Iraq

Military spending per person in Iraq

Military spending per person in Iraq: $23 in 2004 and $139 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.

Latest, 2025
$139
Since 2004
+$116
Rank, 2025
70 of 151
counting from the highest

US dollars per person · SIPRI

Military spending per person in IraqMilitary spending per person in Iraq: $23 in 2004 and $139 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $259 in 2015, the lowest $23 in 2004.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $259 in 2015, the lowest $23 in 2004.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearIraq
2025$139
2024$139
2023$128
2022$109
2021$112
2020$136
2019$188
2018$159
2017$191
2016$157
2015$259
2014$192
2013$225
2012$126
2011$136
2010$123
2009$110
2008$110
2007$70
2006$43
2005$40
2004$23
  • 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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