Iraq
Military spending in US dollars in Iraq
Military spending in US dollars in Iraq: $217M in 1957 and $6.4B in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $6.4B
- Since 1957
- +$6.18B
- Rank, 2025
- 40 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $8.92B in 2015, the lowest $217M in 1957.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Iraq |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $6.4B |
| 2024 | $6.34B |
| 2023 | $5.07B |
| 2022 | $4.82B |
| 2021 | $5.11B |
| 2020 | $5.3B |
| 2019 | $7.14B |
| 2018 | $5.89B |
| 2017 | $6.93B |
| 2016 | $5.58B |
| 2015 | $8.92B |
| 2014 | $6.51B |
| 2013 | $7.48B |
| 2012 | $4.06B |
| 2011 | $4.46B |
| 2010 | $4.14B |
| 2009 | $3.68B |
| 2008 | $3.86B |
| 2007 | $2.92B |
| 2006 | $1.91B |
| 2005 | $2.66B |
| 2004 | $1.97B |
| 1978 | $1.99B |
| 1977 | $2.1B |
| 1976 | $2.01B |
| 1975 | $2.05B |
| 1974 | $2.02B |
| 1973 | $1.03B |
| 1972 | $828M |
| 1971 | $856M |
| 1970 | $843M |
| 1969 | $824M |
| 1968 | $676M |
| 1967 | $556M |
| 1966 | $575M |
| 1965 | $563M |
| 1964 | $460M |
| 1963 | $405M |
| 1962 | $349M |
| 1961 | $328M |
| 1960 | $313M |
| 1959 | $273M |
| 1958 | $233M |
| 1957 | $217M |
- 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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Iraq in numbers
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- Military spending2.45% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending per person$139 in 2025
- Military share of state spending5.5% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel459,000 people in 2020
- National power0.54% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers4.4% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports55 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports20 million TIV in 1989