Zimbabwe
Military spending in Zimbabwe
Military spending in Zimbabwe: 1.19% of GDP in 1965 and 0.56% of GDP in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- 0.56% of GDP
- Since 1965
- −0.63 percentage points
- Rank, 2025
- 136 of 151
- counting from the highest
% of GDP · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was 8.52% of GDP in 1979, the lowest 0.21% of GDP in 2023.
Every year
% of GDP · SIPRI
| Year | Zimbabwe |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.56 |
| 2024 | 0.35 |
| 2023 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1.57 |
| 2020 | 0.98 |
| 2019 | 0.65 |
| 2018 | 1.18 |
| 2017 | 1.47 |
| 2016 | 1.74 |
| 2015 | 1.89 |
| 2014 | 1.89 |
| 2013 | 1.87 |
| 2012 | 1.86 |
| 2011 | 1.41 |
| 2010 | 0.82 |
| 2006 | 1.99 |
| 2005 | 1.45 |
| 2004 | 2.71 |
| 2003 | 2.04 |
| 2002 | 6.31 |
| 2001 | 2.55 |
| 2000 | 3.05 |
| 1999 | 2.24 |
| 1998 | 2.53 |
| 1997 | 3 |
| 1996 | 2.88 |
| 1995 | 3.18 |
| 1994 | 3.12 |
| 1993 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 3.98 |
| 1990 | 4.1 |
| 1989 | 4.93 |
| 1988 | 5.21 |
| 1987 | 5.82 |
| 1986 | 5.5 |
| 1985 | 5.49 |
| 1984 | 5.68 |
| 1983 | 5.56 |
| 1982 | 5.12 |
| 1981 | 4.86 |
| 1980 | 6.63 |
| 1979 | 8.52 |
| 1978 | 7.99 |
| 1977 | 6.54 |
| 1976 | 4.63 |
| 1975 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 2.98 |
| 1973 | 2.63 |
| 1972 | 2.18 |
| 1971 | 2.29 |
| 1970 | 2.44 |
| 1969 | 2.42 |
| 1968 | 2.07 |
| 1967 | 1.36 |
| 1966 | 1.32 |
| 1965 | 1.19 |
- 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$134M in 2025
- Military spending per person$10 in 2025
- Military share of state spending5.3% of government spending in 2005
- Armed forces personnel51,000 people in 2020
- National power0.08% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.88% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports20 million TIV in 2023
- Arms exports4 million TIV in 2001