Cyprus
Military spending per person in Cyprus
Military spending per person in Cyprus: $321 in 1988 and $486 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $486
- Since 1988
- +$165
- Rank, 2025
- 45 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $784 in 1992, the lowest $240 in 2016.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Cyprus |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $486 |
| 2024 | $441 |
| 2023 | $418 |
| 2022 | $402 |
| 2021 | $414 |
| 2020 | $373 |
| 2019 | $363 |
| 2018 | $357 |
| 2017 | $287 |
| 2016 | $240 |
| 2015 | $271 |
| 2014 | $300 |
| 2013 | $328 |
| 2012 | $359 |
| 2011 | $422 |
| 2010 | $427 |
| 2009 | $428 |
| 2008 | $420 |
| 2007 | $380 |
| 2006 | $365 |
| 2005 | $366 |
| 2004 | $334 |
| 2003 | $291 |
| 2002 | $245 |
| 2001 | $337 |
| 2000 | $293 |
| 1999 | $311 |
| 1998 | $534 |
| 1997 | $601 |
| 1996 | $514 |
| 1995 | $350 |
| 1994 | $357 |
| 1993 | $329 |
| 1992 | $784 |
| 1991 | $527 |
| 1990 | $526 |
| 1989 | $317 |
| 1988 | $321 |
- Estimate
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.
- 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 spending1.61% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$632M in 2025
- Military share of state spending4% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel13,000 people in 2020
- National power0.02% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.81% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports28 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports40 million TIV in 2023