Oman
Military spending per person in Oman
Military spending per person in Oman: $744 in 1988 and $1,109 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $1,109
- Since 1988
- +$365
- Rank, 2025
- 20 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $2,759 in 2012, the lowest $597 in 1998.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Oman |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,109 |
| 2024 | $1,159 |
| 2023 | $1,186 |
| 2022 | $1,278 |
| 2021 | $1,293 |
| 2020 | $1,334 |
| 2019 | $1,421 |
| 2018 | $1,650 |
| 2017 | $1,515 |
| 2016 | $1,849 |
| 2015 | $1,847 |
| 2014 | $2,092 |
| 2013 | $2,343 |
| 2012 | $2,759 |
| 2011 | $1,786 |
| 2010 | $1,353 |
| 2009 | $1,268 |
| 2008 | $1,333 |
| 2007 | $1,276 |
| 2006 | $1,215 |
| 2005 | $1,126 |
| 2004 | $938 |
| 2003 | $838 |
| 2002 | $804 |
| 2001 | $793 |
| 2000 | $696 |
| 1999 | $599 |
| 1998 | $597 |
| 1997 | $682 |
| 1996 | $672 |
| 1995 | $720 |
| 1994 | $737 |
| 1993 | $727 |
| 1992 | $801 |
| 1991 | $694 |
| 1990 | $842 |
| 1989 | $718 |
| 1988 | $744 |
- 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 spending5.68% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$5.94B in 2025
- Military share of state spending20% of government spending 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