Countries by Military Spending Per Capita 2023
Key Findings
About This Dataset
Countries by Military Spending Per Capita 2023Israel tops the list at nearly $3,000 per person, reflecting its high defence burden relative to a small population. The United States is second at $2,694 - the only large-population country near the top, which is why it dwarfs everyone in total spending. Wealthy, security-focused states dominate the rest: Singapore ($2,195), Saudi Arabia ($2,052) and Kuwait ($1,799). Ukraine ($1,762) appears high because of its wartime mobilisation. Strikingly, four of the top ten are Nordic or Northern European - Norway ($1,584), Denmark ($1,378) and Finland ($1,325) - showing how heightened regional tensions have pushed prosperous democracies to spend heavily per head. The list is populated by rich or heavily militarised states rather than the world's biggest overall spenders.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 10 observations
- Measure
- Military Spending Per Capita 2023 (US$)
- Last updated
- 13 July 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
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