Japan
Military spending per person in Japan
Military spending per person in Japan: $231 in 1988 and $504 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $504
- Since 1988
- +$273
- Rank, 2025
- 44 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $504 in 2025, the lowest $228 in 1989.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Japan |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $504 |
| 2024 | $437 |
| 2023 | $386 |
| 2022 | $344 |
| 2021 | $425 |
| 2020 | $406 |
| 2019 | $400 |
| 2018 | $382 |
| 2017 | $354 |
| 2016 | $366 |
| 2015 | $331 |
| 2014 | $368 |
| 2013 | $384 |
| 2012 | $469 |
| 2011 | $474 |
| 2010 | $426 |
| 2009 | $402 |
| 2008 | $362 |
| 2007 | $317 |
| 2006 | $325 |
| 2005 | $346 |
| 2004 | $355 |
| 2003 | $333 |
| 2002 | $309 |
| 2001 | $321 |
| 2000 | $359 |
| 1999 | $340 |
| 1998 | $299 |
| 1997 | $322 |
| 1996 | $350 |
| 1995 | $398 |
| 1994 | $362 |
| 1993 | $332 |
| 1992 | $290 |
| 1991 | $265 |
| 1990 | $234 |
| 1989 | $228 |
| 1988 | $231 |
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.
- Ranks count the 151 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
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- Military spending1.41% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$59.5B in 2025
- Military share of state spending3.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel261,000 people in 2020
- National power2.47% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.38% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports1.72 billion TIV in 2025
- Arms exports28 million TIV in 2025