Sri Lanka

Military spending per person in Sri Lanka

Military spending per person in Sri Lanka: $10 in 1988 and $60 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.

Latest, 2025
$60
Since 1988
+$50
Rank, 2025
95 of 151
counting from the highest

US dollars per person · SIPRI

Military spending per person in Sri LankaMilitary spending per person in Sri Lanka: $10 in 1988 and $60 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $95 in 2015, the lowest $8 in 1989.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $95 in 2015, the lowest $8 in 1989.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearSri Lanka
2025$60
2024$55
2023$48
2022$44
2021$67
2020$66
2019$70
2018$74
2017$85
2016$80
2015$95
2014$89
2013$75
2012$70
2011$84
2010$74
2009$74
2008$74
2007$52
2006$39
2005$32
2004$31
2003$27
2002$29
2001$35
2000$43
1999$34
1998$40
1997$39
1996$43
1995$44
1994$25
1993$21
1992$20
1991$17
1990$11
1989$8
1988$10
  • 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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