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

Military spending per person in PakistanMilitary spending per person in Pakistan: $25 in 1988 and $47 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $51 in 2018, the lowest $18 in 2001.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $51 in 2018, the lowest $18 in 2001.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearPakistan
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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