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

Military spending per person in ZimbabweMilitary spending per person in Zimbabwe: $43 in 1988 and $10 in 2025, by SIPRI estimates. The highest was $56 in 2002, the lowest $6 in 2024.
Estimates, SIPRIHighly uncertain

What the numbers say

  • The highest was $56 in 2002, the lowest $6 in 2024.

Every year

US dollars per person · SIPRI

YearZimbabwe
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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