Gabon
Military share of state spending in Gabon
Military share of state spending in Gabon: 8.3% of government spending in 2000 and 6.5% of government spending in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 6.5% of government spending
- Since 2000
- −1.9 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 51 of 150
- counting from the highest
% of government spending · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 10% of government spending in 2017, the lowest 4.6% of government spending in 2013.
Every year
% of government spending · SIPRI
| Year | Gabon |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.5 |
| 2024 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 9.3 |
| 2020 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 9.1 |
| 2018 | 9.1 |
| 2017 | 10 |
| 2016 | 6.6 |
| 2015 | 5.3 |
| 2014 | 4.8 |
| 2013 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 6.6 |
| 2010 | 8.1 |
| 2006 | 6.1 |
| 2005 | 6 |
| 2004 | 7.7 |
| 2003 | 7.9 |
| 2002 | 6.9 |
| 2001 | 6.4 |
| 2000 | 8.3 |
- Estimate
Good to know
- The part of everything the government spends that goes on its armed forces and defence, 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 150 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
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- Military spending1.66% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$337M in 2025
- Military spending per person$139 in 2025
- Armed forces personnel7,000 people in 2020
- National power0.02% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports6 million TIV in 2024
- Arms exports1 million TIV in 1973