New Zealand
Military spending per person in New Zealand
Military spending per person in New Zealand: $291 in 1988 and $546 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $546
- Since 1988
- +$255
- Rank, 2025
- 39 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $589 in 2023, the lowest $206 in 2001.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | New Zealand |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $546 |
| 2024 | $578 |
| 2023 | $589 |
| 2022 | $553 |
| 2021 | $569 |
| 2020 | $558 |
| 2019 | $552 |
| 2018 | $474 |
| 2017 | $450 |
| 2016 | $412 |
| 2015 | $380 |
| 2014 | $445 |
| 2013 | $441 |
| 2012 | $444 |
| 2011 | $444 |
| 2010 | $406 |
| 2009 | $342 |
| 2008 | $362 |
| 2007 | $379 |
| 2006 | $327 |
| 2005 | $314 |
| 2004 | $294 |
| 2003 | $274 |
| 2002 | $221 |
| 2001 | $206 |
| 2000 | $223 |
| 1999 | $254 |
| 1998 | $255 |
| 1997 | $314 |
| 1996 | $334 |
| 1995 | $314 |
| 1994 | $272 |
| 1993 | $244 |
| 1992 | $248 |
| 1991 | $287 |
| 1990 | $316 |
| 1989 | $289 |
| 1988 | $291 |
- Estimate
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.
- Ranks count the 151 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
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- Military spending1.1% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$2.89B in 2025
- Military share of state spending2.7% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel10,000 people in 2020
- National power0.07% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.35% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports200 million TIV in 2024
- Arms exports20 million TIV in 2023