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

Military spending in US dollars in KazakhstanMilitary spending in US dollars in Kazakhstan: $1.04B in 1993 and $1.31B in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $4.88B in 2019, the lowest $578M in 1999.
Estimates, SIPRIHighly uncertain

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $4.88B in 2019, the lowest $578M in 1999.

Every year

US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI

YearKazakhstan
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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