Hungary
Military spending in US dollars in Hungary
Military spending in US dollars in Hungary: $2.84B in 1972 and $4.62B in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $4.62B
- Since 1972
- +$1.78B
- Rank, 2025
- 49 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $5.54B in 1985, the lowest $1.27B in 1996.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Hungary |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $4.62B |
| 2024 | $4.73B |
| 2023 | $4.36B |
| 2022 | $4.03B |
| 2021 | $2.78B |
| 2020 | $3.41B |
| 2019 | $2.63B |
| 2018 | $1.87B |
| 2017 | $2.06B |
| 2016 | $1.63B |
| 2015 | $1.43B |
| 2014 | $1.27B |
| 2013 | $1.29B |
| 2012 | $1.36B |
| 2011 | $1.43B |
| 2010 | $1.41B |
| 2009 | $1.58B |
| 2008 | $1.77B |
| 2007 | $1.9B |
| 2006 | $1.87B |
| 2005 | $2.08B |
| 2004 | $2.1B |
| 2003 | $2.27B |
| 2002 | $2.11B |
| 2001 | $1.93B |
| 2000 | $1.76B |
| 1999 | $1.59B |
| 1998 | $1.39B |
| 1997 | $1.56B |
| 1996 | $1.27B |
| 1995 | $1.35B |
| 1994 | $1.79B |
| 1993 | $1.81B |
| 1992 | $2.1B |
| 1991 | $2.17B |
| 1990 | $2.89B |
| 1989 | $3.34B |
| 1988 | $4.21B |
| 1987 | $3.65B |
| 1986 | $3.59B |
| 1985 | $5.54B |
| 1984 | $3.55B |
| 1983 | $3.75B |
| 1982 | $3.67B |
| 1981 | $3.71B |
| 1980 | $3.59B |
| 1979 | $3.6B |
| 1978 | $3.62B |
| 1977 | $3.2B |
| 1976 | $3.07B |
| 1975 | $3.27B |
| 1974 | $3.04B |
| 1973 | $2.77B |
| 1972 | $2.84B |
- 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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- Military spending2.04% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending per person$518 in 2025
- Military share of state spending4.3% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel46,000 people in 2020
- National power0.13% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.95% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports402 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports11 million TIV in 2024
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