Timor-Leste
Military spending in Timor-Leste
Military spending in Timor-Leste: 1.78% of GDP in 2005 and 2.26% of GDP in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 2.26% of GDP
- Since 2005
- +0.47 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 47 of 151
- counting from the highest
% of GDP · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 5.02% of GDP in 2009, the lowest 1.08% of GDP in 2021.
Every year
% of GDP · SIPRI
| Year | Timor-Leste |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.26 |
| 2024 | 2.16 |
| 2023 | 2.65 |
| 2022 | 1.38 |
| 2021 | 1.08 |
| 2020 | 1.78 |
| 2019 | 1.69 |
| 2018 | 1.33 |
| 2017 | 1.61 |
| 2016 | 1.6 |
| 2015 | 2.32 |
| 2014 | 2.05 |
| 2013 | 2.27 |
| 2012 | 2.88 |
| 2011 | 1.97 |
| 2010 | 2.99 |
| 2009 | 5.02 |
| 2008 | 3.65 |
| 2007 | 4.37 |
| 2006 | 3.77 |
| 2005 | 1.78 |
- 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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- Military spending in US dollars$47.5M in 2025
- Military spending per person$34 in 2025
- Military share of state spending2.4% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel2,000 people in 2020
- National power0.01% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.36% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports14 million TIV in 2011