Kazakhstan
Military spending in US dollars in Kazakhstan
Military spending in US dollars in Kazakhstan: $1.04B in 1993 and $1.31B in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $1.31B
- Since 1993
- +$262M
- Rank, 2025
- 75 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $4.88B in 2019, the lowest $578M in 1999.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Kazakhstan |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $1.31B |
| 2024 | $1.17B |
| 2023 | $1.24B |
| 2022 | $1.43B |
| 2021 | $2.11B |
| 2020 | $2.12B |
| 2019 | $4.88B |
| 2018 | $3.74B |
| 2017 | $3.47B |
| 2016 | $3.62B |
| 2015 | $4.28B |
| 2014 | $4.16B |
| 2013 | $4.17B |
| 2012 | $3.7B |
| 2011 | $3.17B |
| 2010 | $2.88B |
| 2009 | $2.62B |
| 2008 | $2.78B |
| 2007 | $2.93B |
| 2006 | $1.95B |
| 2005 | $1.66B |
| 2004 | $1.32B |
| 2003 | $1.16B |
| 2002 | $976M |
| 2001 | $891M |
| 2000 | $606M |
| 1999 | $578M |
| 1998 | $691M |
| 1997 | $696M |
| 1996 | $745M |
| 1995 | $690M |
| 1994 | $669M |
| 1993 | $1.04B |
- Highly uncertain
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 spending0.43% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending per person$63 in 2025
- Military share of state spending2.1% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel71,000 people in 2020
- National power0.27% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.74% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports18 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports6 million TIV in 2006