Egypt

Military spending per person in Egypt

Military spending per person in Egypt: $82 in 1988 and $21 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.

Latest, 2025
$21
Since 1988
−$61
Rank, 2025
120 of 151
counting from the highest

US dollars per person · SIPRI

Military spending per person in EgyptMilitary spending per person in Egypt: $82 in 1988 and $21 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $82 in 1988, the lowest $21 in 2024.
Estimates, SIPRIHighly uncertain

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $82 in 1988, the lowest $21 in 2024.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearEgypt
2025$21
2024$21
2023$28
2022$42
2021$47
2020$42
2019$35
2018$30
2017$27
2016$45
2015$56
2014$53
2013$46
2012$49
2011$50
2010$50
2009$46
2008$44
2007$40
2006$36
2005$33
2004$30
2003$31
2002$38
2001$38
2000$36
1999$35
1998$34
1997$33
1996$32
1995$30
1994$27
1993$25
1992$23
1991$23
1990$39
1989$63
1988$82
  • Highly uncertain

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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