Romania
Military spending per person in Romania
Military spending per person in Romania: $111 in 1988 and $513 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $513
- Since 1988
- +$402
- Rank, 2025
- 43 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $513 in 2025, the lowest $32 in 1993.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Romania |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $513 |
| 2024 | $436 |
| 2023 | $293 |
| 2022 | $271 |
| 2021 | $274 |
| 2020 | $260 |
| 2019 | $236 |
| 2018 | $222 |
| 2017 | $185 |
| 2016 | $134 |
| 2015 | $130 |
| 2014 | $135 |
| 2013 | $122 |
| 2012 | $104 |
| 2011 | $117 |
| 2010 | $102 |
| 2009 | $108 |
| 2008 | $144 |
| 2007 | $125 |
| 2006 | $107 |
| 2005 | $93 |
| 2004 | $71 |
| 2003 | $58 |
| 2002 | $48 |
| 2001 | $45 |
| 2000 | $42 |
| 1999 | $43 |
| 1998 | $56 |
| 1997 | $48 |
| 1996 | $39 |
| 1995 | $43 |
| 1994 | $41 |
| 1993 | $32 |
| 1992 | $36 |
| 1991 | $60 |
| 1990 | $76 |
| 1989 | $113 |
| 1988 | $111 |
- 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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Romania in numbers
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Military
- Military spending2.28% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$8.81B in 2025
- Military share of state spending5.6% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel128,000 people in 2020
- National power0.23% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.52% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports421 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports132 million TIV in 2025
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