Pakistan
Military share of state spending in Pakistan
Military share of state spending in Pakistan: 25.1% of government spending in 1993 and 13.8% of government spending in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 13.8% of government spending
- Since 1993
- −11.3 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 17 of 150
- counting from the highest
% of government spending · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 27.4% of government spending in 1994, the lowest 13.8% of government spending in 2025.
Every year
% of government spending · SIPRI
| Year | Pakistan |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 13.8 |
| 2024 | 14 |
| 2023 | 15 |
| 2022 | 15.9 |
| 2021 | 18.4 |
| 2020 | 17.2 |
| 2019 | 18.4 |
| 2018 | 18.8 |
| 2017 | 17.6 |
| 2016 | 18.1 |
| 2015 | 18 |
| 2014 | 17.3 |
| 2013 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 16.1 |
| 2011 | 17 |
| 2010 | 16.8 |
| 2009 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 16.1 |
| 2007 | 18 |
| 2006 | 21.4 |
| 2005 | 24.5 |
| 2004 | 26.1 |
| 2003 | 25.4 |
| 2002 | 22.6 |
| 2001 | 24 |
| 2000 | 22.4 |
| 1999 | 24 |
| 1998 | 23.5 |
| 1997 | 25 |
| 1996 | 24.6 |
| 1995 | 27.2 |
| 1994 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 25.1 |
- 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 spending2.91% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$11.5B in 2025
- Military spending per person$47 in 2025
- Armed forces personnel943,000 people in 2020
- National power1.77% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.25% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports706 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports127 million TIV in 2025