Ecuador
Military share of state spending in Ecuador
Military share of state spending in Ecuador: 9.8% of government spending in 1995 and 5.7% of government spending in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 5.7% of government spending
- Since 1995
- −4.2 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 65 of 150
- counting from the highest
% of government spending · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 11.2% of government spending in 2003, the lowest 5.5% of government spending in 2019.
Every year
% of government spending · SIPRI
| Year | Ecuador |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.7 |
| 2024 | 6.1 |
| 2023 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 6 |
| 2020 | 6.1 |
| 2019 | 5.5 |
| 2018 | 5.8 |
| 2017 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 6.1 |
| 2014 | 5.9 |
| 2013 | 6.1 |
| 2012 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 7.8 |
| 2010 | 8.7 |
| 2009 | 9.5 |
| 2008 | 7.6 |
| 2007 | 10.7 |
| 2006 | 9.6 |
| 2005 | 10.7 |
| 2004 | 9.5 |
| 2003 | 11.2 |
| 2002 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 6.3 |
| 1999 | 6.5 |
| 1998 | 9.7 |
| 1997 | 8.8 |
| 1996 | 8 |
| 1995 | 9.8 |
- Estimate
Good to know
- The part of everything the government spends that goes on its armed forces and defence, 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 150 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
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- Military spending2.1% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$2.71B in 2025
- Military spending per person$150 in 2025
- Armed forces personnel42,000 people in 2020
- National power0.15% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.54% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports30 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports2 million TIV in 2018