Mali
Military share of state spending in Mali
Military share of state spending in Mali: 7.6% of government spending in 2000 and 14.8% of government spending in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 14.8% of government spending
- Since 2000
- +7.2 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 16 of 150
- counting from the highest
% of government spending · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 16.6% of government spending in 2024, the lowest 5.9% of government spending in 2013.
Every year
% of government spending · SIPRI
| Year | Mali |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 14.8 |
| 2024 | 16.6 |
| 2023 | 14.9 |
| 2022 | 12.4 |
| 2021 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 13 |
| 2019 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 13.9 |
| 2017 | 13.2 |
| 2016 | 11.6 |
| 2015 | 11.3 |
| 2014 | 7.6 |
| 2013 | 5.9 |
| 2012 | 7.7 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2010 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 6.2 |
| 2008 | 7.7 |
| 2007 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 6.4 |
| 2004 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 6.8 |
| 2002 | 6.4 |
| 2001 | 7.1 |
| 2000 | 7.6 |
- 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 spending3.87% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$883M in 2025
- Military spending per person$38 in 2025
- Armed forces personnel41,000 people in 2020
- National power0.1% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.54% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports64 million TIV in 2025