Saudi Arabia

Military spending in Saudi Arabia

Military spending in Saudi Arabia: 5.9% of GDP in 1963 and 6.48% of GDP in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.

Latest, 2025
6.48% of GDP
Since 1963
+0.58 percentage points
Rank, 2025
5 of 151
counting from the highest
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% of GDP · SIPRI

Military spending in Saudi ArabiaMilitary spending in Saudi Arabia: 5.9% of GDP in 1963 and 6.48% of GDP in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was 19% of GDP in 1984, the lowest 5.72% of GDP in 2022.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 19% of GDP in 1984, the lowest 5.72% of GDP in 2022.

Every year

% of GDP · SIPRI

YearSaudi Arabia
20256.48
20246.41
20236.38
20225.72
20216.43
20208.41
20197.35
20188.42
20179.5
20169.24
201512.57
201410.26
20138.71
20127.51
20117.13
20108.57
20099.62
20087.35
20078.53
20067.85
20057.73
20048.08
20038.69
20029.76
200111.42
200010.53
199911.38
199814.31
199711
19968.47
19959.28
199410.64
199312.47
199211.28
199112.47
199014.02
198913.39
198815.15
198716.9
198517
198419
198316.97
198217.72
198113.27
198012.61
197915.77
197816.74
197715.65
197310.84
197210.08
19718.64
19709.4
19699.57
19688.09
196711.51
196611.32
19657.69
19645.97
19635.9
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Good to know

  • What the country spends on its armed forces and defence, as a share of its economy, 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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