El Salvador
Military spending per person in El Salvador
Military spending per person in El Salvador: $35 in 1988 and $77 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $77
- Since 1988
- +$42
- Rank, 2025
- 85 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $78 in 2024, the lowest $19 in 2000.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | El Salvador |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $77 |
| 2024 | $78 |
| 2023 | $72 |
| 2022 | $73 |
| 2021 | $56 |
| 2020 | $55 |
| 2019 | $51 |
| 2018 | $47 |
| 2017 | $42 |
| 2016 | $40 |
| 2015 | $40 |
| 2014 | $38 |
| 2013 | $39 |
| 2012 | $37 |
| 2011 | $36 |
| 2010 | $33 |
| 2009 | $31 |
| 2008 | $29 |
| 2007 | $28 |
| 2006 | $24 |
| 2005 | $22 |
| 2004 | $21 |
| 2003 | $21 |
| 2002 | $27 |
| 2001 | $25 |
| 2000 | $19 |
| 1999 | $19 |
| 1998 | $19 |
| 1997 | $19 |
| 1996 | $19 |
| 1995 | $19 |
| 1994 | $19 |
| 1993 | $21 |
| 1992 | $24 |
| 1991 | $27 |
| 1990 | $31 |
| 1989 | $41 |
| 1988 | $35 |
- 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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El Salvador in numbers
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- Military spending1.34% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$489M in 2025
- Military share of state spending4.4% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel42,000 people in 2020
- National power0.05% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.62% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports3 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports1 million TIV in 1991