Saudi Arabia
Military spending in US dollars in Saudi Arabia
Military spending in US dollars in Saudi Arabia: $929M in 1963 and $81.5B in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $81.5B
- Since 1963
- +$80.5B
- Rank, 2025
- 7 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $102B in 2015, the lowest $929M in 1963.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Saudi Arabia |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $81.5B |
| 2024 | $80.3B |
| 2023 | $79.1B |
| 2022 | $73.8B |
| 2021 | $67.4B |
| 2020 | $71B |
| 2019 | $74.3B |
| 2018 | $83.8B |
| 2017 | $81B |
| 2016 | $72.6B |
| 2015 | $102B |
| 2014 | $95.2B |
| 2013 | $80.7B |
| 2012 | $70.5B |
| 2011 | $62.3B |
| 2010 | $61.4B |
| 2009 | $59B |
| 2008 | $57.4B |
| 2007 | $58.5B |
| 2006 | $50.8B |
| 2005 | $44.6B |
| 2004 | $36.9B |
| 2003 | $33.3B |
| 2002 | $33B |
| 2001 | $37.6B |
| 2000 | $35.3B |
| 1999 | $32.1B |
| 1998 | $36B |
| 1997 | $31.2B |
| 1996 | $23B |
| 1995 | $23B |
| 1994 | $26.1B |
| 1993 | $30.2B |
| 1992 | $28.5B |
| 1991 | $30.4B |
| 1990 | $31.8B |
| 1989 | $25.3B |
| 1988 | $26.8B |
| 1987 | $29.3B |
| 1985 | $32.9B |
| 1984 | $39.9B |
| 1983 | $37.1B |
| 1982 | $45.7B |
| 1981 | $41B |
| 1980 | $35.2B |
| 1979 | $31.5B |
| 1978 | $24.5B |
| 1977 | $21.6B |
| 1973 | $7.36B |
| 1972 | $5.7B |
| 1971 | $4.06B |
| 1970 | $3.42B |
| 1969 | $3.12B |
| 1968 | $2.55B |
| 1967 | $2.57B |
| 1966 | $2.34B |
| 1965 | $1.41B |
| 1964 | $982M |
| 1963 | $929M |
- 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 spending6.48% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending per person$2,428 in 2025
- Military share of state spending23.5% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel282,000 people in 2020
- National power1.34% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.92% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports3.04 billion TIV in 2025
- Arms exports3 million TIV in 2023