Sweden
Military spending per person in Sweden
Military spending per person in Sweden: $585 in 1988 and $1,549 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $1,549
- Since 1988
- +$965
- Rank, 2025
- 10 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $1,549 in 2025, the lowest $465 in 2001.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Sweden |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,549 |
| 2024 | $1,139 |
| 2023 | $835 |
| 2022 | $739 |
| 2021 | $731 |
| 2020 | $607 |
| 2019 | $571 |
| 2018 | $567 |
| 2017 | $554 |
| 2016 | $551 |
| 2015 | $553 |
| 2014 | $680 |
| 2013 | $683 |
| 2012 | $658 |
| 2011 | $672 |
| 2010 | $630 |
| 2009 | $547 |
| 2008 | $656 |
| 2007 | $701 |
| 2006 | $616 |
| 2005 | $612 |
| 2004 | $614 |
| 2003 | $593 |
| 2002 | $489 |
| 2001 | $465 |
| 2000 | $541 |
| 1999 | $582 |
| 1998 | $580 |
| 1997 | $588 |
| 1996 | $702 |
| 1995 | $650 |
| 1994 | $590 |
| 1993 | $577 |
| 1992 | $743 |
| 1991 | $724 |
| 1990 | $724 |
| 1989 | $595 |
| 1988 | $585 |
- 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 spending2.47% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$15B in 2025
- Military share of state spending5% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel15,000 people in 2020
- National power0.19% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.27% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports146 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports235 million TIV in 2025