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
What the numbers say
- The highest was $95 in 2015, the lowest $8 in 1989.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Sri 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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Sri Lanka in numbers
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- Military spending1.31% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$1.36B in 2025
- Military share of state spending4.9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel317,000 people in 2020
- National power0.31% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers3.74% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports11 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports8 million TIV in 1998