Gabon
Military spending in US dollars in Gabon
Military spending in US dollars in Gabon: $15M in 1967 and $337M in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $337M
- Since 1967
- +$322M
- Rank, 2025
- 110 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $337M in 2025, the lowest $14.7M in 1968.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Gabon |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $337M |
| 2024 | $319M |
| 2023 | $269M |
| 2022 | $299M |
| 2021 | $311M |
| 2020 | $276M |
| 2019 | $289M |
| 2018 | $275M |
| 2017 | $311M |
| 2016 | $245M |
| 2015 | $209M |
| 2014 | $213M |
| 2013 | $302M |
| 2012 | $309M |
| 2011 | $281M |
| 2010 | $301M |
| 2006 | $176M |
| 2005 | $159M |
| 2004 | $175M |
| 2003 | $167M |
| 2002 | $179M |
| 2001 | $179M |
| 2000 | $180M |
| 1986 | $170M |
| 1985 | $165M |
| 1984 | $145M |
| 1983 | $144M |
| 1982 | $141M |
| 1981 | $135M |
| 1980 | $89M |
| 1979 | $83.4M |
| 1977 | $58.6M |
| 1976 | $45.1M |
| 1975 | $40.7M |
| 1974 | $36.6M |
| 1973 | $34.1M |
| 1972 | $29M |
| 1971 | $27M |
| 1970 | $23.8M |
| 1969 | $21.8M |
| 1968 | $14.7M |
| 1967 | $15M |
- 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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- Military spending1.66% of GDP 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