Zimbabwe
Military spending in US dollars in Zimbabwe
Military spending in US dollars in Zimbabwe: $37.6M in 1980 and $134M in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $134M
- Since 1980
- +$95.9M
- Rank, 2025
- 126 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $224M in 2002, the lowest $23.8M in 2010.
Every year
US dollars at 2024 prices · SIPRI
| Year | Zimbabwe |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $134M |
| 2024 | $98.4M |
| 2023 | $64.9M |
| 2022 | $172M |
| 2021 | $193M |
| 2020 | $106M |
| 2019 | $79.9M |
| 2018 | $87.3M |
| 2017 | $78.2M |
| 2016 | $83M |
| 2015 | $85.9M |
| 2014 | $81.9M |
| 2013 | $79.2M |
| 2012 | $71.9M |
| 2011 | $46.5M |
| 2010 | $23.8M |
| 2006 | $30.1M |
| 2005 | $32.5M |
| 2004 | $43.3M |
| 2003 | $70.4M |
| 2002 | $224M |
| 2001 | $62.1M |
| 2000 | $47.1M |
| 1999 | $37.4M |
| 1998 | $37.7M |
| 1997 | $27.6M |
| 1996 | $25.6M |
| 1995 | $24.4M |
| 1994 | $26.6M |
| 1993 | $26M |
| 1992 | $31M |
| 1991 | $38.1M |
| 1990 | $36.7M |
| 1989 | $36.5M |
| 1988 | $34.9M |
| 1987 | $33.4M |
| 1986 | $32.8M |
| 1985 | $32.8M |
| 1984 | $32.1M |
| 1983 | $37.7M |
| 1982 | $35M |
| 1981 | $31.4M |
| 1980 | $37.6M |
- 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 spending0.56% of GDP 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