Georgia
Military share of state spending in Georgia
Military share of state spending in Georgia: 11.7% of government spending in 1996 and 5.8% of government spending in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 5.8% of government spending
- Since 1996
- −5.9 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 61 of 150
- counting from the highest
% of government spending · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 32.2% of government spending in 2007, the lowest 3.5% of government spending in 2000.
Every year
% of government spending · SIPRI
| Year | Georgia |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.8 |
| 2024 | 5.3 |
| 2023 | 5.5 |
| 2022 | 5.6 |
| 2021 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2017 | 7.1 |
| 2016 | 7.3 |
| 2015 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 11.2 |
| 2010 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 15.7 |
| 2008 | 26.1 |
| 2007 | 32.2 |
| 2006 | 22.4 |
| 2005 | 15 |
| 2004 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 6.5 |
| 2002 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 4.3 |
| 2000 | 3.5 |
| 1999 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 5.9 |
| 1997 | 5.6 |
| 1996 | 11.7 |
- 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 spending1.75% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$637M in 2025
- Military spending per person$173 in 2025
- Armed forces personnel26,000 people in 2020
- National power0.04% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.39% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports15 million TIV in 2024
- Arms exports7 million TIV in 2017