Israel
Military share of state spending in Israel
Military share of state spending in Israel: 13.9% of government spending in 2000 and 17.8% of government spending in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 17.8% of government spending
- Since 2000
- +4 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 10 of 150
- counting from the highest
% of government spending · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 19.3% of government spending in 2024, the lowest 11.4% of government spending in 2020.
Every year
% of government spending · SIPRI
| Year | Israel |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 17.8 |
| 2024 | 19.3 |
| 2023 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 11.7 |
| 2021 | 12 |
| 2020 | 11.4 |
| 2019 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 13.1 |
| 2017 | 13.7 |
| 2016 | 13.6 |
| 2015 | 14 |
| 2014 | 14.3 |
| 2013 | 13.3 |
| 2012 | 13.4 |
| 2011 | 13.8 |
| 2010 | 14.4 |
| 2009 | 14.3 |
| 2008 | 15 |
| 2007 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 14 |
| 2005 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 14.2 |
| 2003 | 13.6 |
| 2002 | 12.7 |
| 2001 | 13.5 |
| 2000 | 13.9 |
- Estimate
Good to know
- The part of everything the government spends that goes on its armed forces and defence, 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 150 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
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- Military spending7.81% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$43.7B in 2025
- Military spending per person$5,108 in 2025
- Armed forces personnel178,000 people in 2020
- National power0.38% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers4.23% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports537 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports2.62 billion TIV in 2025