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

Military spending in US dollars in IraqMilitary spending in US dollars in Iraq: $217M in 1957 and $6.4B in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $8.92B in 2015, the lowest $217M in 1957.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $8.92B in 2015, the lowest $217M in 1957.

Every year

US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI

YearIraq
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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