Mauritania
Military spending per person in Mauritania
Military spending per person in Mauritania: $24 in 1988 and $61 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $61
- Since 1988
- +$38
- Rank, 2025
- 93 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $61 in 2025, the lowest $10 in 1998.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Mauritania |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $61 |
| 2024 | $54 |
| 2023 | $56 |
| 2022 | $47 |
| 2021 | $49 |
| 2020 | $44 |
| 2019 | $37 |
| 2018 | $37 |
| 2017 | $35 |
| 2016 | $34 |
| 2015 | $34 |
| 2014 | $38 |
| 2013 | $39 |
| 2012 | $40 |
| 2009 | $36 |
| 2008 | $39 |
| 2006 | $28 |
| 2005 | $23 |
| 2003 | $23 |
| 2002 | $13 |
| 2001 | $20 |
| 2000 | $15 |
| 1999 | $13 |
| 1998 | $10 |
| 1997 | $17 |
| 1996 | $16 |
| 1995 | $14 |
| 1994 | $13 |
| 1993 | $14 |
| 1992 | $19 |
| 1991 | $20 |
| 1990 | $21 |
| 1989 | $21 |
| 1988 | $24 |
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.
- Ranks count the 151 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
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- Military spending2.75% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$315M in 2025
- Military share of state spending10.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel21,000 people in 2020
- National power0.03% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers2% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports126 million TIV in 2024