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

Military spending per person in El SalvadorMilitary spending per person in El Salvador: $35 in 1988 and $77 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $78 in 2024, the lowest $19 in 2000.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $78 in 2024, the lowest $19 in 2000.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearEl 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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