Russia
Military spending per person in Russia
Military spending per person in Russia: $52 in 1993 and $1,318 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $1,318
- Since 1993
- +$1,266
- Rank, 2025
- 13 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $1,318 in 2025, the lowest $44 in 1999.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Russia |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,318 |
| 2024 | $1,029 |
| 2023 | $750 |
| 2022 | $718 |
| 2021 | $451 |
| 2020 | $422 |
| 2019 | $445 |
| 2018 | $421 |
| 2017 | $458 |
| 2016 | $476 |
| 2015 | $458 |
| 2014 | $585 |
| 2013 | $612 |
| 2012 | $565 |
| 2011 | $488 |
| 2010 | $408 |
| 2009 | $358 |
| 2008 | $391 |
| 2007 | $303 |
| 2006 | $239 |
| 2005 | $189 |
| 2004 | $144 |
| 2003 | $116 |
| 2002 | $96 |
| 2001 | $80 |
| 2000 | $63 |
| 1999 | $44 |
| 1998 | $54 |
| 1997 | $119 |
| 1996 | $107 |
| 1995 | $86 |
| 1994 | $92 |
| 1993 | $52 |
- 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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- Military spending7.5% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$158B in 2025
- Military share of state spending19.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel1.45 million people in 2020
- National power3.82% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.98% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports129 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports1.94 billion TIV in 2025