Lebanon
Military spending per person in Lebanon
Military spending per person in Lebanon: $12 in 1988 and $142 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $142
- Since 1988
- +$131
- Rank, 2025
- 67 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $457 in 2018, the lowest $12 in 1988.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Lebanon |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $142 |
| 2024 | $110 |
| 2023 | $50 |
| 2022 | $38 |
| 2021 | $30 |
| 2020 | $76 |
| 2019 | $395 |
| 2018 | $457 |
| 2017 | $391 |
| 2016 | $407 |
| 2015 | $342 |
| 2014 | $369 |
| 2013 | $363 |
| 2012 | $342 |
| 2011 | $322 |
| 2010 | $316 |
| 2009 | $288 |
| 2008 | $239 |
| 2007 | $240 |
| 2006 | $214 |
| 2005 | $208 |
| 2004 | $209 |
| 2003 | $206 |
| 2002 | $205 |
| 2001 | $220 |
| 2000 | $217 |
| 1999 | $197 |
| 1998 | $167 |
| 1997 | $167 |
| 1996 | $184 |
| 1995 | $190 |
| 1994 | $165 |
| 1993 | $120 |
| 1992 | $119 |
| 1991 | $63 |
| 1990 | $60 |
| 1988 | $12 |
- Estimate
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.
- 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 in US dollars$736M 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