Thailand

Military spending per person in Thailand

Military spending per person in Thailand: $34 in 1988 and $84 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.

Latest, 2025
$84
Since 1988
+$49
Rank, 2025
81 of 151
counting from the highest

US dollars per person · SIPRI

Military spending per person in ThailandMilitary spending per person in Thailand: $34 in 1988 and $84 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $102 in 2020, the lowest $27 in 2001.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $102 in 2020, the lowest $27 in 2001.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearThailand
2025$84
2024$77
2023$80
2022$84
2021$99
2020$102
2019$100
2018$93
2017$86
2016$79
2015$77
2014$80
2013$80
2012$78
2011$75
2010$76
2009$64
2008$54
2007$40
2006$32
2005$28
2004$30
2003$29
2002$28
2001$27
2000$30
1999$33
1998$35
1997$54
1996$66
1995$66
1994$62
1993$55
1992$53
1991$47
1990$41
1989$36
1988$34
  • 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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