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
What the numbers say
- The highest was $2,957 in 2015, the lowest $984 in 1996.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Saudi 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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- Military spending6.48% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$81.5B 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