Peru
Military spending per person in Peru
Military spending per person in Peru: $35 in 1988 and $75 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $75
- Since 1988
- +$40
- Rank, 2025
- 86 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $111 in 2013, the lowest $31 in 2002.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Peru |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $75 |
| 2024 | $75 |
| 2023 | $98 |
| 2022 | $84 |
| 2021 | $80 |
| 2020 | $81 |
| 2019 | $85 |
| 2018 | $84 |
| 2017 | $86 |
| 2016 | $83 |
| 2015 | $109 |
| 2014 | $107 |
| 2013 | $111 |
| 2012 | $97 |
| 2011 | $81 |
| 2010 | $75 |
| 2009 | $64 |
| 2008 | $53 |
| 2007 | $47 |
| 2006 | $46 |
| 2005 | $43 |
| 2004 | $33 |
| 2003 | $32 |
| 2002 | $31 |
| 2001 | $34 |
| 2000 | $35 |
| 1999 | $38 |
| 1998 | $45 |
| 1997 | $47 |
| 1996 | $57 |
| 1995 | $59 |
| 1994 | $47 |
| 1993 | $41 |
| 1992 | $40 |
| 1991 | $31 |
| 1990 | $36 |
| 1989 | $41 |
| 1988 | $35 |
- Estimate
- Highly uncertain
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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Peru in numbers
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- Military spending0.81% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$2.43B in 2025
- Military share of state spending3.7% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel158,000 people in 2020
- National power0.28% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.94% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports90 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports5 million TIV in 2004