Spain
Military spending per person in Spain
Military spending per person in Spain: $229 in 1988 and $839 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $839
- Since 1988
- +$611
- Rank, 2025
- 29 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Spain |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $839 |
| 2024 | $526 |
| 2023 | $518 |
| 2022 | $434 |
| 2021 | $419 |
| 2020 | $366 |
| 2019 | $364 |
| 2018 | $380 |
| 2017 | $343 |
| 2016 | $300 |
| 2015 | $325 |
| 2014 | $367 |
| 2013 | $367 |
| 2012 | $401 |
| 2011 | $420 |
| 2010 | $422 |
| 2009 | $434 |
| 2008 | $484 |
| 2007 | $445 |
| 2006 | $389 |
| 2005 | $367 |
| 2004 | $356 |
| 2003 | $306 |
| 2002 | $248 |
| 2001 | $249 |
| 2000 | $251 |
| 1999 | $273 |
| 1998 | $255 |
| 1997 | $245 |
| 1996 | $281 |
| 1995 | $286 |
| 1994 | $254 |
| 1993 | $254 |
| 1992 | $312 |
| 1991 | $299 |
| 1990 | $299 |
| 1989 | $239 |
| 1988 | $229 |
- 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 spending2.13% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$37.7B in 2025
- Military share of state spending4.7% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel199,000 people in 2020
- National power0.66% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.87% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports237 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports341 million TIV in 2025