Myanmar (Burma)
Military spending per person in Myanmar (Burma)
Military spending per person in Myanmar (Burma): $7 in 1988 and $92 in 2024, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2024
- $92
- Since 1988
- +$86
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $697 in 2005, the lowest $7 in 1988.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Myanmar (Burma) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | $92 |
| 2023 | $46 |
| 2022 | $46 |
| 2021 | $50 |
| 2020 | $47 |
| 2019 | $29 |
| 2018 | $29 |
| 2017 | $43 |
| 2016 | $48 |
| 2015 | $50 |
| 2014 | $47 |
| 2013 | $47 |
| 2012 | $60 |
| 2005 | $697 |
| 2004 | $637 |
| 2003 | $521 |
| 2002 | $239 |
| 2001 | $208 |
| 2000 | $201 |
| 1999 | $156 |
| 1998 | $134 |
| 1997 | $110 |
| 1996 | $109 |
| 1995 | $93 |
| 1994 | $67 |
| 1993 | $50 |
| 1992 | $34 |
| 1991 | $24 |
| 1990 | $21 |
| 1989 | $14 |
| 1988 | $7 |
- Highly uncertain
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.
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Myanmar (Burma) in numbers
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- Military spending6.61% of GDP in 2024
- Military spending in US dollars$4.65B in 2024
- Military share of state spending32% of government spending in 2024
- Armed forces personnel463,000 people in 2020
- National power0.53% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.94% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports70 million TIV in 2025