Timor-Leste

Military spending in US dollars in Timor-Leste

Military spending in US dollars in Timor-Leste: $20M in 2005 and $47.5M in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.

Latest, 2025
$47.5M
Since 2005
+$27.5M
Rank, 2025
138 of 151
counting from the highest

US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI

Military spending in US dollars in Timor-LesteMilitary spending in US dollars in Timor-Leste: $20M in 2005 and $47.5M in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $70.3M in 2009, the lowest $20M in 2005.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $70.3M in 2009, the lowest $20M in 2005.

Every year

US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI

YearTimor-Leste
2025$47.5M
2024$43.4M
2023$56.3M
2022$49M
2021$46.4M
2020$47.2M
2019$42.5M
2018$25.7M
2017$32.4M
2016$33.6M
2015$46.7M
2014$37.6M
2013$40.6M
2012$47.5M
2011$32.6M
2010$47.6M
2009$70.3M
2008$45.9M
2007$50.2M
2006$39.9M
2005$20M
  • Estimate

Good to know

  • What the country spends on its armed forces and defence, in constant 2024 US dollars so that years compare, 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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