Taiwan
Military share of state spending in Taiwan
Military share of state spending in Taiwan: 22.5% of government spending in 1988 and 12.4% of government spending in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 12.4% of government spending
- Since 1988
- −10.2 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 21 of 150
- counting from the highest
% of government spending · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 22.5% of government spending in 1988, the lowest 8.2% of government spending in 2000.
Every year
% of government spending · SIPRI
| Year | Taiwan |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 10.7 |
| 2023 | 11.4 |
| 2022 | 11.1 |
| 2021 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 10.4 |
| 2018 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 10.2 |
| 2016 | 10.1 |
| 2015 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 10 |
| 2012 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 10.2 |
| 2009 | 10.4 |
| 2008 | 10.9 |
| 2007 | 10.5 |
| 2006 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 10.2 |
| 2004 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2000 | 8.2 |
| 1999 | 13.8 |
| 1998 | 12.1 |
| 1997 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 16.5 |
| 1993 | 17.2 |
| 1992 | 16.1 |
| 1991 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 18.4 |
| 1989 | 16.2 |
| 1988 | 22.5 |
- Estimate
Good to know
- The part of everything the government spends that goes on its armed forces and defence, by SIPRI’s count.
- 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 150 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
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