Taiwan
Military spending in Taiwan
Military spending in Taiwan: 6.24% of GDP in 1976 and 2.1% of GDP in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 2.1% of GDP
- Since 1976
- −4.14 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 52 of 151
- counting from the highest
% of GDP · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 7.58% of GDP in 1979, the lowest 1.72% of GDP in 2018.
Every year
% of GDP · SIPRI
| Year | Taiwan |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.1 |
| 2024 | 1.91 |
| 2023 | 2.16 |
| 2022 | 1.99 |
| 2021 | 1.79 |
| 2020 | 1.77 |
| 2019 | 1.79 |
| 2018 | 1.72 |
| 2017 | 1.77 |
| 2016 | 1.78 |
| 2015 | 1.83 |
| 2014 | 1.83 |
| 2013 | 1.94 |
| 2012 | 2.12 |
| 2011 | 2.07 |
| 2010 | 2.05 |
| 2009 | 2.33 |
| 2008 | 2.15 |
| 2007 | 2.01 |
| 2006 | 1.98 |
| 2005 | 2.14 |
| 2004 | 2.26 |
| 2003 | 2.35 |
| 2002 | 2.45 |
| 2001 | 2.67 |
| 2000 | 2.66 |
| 1999 | 3.15 |
| 1998 | 3.3 |
| 1997 | 3.73 |
| 1996 | 4.02 |
| 1995 | 4.11 |
| 1994 | 4.67 |
| 1993 | 4.96 |
| 1992 | 4.7 |
| 1991 | 4.97 |
| 1990 | 5.23 |
| 1989 | 5.28 |
| 1988 | 5.14 |
| 1987 | 4.93 |
| 1986 | 5.44 |
| 1985 | 6.09 |
| 1984 | 5.73 |
| 1983 | 6.34 |
| 1982 | 6.99 |
| 1981 | 6.65 |
| 1980 | 7.29 |
| 1979 | 7.58 |
| 1978 | 7.02 |
| 1977 | 6.92 |
| 1976 | 6.24 |
- Estimate
Good to know
- What the country spends on its armed forces and defence, as a share of its economy, 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 151 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
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