Georgia
Military spending in Georgia
Military spending in Georgia: 2.21% of GDP in 1996 and 1.75% of GDP in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 1.75% of GDP
- Since 1996
- −0.46 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 73 of 151
- counting from the highest
% of GDP · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 9.16% of GDP in 2007, the lowest 0.62% of GDP in 2000.
Every year
% of GDP · SIPRI
| Year | Georgia |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.75 |
| 2024 | 1.59 |
| 2023 | 1.65 |
| 2022 | 1.61 |
| 2021 | 1.59 |
| 2020 | 1.79 |
| 2019 | 1.76 |
| 2018 | 1.87 |
| 2017 | 1.94 |
| 2016 | 2.04 |
| 2015 | 1.97 |
| 2014 | 2.31 |
| 2013 | 2.52 |
| 2012 | 2.91 |
| 2011 | 3.03 |
| 2010 | 3.66 |
| 2009 | 5.61 |
| 2008 | 8.52 |
| 2007 | 9.16 |
| 2006 | 5.22 |
| 2005 | 3.34 |
| 2004 | 1.37 |
| 2003 | 1.07 |
| 2002 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0.74 |
| 2000 | 0.62 |
| 1999 | 0.92 |
| 1998 | 1.14 |
| 1997 | 1.25 |
| 1996 | 2.21 |
- 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$637M in 2025
- Military spending per person$173 in 2025
- Military share of state spending5.8% of government spending 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