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
What the numbers say
- The highest was $259 in 2015, the lowest $23 in 2004.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Iraq |
|---|---|
| 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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Iraq in numbers
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Military
- Military spending2.45% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$6.4B 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