Timor-Leste
Military spending per person in Timor-Leste
Military spending per person in Timor-Leste: $9 in 2005 and $34 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $34
- Since 2005
- +$25
- Rank, 2025
- 110 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $40 in 2023, the lowest $9 in 2005.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Timor-Leste |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $34 |
| 2024 | $31 |
| 2023 | $40 |
| 2022 | $33 |
| 2021 | $29 |
| 2020 | $29 |
| 2019 | $27 |
| 2018 | $16 |
| 2017 | $21 |
| 2016 | $22 |
| 2015 | $31 |
| 2014 | $25 |
| 2013 | $28 |
| 2012 | $30 |
| 2011 | $19 |
| 2010 | $25 |
| 2009 | $35 |
| 2008 | $23 |
| 2007 | $24 |
| 2006 | $18 |
| 2005 | $9 |
- 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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Timor-Leste in numbers
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Military
- Military spending2.26% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$47.5M 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