Vietnam
Military spending per person in Vietnam
Military spending per person in Vietnam: $21 in 1988 and $104 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $104
- Since 1988
- +$83
- Rank, 2025
- 76 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $104 in 2025, the lowest $4 in 1993.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Vietnam |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $104 |
| 2024 | $85 |
| 2023 | $80 |
| 2022 | $71 |
| 2021 | $76 |
| 2020 | $73 |
| 2019 | $75 |
| 2018 | $72 |
| 2017 | $68 |
| 2016 | $68 |
| 2015 | $66 |
| 2014 | $62 |
| 2013 | $61 |
| 2012 | $53 |
| 2011 | $34 |
| 2010 | $31 |
| 2009 | $34 |
| 2008 | $24 |
| 2007 | $22 |
| 2006 | $16 |
| 2005 | $13 |
| 2004 | $11 |
| 2003 | $11 |
| 1994 | $6 |
| 1993 | $4 |
| 1992 | $5 |
| 1991 | $6 |
| 1990 | $8 |
| 1989 | $7 |
| 1988 | $21 |
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.
- Ranks count the 151 countries with a value in 2025, highest first.
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- Military spending2.15% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$10.9B in 2025
- Military share of state spending9.9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel522,000 people in 2020
- National power1.11% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.95% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports177 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports10 million TIV in 2018