Guyana
Military spending in Guyana
Military spending in Guyana: 1.65% of GDP in 1973 and 0.99% of GDP in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 0.99% of GDP
- Since 1973
- −0.65 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 112 of 151
- counting from the highest
% of GDP · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 8.44% of GDP in 1985, the lowest 0.58% of GDP in 1991.
Every year
% of GDP · SIPRI
| Year | Guyana |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.99 |
| 2024 | 0.84 |
| 2023 | 0.65 |
| 2022 | 0.6 |
| 2021 | 0.95 |
| 2020 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 1.3 |
| 2018 | 1.29 |
| 2017 | 1.25 |
| 2016 | 1.15 |
| 2015 | 1.09 |
| 2014 | 0.95 |
| 2013 | 0.84 |
| 2012 | 0.83 |
| 2011 | 0.88 |
| 2010 | 0.91 |
| 2009 | 0.98 |
| 2008 | 1.01 |
| 2007 | 0.91 |
| 2006 | 0.81 |
| 2005 | 1.41 |
| 2004 | 2.81 |
| 2003 | 2.2 |
| 2002 | 2.29 |
| 2001 | 2.02 |
| 2000 | 1.77 |
| 1996 | 0.79 |
| 1995 | 0.92 |
| 1994 | 1.01 |
| 1993 | 0.95 |
| 1992 | 0.97 |
| 1991 | 0.58 |
| 1990 | 0.91 |
| 1989 | 1.58 |
| 1988 | 2.66 |
| 1987 | 3.09 |
| 1986 | 5.36 |
| 1985 | 8.44 |
| 1984 | 4.68 |
| 1983 | 4.52 |
| 1982 | 5.13 |
| 1981 | 3.95 |
| 1980 | 3.7 |
| 1979 | 3.72 |
| 1978 | 3.89 |
| 1977 | 6.08 |
| 1976 | 8.35 |
| 1975 | 6.96 |
| 1974 | 2.85 |
| 1973 | 1.65 |
- 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$240M in 2025
- Military spending per person$297 in 2025
- Military share of state spending4% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel3,000 people in 2020
- National power0.01% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.04% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports5 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports2 million TIV in 1976