Israel
Military spending per person in Israel
Military spending per person in Israel: $1,638 in 1988 and $5,108 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $5,108
- Since 1988
- +$3,470
- Rank, 2025
- 1 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $5,108 in 2025, the lowest $1,251 in 2002.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Israel |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $5,108 |
| 2024 | $4,926 |
| 2023 | $2,949 |
| 2022 | $2,526 |
| 2021 | $2,660 |
| 2020 | $2,411 |
| 2019 | $2,306 |
| 2018 | $2,284 |
| 2017 | $2,261 |
| 2016 | $2,041 |
| 2015 | $2,003 |
| 2014 | $2,193 |
| 2013 | $2,050 |
| 2012 | $1,855 |
| 2011 | $1,965 |
| 2010 | $1,881 |
| 2009 | $1,765 |
| 2008 | $1,943 |
| 2007 | $1,627 |
| 2006 | $1,360 |
| 2005 | $1,321 |
| 2004 | $1,306 |
| 2003 | $1,262 |
| 2002 | $1,251 |
| 2001 | $1,354 |
| 2000 | $1,361 |
| 1999 | $1,287 |
| 1998 | $1,395 |
| 1997 | $1,517 |
| 1996 | $1,544 |
| 1995 | $1,482 |
| 1994 | $1,509 |
| 1993 | $1,543 |
| 1992 | $1,495 |
| 1991 | $2,000 |
| 1990 | $1,477 |
| 1989 | $1,279 |
| 1988 | $1,638 |
- 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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- Military spending7.81% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$43.7B in 2025
- Military share of state spending17.8% of government spending 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