Greece
Military spending per person in Greece
Military spending per person in Greece: $271 in 1988 and $842 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $842
- Since 1988
- +$572
- Rank, 2025
- 28 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $963 in 2009, the lowest $251 in 1989.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Greece |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $842 |
| 2024 | $729 |
| 2023 | $678 |
| 2022 | $836 |
| 2021 | $777 |
| 2020 | $540 |
| 2019 | $502 |
| 2018 | $536 |
| 2017 | $476 |
| 2016 | $461 |
| 2015 | $444 |
| 2014 | $507 |
| 2013 | $514 |
| 2012 | $533 |
| 2011 | $641 |
| 2010 | $735 |
| 2009 | $963 |
| 2008 | $960 |
| 2007 | $775 |
| 2006 | $692 |
| 2005 | $641 |
| 2004 | $574 |
| 2003 | $463 |
| 2002 | $437 |
| 2001 | $410 |
| 2000 | $424 |
| 1999 | $468 |
| 1998 | $453 |
| 1997 | $432 |
| 1996 | $438 |
| 1995 | $398 |
| 1994 | $344 |
| 1993 | $324 |
| 1992 | $351 |
| 1991 | $306 |
| 1990 | $312 |
| 1989 | $251 |
| 1988 | $271 |
- 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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- Military spending2.99% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$7.81B in 2025
- Military share of state spending6% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel147,000 people in 2020
- National power0.26% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers3.2% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports574 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports2 million TIV in 2025
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