Finland
Military spending per person in Finland
Military spending per person in Finland: $345 in 1988 and $1,437 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $1,437
- Since 1988
- +$1,092
- Rank, 2025
- 11 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $1,437 in 2025, the lowest $286 in 2001.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Finland |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,437 |
| 2024 | $1,159 |
| 2023 | $1,060 |
| 2022 | $803 |
| 2021 | $693 |
| 2020 | $702 |
| 2019 | $659 |
| 2018 | $681 |
| 2017 | $628 |
| 2016 | $623 |
| 2015 | $622 |
| 2014 | $732 |
| 2013 | $767 |
| 2012 | $730 |
| 2011 | $764 |
| 2010 | $695 |
| 2009 | $743 |
| 2008 | $750 |
| 2007 | $626 |
| 2006 | $596 |
| 2005 | $573 |
| 2004 | $555 |
| 2003 | $477 |
| 2002 | $312 |
| 2001 | $286 |
| 2000 | $302 |
| 1999 | $321 |
| 1998 | $381 |
| 1997 | $379 |
| 1996 | $395 |
| 1995 | $374 |
| 1994 | $346 |
| 1993 | $320 |
| 1992 | $413 |
| 1991 | $440 |
| 1990 | $431 |
| 1989 | $357 |
| 1988 | $345 |
- 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 spending2.57% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$7.61B in 2025
- Military share of state spending4.4% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel22,000 people in 2020
- National power0.14% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.8% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports51 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports115 million TIV in 2025