Oman
Military share of state spending in Oman
Military share of state spending in Oman: 29.6% of government spending in 1990 and 20% of government spending in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 20% of government spending
- Since 1990
- −9.6 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 5 of 150
- counting from the highest
% of government spending · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 29.6% of government spending in 1990, the lowest 17% of government spending in 2022.
Every year
% of government spending · SIPRI
| Year | Oman |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 |
| 2024 | 19.5 |
| 2023 | 20.1 |
| 2022 | 17 |
| 2021 | 18.2 |
| 2020 | 18 |
| 2019 | 19.2 |
| 2018 | 21.6 |
| 2017 | 21.3 |
| 2016 | 23.7 |
| 2015 | 21.5 |
| 2014 | 21.4 |
| 2013 | 24.8 |
| 2012 | 27.4 |
| 2011 | 18.7 |
| 2010 | 18.5 |
| 2009 | 18.2 |
| 2008 | 19.4 |
| 2007 | 21.9 |
| 2006 | 23.6 |
| 2005 | 25.2 |
| 2004 | 23.1 |
| 2003 | 23.5 |
| 2002 | 23.7 |
| 2001 | 24.6 |
| 2000 | 22.7 |
| 1999 | 22 |
| 1998 | 22.7 |
| 1997 | 25.4 |
| 1996 | 24.5 |
| 1995 | 25 |
| 1994 | 25.8 |
| 1993 | 25.1 |
| 1992 | 26.5 |
| 1991 | 25.8 |
| 1990 | 29.6 |
- Estimate
Good to know
- The part of everything the government spends that goes on its armed forces and defence, 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 150 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
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- Military spending5.68% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$5.94B in 2025
- Military spending per person$1,109 in 2025
- Armed forces personnel47,000 people in 2020
- National power0.17% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers2.12% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports4 million TIV in 2023
- Arms exports7 million TIV in 2017