Trinidad & Tobago
Military spending in Trinidad & Tobago
Military spending in Trinidad & Tobago: 0.67% of GDP in 1968 and 0.94% of GDP in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 0.94% of GDP
- Since 1968
- +0.27 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 114 of 151
- counting from the highest
% of GDP · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 0.98% of GDP in 2024, the lowest 0.16% of GDP in 2001.
Every year
% of GDP · SIPRI
| Year | Trinidad & Tobago |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.94 |
| 2024 | 0.98 |
| 2023 | 0.96 |
| 2022 | 0.77 |
| 2021 | 0.86 |
| 2020 | 0.81 |
| 2019 | 0.73 |
| 2018 | 0.69 |
| 2017 | 0.85 |
| 2016 | 0.91 |
| 2015 | 0.75 |
| 2014 | 0.66 |
| 2013 | 0.76 |
| 2012 | 0.64 |
| 2011 | 0.57 |
| 2010 | 0.64 |
| 2009 | 0.71 |
| 2008 | 0.49 |
| 2007 | 0.57 |
| 2006 | 0.62 |
| 2005 | 0.6 |
| 2004 | 0.56 |
| 2003 | 0.29 |
| 2002 | 0.21 |
| 2001 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 0.49 |
| 1993 | 0.49 |
| 1981 | 0.51 |
| 1980 | 0.59 |
| 1979 | 0.59 |
| 1978 | 0.51 |
| 1977 | 0.49 |
| 1976 | 0.5 |
| 1975 | 0.44 |
| 1974 | 0.42 |
| 1973 | 0.68 |
| 1972 | 0.84 |
| 1971 | 0.96 |
| 1970 | 0.75 |
| 1969 | 0.68 |
| 1968 | 0.67 |
- Highly uncertain
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$228M in 2025
- Military spending per person$152 in 2025
- Military share of state spending2.5% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel5,000 people in 2020
- National power0.03% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.77% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports32 million TIV in 2021