Zimbabwe
Military spending per person in Zimbabwe
Military spending per person in Zimbabwe: $43 in 1988 and $10 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates.
- Latest, 2025
- $10
- Since 1988
- −$34
- Rank, 2025
- 140 of 151
- counting from the highest
US dollars per person · SIPRI
What the numbers say
- The highest was $56 in 2002, the lowest $6 in 2024.
Every year
US dollars per person · SIPRI
| Year | Zimbabwe |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $10 |
| 2024 | $6 |
| 2023 | $54 |
| 2022 | $21 |
| 2021 | $30 |
| 2020 | $16 |
| 2019 | $36 |
| 2018 | $28 |
| 2017 | $23 |
| 2016 | $25 |
| 2015 | $26 |
| 2014 | $26 |
| 2013 | $26 |
| 2012 | $23 |
| 2011 | $15 |
| 2010 | $7 |
| 2006 | $13 |
| 2005 | $11 |
| 2004 | $21 |
| 2003 | $16 |
| 2002 | $56 |
| 2001 | $24 |
| 2000 | $29 |
| 1999 | $22 |
| 1998 | $27 |
| 1997 | $28 |
| 1996 | $26 |
| 1995 | $24 |
| 1994 | $23 |
| 1993 | $23 |
| 1992 | $28 |
| 1991 | $37 |
| 1990 | $42 |
| 1989 | $42 |
| 1988 | $43 |
- Highly uncertain
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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- Military spending0.56% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$134M 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