Taiwan
Military spending per person in Taiwan
Military spending per person in Taiwan: $353 in 1988 and $785 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $785
- Since 1988
- +$432
- Rank, 2025
- 31 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $785 in 2025, the lowest $330 in 2003.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Taiwan |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $785 |
| 2024 | $655 |
| 2023 | $699 |
| 2022 | $650 |
| 2021 | $589 |
| 2020 | $508 |
| 2019 | $465 |
| 2018 | $444 |
| 2017 | $444 |
| 2016 | $410 |
| 2015 | $417 |
| 2014 | $418 |
| 2013 | $426 |
| 2012 | $451 |
| 2011 | $430 |
| 2010 | $392 |
| 2009 | $395 |
| 2008 | $389 |
| 2007 | $355 |
| 2006 | $334 |
| 2005 | $352 |
| 2004 | $345 |
| 2003 | $330 |
| 2002 | $335 |
| 2001 | $357 |
| 2000 | $395 |
| 1999 | $433 |
| 1998 | $420 |
| 1997 | $520 |
| 1996 | $544 |
| 1995 | $535 |
| 1994 | $562 |
| 1993 | $553 |
| 1992 | $482 |
| 1991 | $450 |
| 1990 | $424 |
| 1989 | $401 |
| 1988 | $353 |
- 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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