Guyana
Military spending per person in Guyana
Military spending per person in Guyana: $14 in 1988 and $297 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $297
- Since 1988
- +$283
- Rank, 2025
- 50 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $297 in 2025, the lowest $3 in 1991.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Guyana |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $297 |
| 2024 | $249 |
| 2023 | $134 |
| 2022 | $108 |
| 2021 | $95 |
| 2020 | $96 |
| 2019 | $83 |
| 2018 | $80 |
| 2017 | $78 |
| 2016 | $68 |
| 2015 | $61 |
| 2014 | $52 |
| 2013 | $47 |
| 2012 | $45 |
| 2011 | $43 |
| 2010 | $41 |
| 2009 | $41 |
| 2008 | $40 |
| 2007 | $33 |
| 2006 | $25 |
| 2005 | $24 |
| 2004 | $29 |
| 2003 | $21 |
| 2002 | $22 |
| 2001 | $19 |
| 2000 | $16 |
| 1996 | $7 |
| 1995 | $8 |
| 1994 | $7 |
| 1993 | $6 |
| 1992 | $5 |
| 1991 | $3 |
| 1990 | $5 |
| 1989 | $8 |
| 1988 | $14 |
- 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 spending0.99% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$240M 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