Iran
Military spending per person in Iran
Military spending per person in Iran: $348 in 1988 and $80 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $80
- Since 1988
- −$268
- Rank, 2025
- 83 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $348 in 1988, the lowest $23 in 1993.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Iran |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $80 |
| 2024 | $87 |
| 2023 | $82 |
| 2022 | $84 |
| 2021 | $65 |
| 2020 | $38 |
| 2019 | $57 |
| 2018 | $138 |
| 2017 | $165 |
| 2016 | $147 |
| 2015 | $129 |
| 2014 | $122 |
| 2013 | $150 |
| 2012 | $209 |
| 2011 | $183 |
| 2010 | $176 |
| 2009 | $166 |
| 2008 | $148 |
| 2007 | $126 |
| 2006 | $121 |
| 2005 | $96 |
| 2004 | $75 |
| 2003 | $55 |
| 2002 | $48 |
| 2001 | $155 |
| 2000 | $126 |
| 1999 | $102 |
| 1998 | $86 |
| 1997 | $73 |
| 1996 | $57 |
| 1995 | $40 |
| 1994 | $28 |
| 1993 | $23 |
| 1992 | $325 |
| 1991 | $296 |
| 1990 | $286 |
| 1989 | $292 |
| 1988 | $348 |
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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- Military spending2.09% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$7.45B in 2025
- Military share of state spending11.2% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel650,000 people in 2020
- National power1.64% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers2.35% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports42 million TIV in 2024
- Arms exports80 million TIV in 2025