Sierra Leone

Military spending per person in Sierra Leone

Military spending per person in Sierra Leone: $2 in 1988 and $4 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.

Latest, 2025
$4
Since 1988
+$1
Rank, 2025
147 of 151
counting from the highest

US dollars per person · SIPRI

Military spending per person in Sierra LeoneMilitary spending per person in Sierra Leone: $2 in 1988 and $4 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $7 in 2014, the lowest $2 in 1997.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $7 in 2014, the lowest $2 in 1997.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearSierra Leone
2025$4
2024$6
2023$5
2022$5
2021$5
2020$4
2019$3
2018$4
2017$5
2016$6
2015$6
2014$7
2013$5
2012$5
2011$4
2010$4
2009$4
2008$4
2007$5
2006$5
2005$4
2004$4
2003$6
2002$6
2001$7
2000$5
1999$4
1998$2
1997$2
1996$4
1995$6
1994$6
1993$6
1992$6
1991$5
1990$3
1989$4
1988$2
  • 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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