Guatemala

Military spending per person in Guatemala

Military spending per person in Guatemala: $17 in 1988 and $34 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.

Latest, 2025
$34
Since 1988
+$17
Rank, 2025
109 of 151
counting from the highest

US dollars per person · SIPRI

Military spending per person in GuatemalaMilitary spending per person in Guatemala: $17 in 1988 and $34 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $34 in 2025, the lowest $8 in 2005.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $34 in 2025, the lowest $8 in 2005.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearGuatemala
2025$34
2024$25
2023$24
2022$25
2021$19
2020$20
2019$20
2018$16
2017$17
2016$18
2015$16
2014$16
2013$16
2012$15
2011$13
2010$12
2009$10
2008$12
2007$10
2006$10
2005$8
2004$9
2003$14
2002$13
2001$17
2000$14
1999$11
1998$13
1997$12
1996$14
1995$16
1994$15
1993$15
1992$16
1991$13
1990$15
1989$18
1988$17
  • 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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