Poland
Military spending in US dollars in Poland
Military spending in US dollars in Poland: $6.54B in 1970 and $42.5B in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $42.5B
- Since 1970
- +$36B
- Rank, 2025
- 14 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $42.5B in 2025, the lowest $5.88B in 1992.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Poland |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $42.5B |
| 2024 | $34.5B |
| 2023 | $29B |
| 2022 | $19.9B |
| 2021 | $19.6B |
| 2020 | $18.7B |
| 2019 | $16.3B |
| 2018 | $16.1B |
| 2017 | $14.2B |
| 2016 | $13.9B |
| 2015 | $14.7B |
| 2014 | $12.3B |
| 2013 | $11.1B |
| 2012 | $11.2B |
| 2011 | $11.1B |
| 2010 | $10.9B |
| 2009 | $10.4B |
| 2008 | $9.89B |
| 2007 | $10.9B |
| 2006 | $9.63B |
| 2005 | $9.05B |
| 2004 | $8.48B |
| 2003 | $8.09B |
| 2002 | $7.78B |
| 2001 | $7.65B |
| 2000 | $7.41B |
| 1999 | $7.63B |
| 1998 | $7.75B |
| 1997 | $7.46B |
| 1996 | $6.81B |
| 1995 | $6.47B |
| 1994 | $6.43B |
| 1993 | $6.44B |
| 1992 | $5.88B |
| 1991 | $6.06B |
| 1990 | $8.61B |
| 1989 | $8.29B |
| 1988 | $10.2B |
| 1987 | $9.87B |
| 1986 | $10.2B |
| 1985 | $9.79B |
| 1984 | $9.08B |
| 1983 | $8.04B |
| 1982 | $9.03B |
| 1981 | $8.19B |
| 1980 | $8.11B |
| 1979 | $8.58B |
| 1978 | $8.54B |
| 1977 | $8.91B |
| 1976 | $8.38B |
| 1975 | $8.05B |
| 1974 | $7.56B |
| 1973 | $7.48B |
| 1972 | $7.02B |
| 1971 | $6.98B |
| 1970 | $6.54B |
- 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 spending4.5% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending per person$1,219 in 2025
- Military share of state spending9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel189,000 people in 2020
- National power0.52% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.04% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports2.17 billion TIV in 2025
- Arms exports59 million TIV in 2025