Nigeria
Military spending per person in Nigeria
Military spending per person in Nigeria: $3 in 1988 and $9 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $9
- Since 1988
- +$6
- Rank, 2025
- 141 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $21 in 2021, the lowest $2 in 1992.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Nigeria |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $9 |
| 2024 | $5 |
| 2023 | $14 |
| 2022 | $14 |
| 2021 | $21 |
| 2020 | $13 |
| 2019 | $11 |
| 2018 | $11 |
| 2017 | $8 |
| 2016 | $9 |
| 2015 | $11 |
| 2014 | $13 |
| 2013 | $14 |
| 2012 | $13 |
| 2011 | $14 |
| 2010 | $12 |
| 2009 | $9 |
| 2008 | $10 |
| 2007 | $6 |
| 2006 | $5 |
| 2005 | $5 |
| 2004 | $5 |
| 2003 | $4 |
| 2002 | $7 |
| 2001 | $4 |
| 2000 | $3 |
| 1999 | $4 |
| 1998 | $10 |
| 1997 | $7 |
| 1996 | $6 |
| 1995 | $6 |
| 1994 | $3 |
| 1993 | $3 |
| 1992 | $2 |
| 1991 | $2 |
| 1990 | $3 |
| 1989 | $2 |
| 1988 | $3 |
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 spending0.91% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$1.76B in 2025
- Military share of state spending5.9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel223,000 people in 2020
- National power1.16% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.23% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports21 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports4 million TIV in 2022