Switzerland
Military spending per person in Switzerland
Military spending per person in Switzerland: $499 in 1988 and $849 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $849
- Since 1988
- +$350
- Rank, 2025
- 27 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $849 in 2025, the lowest $384 in 2001.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Switzerland |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $849 |
| 2024 | $735 |
| 2023 | $714 |
| 2022 | $647 |
| 2021 | $633 |
| 2020 | $666 |
| 2019 | $588 |
| 2018 | $558 |
| 2017 | $550 |
| 2016 | $549 |
| 2015 | $549 |
| 2014 | $567 |
| 2013 | $626 |
| 2012 | $577 |
| 2011 | $632 |
| 2010 | $529 |
| 2009 | $527 |
| 2008 | $540 |
| 2007 | $470 |
| 2006 | $447 |
| 2005 | $470 |
| 2004 | $476 |
| 2003 | $448 |
| 2002 | $398 |
| 2001 | $384 |
| 2000 | $391 |
| 1999 | $442 |
| 1998 | $492 |
| 1997 | $494 |
| 1996 | $600 |
| 1995 | $662 |
| 1994 | $560 |
| 1993 | $523 |
| 1992 | $605 |
| 1991 | $595 |
| 1990 | $608 |
| 1989 | $466 |
| 1988 | $499 |
- 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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Switzerland in numbers
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Military
- Military spending0.76% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$7.15B in 2025
- Military share of state spending2.4% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel20,000 people in 2020
- National power0.12% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.4% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports33 million TIV in 2023
- Arms exports129 million TIV in 2025
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