Since 1958
- +$13.3B
- Rank, 2025
- 29 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $13.9B in 2024, the lowest $386M in 1959.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Colombia |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $13.7B |
| 2024 | $13.9B |
| 2023 | $12.2B |
| 2022 | $12B |
| 2021 | $12.3B |
| 2020 | $11.8B |
| 2019 | $11.4B |
| 2018 | $10.6B |
| 2017 | $10.8B |
| 2016 | $10.1B |
| 2015 | $10.3B |
| 2014 | $10.2B |
| 2013 | $10.3B |
| 2012 | $9.5B |
| 2011 | $8.87B |
| 2010 | $9.53B |
| 2009 | $9.61B |
| 2008 | $9.14B |
| 2007 | $7.74B |
| 2006 | $7.29B |
| 2005 | $6.9B |
| 2004 | $6.77B |
| 2003 | $6.35B |
| 2002 | $6.04B |
| 2001 | $5.75B |
| 2000 | $5.23B |
| 1999 | $5.16B |
| 1998 | $4.84B |
| 1997 | $4.06B |
| 1996 | $6.31B |
| 1995 | $4.07B |
| 1994 | $3.49B |
| 1993 | $3.34B |
| 1992 | $2.59B |
| 1991 | $2.27B |
| 1990 | $2.29B |
| 1989 | $2.19B |
| 1988 | $2.15B |
| 1987 | $1.87B |
| 1986 | $1.74B |
| 1985 | $1.6B |
| 1984 | $1.74B |
| 1983 | $1.53B |
| 1982 | $1.16B |
| 1981 | $1.17B |
| 1980 | $1.24B |
| 1979 | $1.08B |
| 1978 | $952M |
| 1977 | $816M |
| 1976 | $843M |
| 1975 | $897M |
| 1974 | $797M |
| 1973 | $803M |
| 1972 | $883M |
| 1971 | $1.42B |
| 1970 | $900M |
| 1969 | $731M |
| 1968 | $789M |
| 1967 | $955M |
| 1966 | $931M |
| 1965 | $905M |
| 1964 | $858M |
| 1963 | $899M |
| 1962 | $787M |
| 1961 | $507M |
| 1960 | $424M |
| 1959 | $386M |
| 1958 | $469M |
- 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 spending3.2% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending per person$273 in 2025
- Military share of state spending9.3% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel428,000 people in 2020
- National power0.57% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.7% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports22 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports4 million TIV in 2020