Mozambique
Military spending in US dollars in Mozambique
Military spending in US dollars in Mozambique: $135M in 1980 and $446M in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $446M
- Since 1980
- +$311M
- Rank, 2025
- 103 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $484M in 2024, the lowest $58.1M in 1996.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Mozambique |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $446M |
| 2024 | $484M |
| 2023 | $420M |
| 2022 | $464M |
| 2021 | $389M |
| 2020 | $410M |
| 2019 | $279M |
| 2018 | $259M |
| 2017 | $187M |
| 2016 | $183M |
| 2015 | $166M |
| 2014 | $175M |
| 2013 | $156M |
| 2012 | $135M |
| 2011 | $121M |
| 2010 | $132M |
| 2009 | $102M |
| 2008 | $92.7M |
| 2007 | $92.6M |
| 2006 | $84.1M |
| 2005 | $93.7M |
| 2004 | $122M |
| 2003 | $111M |
| 2002 | $113M |
| 2001 | $109M |
| 2000 | $95.3M |
| 1999 | $92M |
| 1998 | $76.7M |
| 1997 | $64.5M |
| 1996 | $58.1M |
| 1995 | $64M |
| 1994 | $138M |
| 1993 | $118M |
| 1992 | $109M |
| 1991 | $109M |
| 1990 | $116M |
| 1989 | $127M |
| 1988 | $101M |
| 1987 | $111M |
| 1986 | $82.9M |
| 1985 | $108M |
| 1984 | $128M |
| 1983 | $134M |
| 1982 | $143M |
| 1981 | $152M |
| 1980 | $135M |
- 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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- Military spending1.87% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending per person$13 in 2025
- Military share of state spending6% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel11,000 people in 2020
- National power0.13% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.08% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports14 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports1 million TIV in 1977