Lithuania
Military share of state spending in Lithuania
Military share of state spending in Lithuania: 2.2% of government spending in 1993 and 7.6% of government spending in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 7.6% of government spending
- Since 1993
- +5.4 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 40 of 150
- counting from the highest
% of government spending · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 8% of government spending in 2024, the lowest 1.4% of government spending in 1994.
Every year
% of government spending · SIPRI
| Year | Lithuania |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2023 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 7.1 |
| 2021 | 5.2 |
| 2020 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 5.9 |
| 2018 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 5.3 |
| 2016 | 4.4 |
| 2015 | 3.3 |
| 2014 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 2.2 |
| 2012 | 2.2 |
| 2011 | 1.9 |
| 2010 | 2.1 |
| 2009 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 3.1 |
| 2007 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 3.5 |
| 2005 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 3.6 |
| 2003 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 3.4 |
| 1999 | 2.5 |
| 1998 | 3.3 |
| 1997 | 2.3 |
| 1996 | 1.6 |
| 1995 | 1.4 |
| 1994 | 1.4 |
| 1993 | 2.2 |
- Estimate
Good to know
- The part of everything the government spends that goes on its armed forces and defence, 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 150 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
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- Military spending3.08% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$2.74B in 2025
- Military spending per person$1,035 in 2025
- Armed forces personnel37,000 people in 2020
- National power0.05% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers2.48% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports29 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports3 million TIV in 2024