Eswatini

Military spending in US dollars in Eswatini

Military spending in US dollars in Eswatini: $14.6M in 1977 and $88.1M in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.

Latest, 2025
$88.1M
Since 1977
+$73.5M
Rank, 2025
135 of 151
counting from the highest
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US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI

Military spending in US dollars in EswatiniMilitary spending in US dollars in Eswatini: $14.6M in 1977 and $88.1M in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $91.1M in 2016, the lowest $13.1M in 1988.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $91.1M in 2016, the lowest $13.1M in 1988.

Every year

US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI

YearEswatini
2025$88.1M
2024$83.2M
2023$87.1M
2022$81.2M
2021$76.4M
2020$81.9M
2019$84.1M
2018$87.7M
2017$84M
2016$91.1M
2015$77.8M
2014$76.8M
2013$76.4M
2012$72.3M
2011$81.9M
2010$83.9M
2009$75.5M
2008$69.4M
2007$61.9M
2006$60.8M
2005$61.1M
2004$46.7M
2003$42.3M
2002$36.3M
2001$35.6M
2000$38.4M
1999$39.3M
1998$37.4M
1997$33.4M
1996$34.8M
1995$33.9M
1994$33.4M
1993$32.2M
1992$27.8M
1991$22.1M
1990$20.1M
1989$14.1M
1988$13.1M
1987$13.6M
1986$15.2M
1985$15.2M
1984$16.7M
1983$18.3M
1982$18.8M
1981$18.8M
1980$21.3M
1979$21.1M
1978$20.6M
1977$14.6M
  • Estimate

Good to know

  • What the country spends on its armed forces and defence, in constant 2024 US dollars so that years compare, 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 151 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.

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