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

Military spending per person in SwitzerlandMilitary spending per person in Switzerland: $499 in 1988 and $849 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $849 in 2025, the lowest $384 in 2001.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $849 in 2025, the lowest $384 in 2001.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearSwitzerland
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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