Italy
Military spending per person in Italy
Military spending per person in Italy: $306 in 1988 and $813 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $813
- Since 1988
- +$507
- Rank, 2025
- 30 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $813 in 2025, the lowest $298 in 1995.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Italy |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $813 |
| 2024 | $637 |
| 2023 | $596 |
| 2022 | $564 |
| 2021 | $586 |
| 2020 | $527 |
| 2019 | $419 |
| 2018 | $459 |
| 2017 | $416 |
| 2016 | $404 |
| 2015 | $359 |
| 2014 | $447 |
| 2013 | $494 |
| 2012 | $493 |
| 2011 | $561 |
| 2010 | $533 |
| 2009 | $570 |
| 2008 | $621 |
| 2007 | $543 |
| 2006 | $505 |
| 2005 | $509 |
| 2004 | $522 |
| 2003 | $466 |
| 2002 | $377 |
| 2001 | $341 |
| 2000 | $347 |
| 1999 | $367 |
| 1998 | $364 |
| 1997 | $353 |
| 1996 | $364 |
| 1995 | $298 |
| 1994 | $316 |
| 1993 | $319 |
| 1992 | $389 |
| 1991 | $378 |
| 1990 | $364 |
| 1989 | $310 |
| 1988 | $306 |
- 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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Italy in numbers
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Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending1.89% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$45.4B in 2025
- Military share of state spending3.7% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel338,000 people in 2020
- National power0.96% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.35% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports566 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports1.92 billion TIV in 2025
Climate
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