Jamaica
Military spending in US dollars in Jamaica
Military spending in US dollars in Jamaica: $90.4M in 1976 and $280M in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $280M
- Since 1976
- +$189M
- Rank, 2025
- 112 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $300M in 2019, the lowest $71.1M in 1985.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Jamaica |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $280M |
| 2024 | $276M |
| 2023 | $229M |
| 2022 | $233M |
| 2021 | $246M |
| 2020 | $270M |
| 2019 | $300M |
| 2018 | $237M |
| 2017 | $168M |
| 2016 | $160M |
| 2015 | $141M |
| 2014 | $136M |
| 2013 | $141M |
| 2012 | $146M |
| 2011 | $147M |
| 2010 | $138M |
| 2009 | $156M |
| 2008 | $161M |
| 2007 | $119M |
| 2006 | $108M |
| 2005 | $90.4M |
| 2004 | $94M |
| 2003 | $101M |
| 2002 | $97M |
| 2001 | $80.4M |
| 2000 | $75.5M |
| 1999 | $76.9M |
| 1998 | $80.5M |
| 1997 | $97.5M |
| 1996 | $85.4M |
| 1995 | $86.3M |
| 1994 | $94.5M |
| 1993 | $125M |
| 1992 | $149M |
| 1991 | $94.3M |
| 1990 | $102M |
| 1989 | $106M |
| 1988 | $87.2M |
| 1987 | $77.3M |
| 1986 | $76.5M |
| 1985 | $71.1M |
| 1984 | $85.1M |
| 1983 | $106M |
| 1982 | $117M |
| 1981 | $104M |
| 1977 | $90.6M |
| 1976 | $90.4M |
- Estimate
Good to know
- What the country spends on its armed forces and defence, in constant 2024 US dollars so that years compare, 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 151 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
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- Military spending1.37% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending per person$101 in 2025
- Military share of state spending4.1% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel6,000 people in 2020
- National power0.02% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.41% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports10 million TIV in 2024