Pakistan
Military spending per person in Pakistan
Military spending per person in Pakistan: $25 in 1988 and $47 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $47
- Since 1988
- +$21
- Rank, 2025
- 101 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $51 in 2018, the lowest $18 in 2001.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Pakistan |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $47 |
| 2024 | $41 |
| 2023 | $35 |
| 2022 | $43 |
| 2021 | $49 |
| 2020 | $44 |
| 2019 | $45 |
| 2018 | $51 |
| 2017 | $51 |
| 2016 | $46 |
| 2015 | $44 |
| 2014 | $41 |
| 2013 | $37 |
| 2012 | $36 |
| 2011 | $35 |
| 2010 | $30 |
| 2009 | $27 |
| 2008 | $28 |
| 2007 | $29 |
| 2006 | $28 |
| 2005 | $26 |
| 2004 | $24 |
| 2003 | $23 |
| 2002 | $20 |
| 2001 | $18 |
| 2000 | $19 |
| 1999 | $21 |
| 1998 | $22 |
| 1997 | $24 |
| 1996 | $26 |
| 1995 | $28 |
| 1994 | $26 |
| 1993 | $26 |
| 1992 | $28 |
| 1991 | $26 |
| 1990 | $25 |
| 1989 | $23 |
| 1988 | $25 |
- 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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Pakistan in numbers
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- Military spending2.91% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$11.5B 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