Eswatini
Military spending per person in Eswatini
Military spending per person in Eswatini: $11 in 1988 and $75 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $75
- Since 1988
- +$64
- Rank, 2025
- 87 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $96 in 2011, the lowest $11 in 1989.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Eswatini |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $75 |
| 2024 | $67 |
| 2023 | $68 |
| 2022 | $69 |
| 2021 | $69 |
| 2020 | $65 |
| 2019 | $74 |
| 2018 | $82 |
| 2017 | $76 |
| 2016 | $70 |
| 2015 | $65 |
| 2014 | $72 |
| 2013 | $76 |
| 2012 | $81 |
| 2011 | $96 |
| 2010 | $92 |
| 2009 | $69 |
| 2008 | $61 |
| 2007 | $57 |
| 2006 | $54 |
| 2005 | $55 |
| 2004 | $40 |
| 2003 | $30 |
| 2002 | $17 |
| 2001 | $19 |
| 2000 | $24 |
| 1999 | $25 |
| 1998 | $25 |
| 1997 | $26 |
| 1996 | $27 |
| 1995 | $30 |
| 1994 | $26 |
| 1993 | $25 |
| 1992 | $23 |
| 1991 | $18 |
| 1990 | $17 |
| 1989 | $11 |
| 1988 | $11 |
- 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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- Military spending1.6% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$88.1M in 2025
- Military share of state spending5.2% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel3,000 people in 1999
- National power0.01% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.98% of the labour force in 1999
- Arms imports2 million TIV in 2020