Gabon
Military spending in Gabon
Military spending in Gabon: 1.11% of GDP in 1967 and 1.66% of GDP in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 1.66% of GDP
- Since 1967
- +0.55 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 76 of 151
- counting from the highest
% of GDP · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 4% of GDP in 1986, the lowest 0.67% of GDP in 1976.
Every year
% of GDP · SIPRI
| Year | Gabon |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.66 |
| 2024 | 1.53 |
| 2023 | 1.32 |
| 2022 | 1.36 |
| 2021 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 1.72 |
| 2019 | 1.58 |
| 2018 | 1.55 |
| 2017 | 1.81 |
| 2016 | 1.45 |
| 2015 | 1.19 |
| 2014 | 1.15 |
| 2013 | 1.6 |
| 2012 | 1.62 |
| 2011 | 1.46 |
| 2010 | 1.87 |
| 2006 | 1.28 |
| 2005 | 1.25 |
| 2004 | 1.61 |
| 2003 | 1.67 |
| 2002 | 1.78 |
| 2001 | 1.79 |
| 2000 | 1.69 |
| 1986 | 4 |
| 1985 | 2.86 |
| 1984 | 2.26 |
| 1983 | 2.55 |
| 1982 | 2.45 |
| 1981 | 2.29 |
| 1980 | 1.6 |
| 1979 | 1.88 |
| 1977 | 1.03 |
| 1976 | 0.67 |
| 1975 | 0.78 |
| 1974 | 0.68 |
| 1973 | 1.3 |
| 1972 | 1.55 |
| 1971 | 1.44 |
| 1970 | 1.43 |
| 1969 | 1.37 |
| 1968 | 1.02 |
| 1967 | 1.11 |
- Estimate
Good to know
- What the country spends on its armed forces and defence, as a share of its economy, 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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- Military spending in US dollars$337M in 2025
- Military spending per person$139 in 2025
- Military share of state spending6.5% of government spending 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