Ecuador

Military spending per person in Ecuador

Military spending per person in Ecuador: $20 in 1988 and $150 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.

Latest, 2025
$150
Since 1988
+$130
Rank, 2025
66 of 151
counting from the highest

US dollars per person · SIPRI

Military spending per person in EcuadorMilitary spending per person in Ecuador: $20 in 1988 and $150 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $175 in 2014, the lowest $19 in 1989.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $175 in 2014, the lowest $19 in 1989.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearEcuador
2025$150
2024$160
2023$150
2022$146
2021$137
2020$135
2019$136
2018$151
2017$148
2016$153
2015$161
2014$175
2013$174
2012$168
2011$161
2010$140
2009$133
2008$114
2007$92
2006$68
2005$70
2004$53
2003$56
2002$39
2001$30
2000$21
1999$24
1998$45
1997$42
1996$36
1995$41
1994$26
1993$25
1992$20
1991$20
1990$20
1989$19
1988$20
  • 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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