Lebanon
Military spending in US dollars in Lebanon
Military spending in US dollars in Lebanon: $2.79B in 1980 and $736M in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $736M
- Since 1980
- −$2.05B
- Rank, 2025
- 86 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $2.98B in 2016, the lowest $294M in 1988.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Lebanon |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $736M |
| 2024 | $636M |
| 2023 | $400M |
| 2022 | $345M |
| 2021 | $407M |
| 2020 | $1.04B |
| 2019 | $2.53B |
| 2018 | $2.86B |
| 2017 | $2.67B |
| 2016 | $2.98B |
| 2015 | $2.54B |
| 2014 | $2.48B |
| 2013 | $2.15B |
| 2012 | $2.05B |
| 2011 | $2.02B |
| 2010 | $2.07B |
| 2009 | $1.93B |
| 2008 | $1.6B |
| 2007 | $1.75B |
| 2006 | $1.59B |
| 2005 | $1.61B |
| 2004 | $1.58B |
| 2003 | $1.56B |
| 2002 | $1.55B |
| 2001 | $1.66B |
| 2000 | $1.61B |
| 1999 | $1.43B |
| 1998 | $1.21B |
| 1997 | $1.25B |
| 1996 | $1.49B |
| 1995 | $1.7B |
| 1994 | $1.66B |
| 1993 | $1.32B |
| 1992 | $1.59B |
| 1991 | $890M |
| 1990 | $935M |
| 1988 | $294M |
| 1987 | $387M |
| 1986 | $1.55B |
| 1985 | $1.99B |
| 1984 | $2.79B |
| 1983 | $2.37B |
| 1982 | $1.33B |
| 1981 | $2.19B |
| 1980 | $2.79B |
- 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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Lebanon in numbers
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- Military spending2.51% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending per person$142 in 2025
- Military share of state spending16.6% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel80,000 people in 2020
- National power0.08% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers4.1% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports9 million TIV in 2024
- Arms exports48 million TIV in 2002