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

Military spending per person in Timor-LesteMilitary spending per person in Timor-Leste: $9 in 2005 and $34 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $40 in 2023, the lowest $9 in 2005.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $40 in 2023, the lowest $9 in 2005.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearTimor-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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