Kuwait
Military spending in US dollars in Kuwait
Military spending in US dollars in Kuwait: $719M in 1972 and $7.92B in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $7.92B
- Since 1972
- +$7.2B
- Rank, 2025
- 34 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $29.2B in 1991, the lowest $719M in 1972.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Kuwait |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $7.92B |
| 2024 | $7.8B |
| 2023 | $8B |
| 2022 | $8.78B |
| 2021 | $9.82B |
| 2020 | $7.97B |
| 2019 | $8.56B |
| 2018 | $8.36B |
| 2017 | $7.97B |
| 2016 | $7.73B |
| 2015 | $7.06B |
| 2014 | $7.01B |
| 2013 | $7.03B |
| 2012 | $7.43B |
| 2011 | $6.86B |
| 2010 | $6.01B |
| 2009 | $6.12B |
| 2008 | $6.29B |
| 2007 | $6.84B |
| 2006 | $6.44B |
| 2005 | $6.51B |
| 2004 | $6.73B |
| 2003 | $6.25B |
| 2002 | $5.8B |
| 2001 | $5.62B |
| 2000 | $5.72B |
| 1999 | $4.9B |
| 1998 | $5.04B |
| 1997 | $5.4B |
| 1996 | $7.09B |
| 1995 | $8.34B |
| 1994 | $7.6B |
| 1993 | $7.17B |
| 1992 | $14.8B |
| 1991 | $29.2B |
| 1990 | $22.4B |
| 1989 | $5.81B |
| 1988 | $4.68B |
| 1987 | $3.72B |
| 1986 | $3.79B |
| 1985 | $4.21B |
| 1984 | $4.47B |
| 1983 | $4.33B |
| 1982 | $4.04B |
| 1981 | $3.42B |
| 1980 | $3.25B |
| 1979 | $3.29B |
| 1978 | $2.94B |
| 1977 | $3.37B |
| 1974 | $2.22B |
| 1973 | $901M |
| 1972 | $719M |
- 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 spending4.69% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending per person$1,623 in 2025
- Military share of state spending10.1% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel25,000 people in 2020
- National power0.2% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.03% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports311 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports95 million TIV in 1998