Gabon
Military spending per person in Gabon
Military spending per person in Gabon: $73 in 2000 and $139 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $139
- Since 2000
- +$66
- Rank, 2025
- 69 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $159 in 2010, the lowest $70 in 2001.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Gabon |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $139 |
| 2024 | $127 |
| 2023 | $108 |
| 2022 | $116 |
| 2021 | $133 |
| 2020 | $115 |
| 2019 | $119 |
| 2018 | $120 |
| 2017 | $126 |
| 2016 | $98 |
| 2015 | $85 |
| 2014 | $107 |
| 2013 | $150 |
| 2012 | $153 |
| 2011 | $152 |
| 2010 | $159 |
| 2006 | $88 |
| 2005 | $82 |
| 2004 | $89 |
| 2003 | $80 |
| 2002 | $71 |
| 2001 | $70 |
| 2000 | $73 |
- 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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Gabon in numbers
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Military
- Military spending1.66% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$337M 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