Uruguay

Military spending per person in Uruguay

Military spending per person in Uruguay: $85 in 1988 and $577 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.

Latest, 2025
$577
Since 1988
+$492
Rank, 2025
35 of 151
counting from the highest

US dollars per person · SIPRI

Military spending per person in UruguayMilitary spending per person in Uruguay: $85 in 1988 and $577 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $577 in 2025, the lowest $82 in 2003.
Estimates, SIPRISIPRI estimate

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $577 in 2025, the lowest $82 in 2003.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearUruguay
2025$577
2024$467
2023$446
2022$383
2021$367
2020$321
2019$340
2018$375
2017$344
2016$293
2015$289
2014$309
2013$313
2012$278
2011$248
2010$228
2009$175
2008$172
2007$126
2006$120
2005$106
2004$85
2003$82
2002$105
2001$160
2000$171
1999$177
1998$177
1997$179
1996$180
1995$165
1994$142
1993$133
1992$117
1991$86
1990$106
1989$97
1988$85
  • 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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