Trinidad & Tobago
Military spending in US dollars in Trinidad & Tobago
Military spending in US dollars in Trinidad & Tobago: $83.8M in 1968 and $228M in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $228M
- Since 1968
- +$144M
- Rank, 2025
- 114 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $273M in 2013, the lowest $39.1M in 2001.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Trinidad & Tobago |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $228M |
| 2024 | $238M |
| 2023 | $246M |
| 2022 | $230M |
| 2021 | $232M |
| 2020 | $194M |
| 2019 | $198M |
| 2018 | $192M |
| 2017 | $236M |
| 2016 | $254M |
| 2015 | $234M |
| 2014 | $230M |
| 2013 | $273M |
| 2012 | $229M |
| 2011 | $216M |
| 2010 | $221M |
| 2009 | $235M |
| 2008 | $251M |
| 2007 | $254M |
| 2006 | $253M |
| 2005 | $231M |
| 2004 | $192M |
| 2003 | $88.4M |
| 2002 | $52.6M |
| 2001 | $39.1M |
| 1994 | $86.8M |
| 1993 | $79.8M |
| 1981 | $170M |
| 1980 | $204M |
| 1979 | $177M |
| 1978 | $136M |
| 1977 | $126M |
| 1976 | $117M |
| 1975 | $98.2M |
| 1974 | $87.2M |
| 1973 | $106M |
| 1972 | $121M |
| 1971 | $129M |
| 1970 | $97.2M |
| 1969 | $84.6M |
| 1968 | $83.8M |
- Highly uncertain
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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- Military spending0.94% of GDP 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