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

Military spending per person in ItalyMilitary spending per person in Italy: $306 in 1988 and $813 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $813 in 2025, the lowest $298 in 1995.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $813 in 2025, the lowest $298 in 1995.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearItaly
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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