Guyana

Military spending in US dollars in Guyana

Military spending in US dollars in Guyana: $19.9M in 1973 and $240M in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.

Latest, 2025
$240M
Since 1973
+$220M
Rank, 2025
113 of 151
counting from the highest
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US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI

Military spending in US dollars in GuyanaMilitary spending in US dollars in Guyana: $19.9M in 1973 and $240M in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $240M in 2025, the lowest $6.13M in 1991.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $240M in 2025, the lowest $6.13M in 1991.

Every year

US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI

YearGuyana
2025$240M
2024$207M
2023$114M
2022$93.7M
2021$86.2M
2020$90.5M
2019$80.1M
2018$74.9M
2017$72.6M
2016$64.3M
2015$58.2M
2014$48.7M
2013$43.8M
2012$42.3M
2011$41.8M
2010$42M
2009$43.6M
2008$44.1M
2007$38.7M
2006$33M
2005$33.9M
2004$43M
2003$32.5M
2002$34.5M
2001$30.9M
2000$27M
1996$11.3M
1995$12.6M
1994$13.3M
1993$11M
1992$9.65M
1991$6.13M
1990$7.77M
1989$14.7M
1988$18.8M
1987$24.7M
1986$36.5M
1985$54.9M
1984$30.3M
1983$31.6M
1982$40.8M
1981$41.8M
1980$45.2M
1979$40.7M
1978$48.2M
1977$77.7M
1976$118M
1975$113M
1974$39.6M
1973$19.9M
  • Estimate

Good to know

  • What the country spends on its armed forces and defence, in constant 2024 US dollars so that years compare, 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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