Saudi Arabia

Military spending per person in Saudi Arabia

Military spending per person in Saudi Arabia: $1,423 in 1988 and $2,428 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.

Latest, 2025
$2,428
Since 1988
+$1,005
Rank, 2025
6 of 151
counting from the highest

US dollars per person · SIPRI

Military spending per person in Saudi ArabiaMilitary spending per person in Saudi Arabia: $1,423 in 1988 and $2,428 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $2,957 in 2015, the lowest $984 in 1996.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $2,957 in 2015, the lowest $984 in 1996.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearSaudi Arabia
2025$2,428
2024$2,386
2023$2,366
2022$2,253
2021$2,027
2020$2,095
2019$2,169
2018$2,439
2017$2,273
2016$2,090
2015$2,957
2014$2,833
2013$2,433
2012$2,125
2011$1,894
2010$1,833
2009$1,738
2008$1,675
2007$1,619
2006$1,408
2005$1,262
2004$1,088
2003$1,022
2002$1,059
2001$1,266
2000$1,268
1999$1,206
1998$1,424
1997$1,285
1996$984
1995$1,014
1994$1,144
1993$1,377
1992$1,345
1991$1,501
1990$1,575
1989$1,291
1988$1,423
  • 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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