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

Military spending per person in New ZealandMilitary spending per person in New Zealand: $291 in 1988 and $546 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $589 in 2023, the lowest $206 in 2001.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $589 in 2023, the lowest $206 in 2001.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearNew 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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