Senegal
Military spending in Senegal
Military spending in Senegal: 3.43% of GDP in 1979 and 1.56% of GDP in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 1.56% of GDP
- Since 1979
- −1.88 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 81 of 151
- counting from the highest
% of GDP · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 3.43% of GDP in 1979, the lowest 1.05% of GDP in 2000.
Every year
% of GDP · SIPRI
| Year | Senegal |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.56 |
| 2024 | 1.97 |
| 2023 | 1.48 |
| 2022 | 1.52 |
| 2021 | 1.76 |
| 2020 | 1.41 |
| 2019 | 1.53 |
| 2018 | 1.67 |
| 2017 | 1.47 |
| 2016 | 1.6 |
| 2015 | 1.21 |
| 2014 | 1.21 |
| 2013 | 1.25 |
| 2012 | 1.11 |
| 2011 | 1.29 |
| 2010 | 1.22 |
| 2009 | 1.34 |
| 2008 | 1.29 |
| 2007 | 1.38 |
| 2006 | 1.27 |
| 2005 | 1.13 |
| 2004 | 1.06 |
| 2003 | 1.12 |
| 2002 | 1.1 |
| 2001 | 1.12 |
| 2000 | 1.05 |
| 1999 | 1.2 |
| 1998 | 1.18 |
| 1997 | 1.2 |
| 1996 | 1.24 |
| 1995 | 1.31 |
| 1994 | 1.35 |
| 1993 | 1.67 |
| 1992 | 1.44 |
| 1991 | 1.55 |
| 1990 | 1.63 |
| 1989 | 2.03 |
| 1988 | 2.11 |
| 1987 | 1.98 |
| 1986 | 2.04 |
| 1985 | 2.19 |
| 1984 | 2.41 |
| 1983 | 2.55 |
| 1982 | 2.35 |
| 1981 | 2.73 |
| 1980 | 2.76 |
| 1979 | 3.43 |
- Estimate
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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- Military spending in US dollars$533M in 2025
- Military spending per person$30 in 2025
- Military share of state spending5.2% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel19,000 people in 2020
- National power0.1% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.37% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports79 million TIV in 2024
- Arms exports3 million TIV in 1976