Pakistan
Military spending in US dollars in Pakistan
Military spending in US dollars in Pakistan: $630M in 1956 and $11.5B in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $11.5B
- Since 1956
- +$10.9B
- Rank, 2025
- 31 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $12B in 2021, the lowest $523M in 1957.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Pakistan |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $11.5B |
| 2024 | $10.3B |
| 2023 | $9.78B |
| 2022 | $11.2B |
| 2021 | $12B |
| 2020 | $11.5B |
| 2019 | $11.7B |
| 2018 | $11.8B |
| 2017 | $10.6B |
| 2016 | $9.66B |
| 2015 | $9.34B |
| 2014 | $8.6B |
| 2013 | $8.17B |
| 2012 | $7.9B |
| 2011 | $7.45B |
| 2010 | $7.07B |
| 2009 | $6.76B |
| 2008 | $6.56B |
| 2007 | $6.96B |
| 2006 | $6.91B |
| 2005 | $6.8B |
| 2004 | $6.53B |
| 2003 | $6.27B |
| 2002 | $5.87B |
| 2001 | $5.46B |
| 2000 | $5.1B |
| 1999 | $5.09B |
| 1998 | $5.04B |
| 1997 | $5.04B |
| 1996 | $5.27B |
| 1995 | $5.27B |
| 1994 | $5.18B |
| 1993 | $5.33B |
| 1992 | $5.36B |
| 1991 | $5.04B |
| 1990 | $4.71B |
| 1989 | $4.46B |
| 1988 | $4.45B |
| 1987 | $4.3B |
| 1986 | $3.93B |
| 1985 | $3.65B |
| 1984 | $3.36B |
| 1983 | $3.12B |
| 1982 | $2.8B |
| 1981 | $2.32B |
| 1980 | $2.14B |
| 1979 | $1.98B |
| 1978 | $1.87B |
| 1977 | $1.76B |
| 1976 | $1.77B |
| 1975 | $1.75B |
| 1974 | $1.67B |
| 1973 | $1.68B |
| 1972 | $1.8B |
| 1971 | $1.6B |
| 1970 | $1.44B |
| 1969 | $1.32B |
| 1968 | $1.21B |
| 1967 | $1.18B |
| 1966 | $1.45B |
| 1965 | $1.24B |
| 1964 | $770M |
| 1963 | $683M |
| 1962 | $632M |
| 1961 | $660M |
| 1960 | $666M |
| 1959 | $640M |
| 1958 | $543M |
| 1957 | $523M |
| 1956 | $630M |
- Estimate
Good to know
- What the country spends on its armed forces and defence, in constant 2024 US dollars so that years compare, 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 151 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
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- Military spending2.91% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending per person$47 in 2025
- Military share of state spending13.8% of government spending 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