Guinea-Bissau
Military spending per person in Guinea-Bissau
Military spending per person in Guinea-Bissau: $5 in 1989 and $10 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $10
- Since 1989
- +$5
- Rank, 2025
- 138 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $15 in 2012, the lowest $2 in 1997.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Guinea-Bissau |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $10 |
| 2024 | $11 |
| 2023 | $9 |
| 2022 | $9 |
| 2021 | $13 |
| 2020 | $12 |
| 2019 | $12 |
| 2018 | $6 |
| 2017 | $10 |
| 2016 | $9 |
| 2015 | $10 |
| 2014 | $12 |
| 2013 | $13 |
| 2012 | $15 |
| 2011 | $11 |
| 2010 | $11 |
| 2009 | $9 |
| 2005 | $9 |
| 2003 | $6 |
| 2002 | $5 |
| 2001 | $5 |
| 2000 | $8 |
| 1998 | $2 |
| 1997 | $2 |
| 1996 | $2 |
| 1995 | $2 |
| 1994 | $2 |
| 1989 | $5 |
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.
- Ranks count the 151 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
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Guinea-Bissau in numbers
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Military
- Military spending0.89% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$21M in 2025
- Military share of state spending4.7% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel4,000 people in 2020
- National power0.01% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.53% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports5 million TIV in 1993