Congo - Kinshasa
Military spending in US dollars in Congo - Kinshasa
Military spending in US dollars in Congo - Kinshasa: $124M in 1963 and $1.08B in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $1.08B
- Since 1963
- +$958M
- Rank, 2025
- 79 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $1.08B in 2025, the lowest $36.8M in 1998.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Congo - Kinshasa |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $1.08B |
| 2024 | $899M |
| 2023 | $763M |
| 2022 | $375M |
| 2021 | $334M |
| 2020 | $399M |
| 2019 | $386M |
| 2018 | $331M |
| 2017 | $385M |
| 2016 | $487M |
| 2015 | $572M |
| 2014 | $400M |
| 2013 | $442M |
| 2012 | $395M |
| 2011 | $286M |
| 2010 | $249M |
| 2009 | $183M |
| 2008 | $242M |
| 2007 | $338M |
| 2006 | $357M |
| 2005 | $329M |
| 2004 | $281M |
| 2003 | $169M |
| 2000 | $99.6M |
| 1999 | $134M |
| 1998 | $36.8M |
| 1997 | $122M |
| 1996 | $149M |
| 1993 | $431M |
| 1992 | $140M |
| 1991 | $73.5M |
| 1990 | $79.9M |
| 1989 | $113M |
| 1988 | $360M |
| 1987 | $48.8M |
| 1986 | $110M |
| 1985 | $79.6M |
| 1984 | $94.5M |
| 1983 | $75.8M |
| 1982 | $111M |
| 1981 | $56.5M |
| 1980 | $104M |
| 1979 | $118M |
| 1978 | $129M |
| 1977 | $148M |
| 1976 | $173M |
| 1975 | $283M |
| 1974 | $397M |
| 1973 | $278M |
| 1972 | $295M |
| 1971 | $370M |
| 1970 | $394M |
| 1969 | $301M |
| 1968 | $223M |
| 1967 | $215M |
| 1966 | $239M |
| 1965 | $279M |
| 1964 | $171M |
| 1963 | $124M |
- 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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Congo - Kinshasa in numbers
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- Military spending1.38% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending per person$11 in 2025
- Military share of state spending8.1% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel134,000 people in 2020
- National power0.59% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.41% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports44 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports22 million TIV in 1997