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Ministry of Defence · organisational budget

2004–2026 58 observations2026: $711.12 Mn* Initial approved budget
Annual spending: 2004–2026, USD · current pricesEach bar opens its figures and sources on the spending page. Blank years are gaps, not zero spending.$0$500 Mn$1 Bn$1.5 Bn20042004: $89.74 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 26 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average Reported 2004 cash execution in the official MoF annual-account annex, code 26 00, PDF p. 60 (repeated p. 251). The archive files it under 2005, but the accompanying account explicitly concerns 2004. Its government-report text is marked draft; parliamentary approval/audit was not established. This is reported execution, not audited assurance. The 2004 transfer of Internal Troops to the ministry affects comparability. As-of date is source review.2005: $202.33 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 29, 2006. Annual average 2005 actual-execution comparative in the original 2007 budget law, code 29 00, PDF p. 71. This is the 2007-law vintage, not a directly recovered 2005 annual execution report. The MoD 2014 White Book independently rounds 2005 execution to 367 million GEL. No unchanged institutional-coverage assumption is made. The as-of date is the 2007 law date.2006: $220.49 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 23, 2005. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2006 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2006: $381.93 Mn. Revised. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average Year-end approved ministry plan as reported in the MoF annual execution table, after changes to the original allocation. It is entered as revised, not as the initial approval. The separately reported administrative adjusted plan is 684.9194 million GEL; that figure is retained in the evidence ledger and is not substituted for this statutory plan. Original unit: thousand GEL. As-of date is source review, not the unknown amendment adoption date.2006: $384.19 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average MoF annual execution report: actual-execution total for ministry code 29 00, including any externally financed execution included by the source. Original unit: thousand GEL. This preserves the contemporaneous annual-report value; later budget laws sometimes restate historical comparatives. Ministry coverage is not constant over time and is not the functional-defence or SIPRI definition. As-of date is the source review date; the original report publication day was not established.2007: $307.25 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 29, 2006. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2007 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2007: $894.66 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average MoF annual execution report: actual-execution total for ministry code 29 00, including any externally financed execution included by the source. Original unit: thousand GEL. This preserves the contemporaneous annual-report value; later budget laws sometimes restate historical comparatives. Ministry coverage is not constant over time and is not the functional-defence or SIPRI definition. As-of date is the source review date; the original report publication day was not established.2008: $737.86 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 28, 2007. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2008 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2008: $1.03 Bn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average MoF annual execution report: actual-execution total for ministry code 29 00, including any externally financed execution included by the source. Original unit: thousand GEL. This preserves the contemporaneous annual-report value; later budget laws sometimes restate historical comparatives. Ministry coverage is not constant over time and is not the functional-defence or SIPRI definition. As-of date is the source review date; the original report publication day was not established.2009: $563.9 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 30, 2008. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2009 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2009: $522.11 Mn. Revised. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average Year-end approved ministry plan as reported in the MoF annual execution table, after changes to the original allocation. It is entered as revised, not as the initial approval. The separately reported administrative adjusted plan is 869.2861 million GEL; that figure is retained in the evidence ledger and is not substituted for this statutory plan. Original unit: thousand GEL. As-of date is source review, not the unknown amendment adoption date.2009: $520.21 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average MoF annual execution report: actual-execution total for ministry code 29 00, including any externally financed execution included by the source. Original unit: thousand GEL. This preserves the contemporaneous annual-report value; later budget laws sometimes restate historical comparatives. Ministry coverage is not constant over time and is not the functional-defence or SIPRI definition. As-of date is the source review date; the original report publication day was not established.20102010: $420.54 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 4, 2009. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2010 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2010: $420.07 Mn. Revised. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average Year-end approved ministry plan as reported in the MoF annual execution table, after changes to the original allocation. It is entered as revised, not as the initial approval. The separately reported administrative adjusted plan is 748.7219 million GEL; that figure is retained in the evidence ledger and is not substituted for this statutory plan. Original unit: thousand GEL. As-of date is source review, not the unknown amendment adoption date.2010: $408.45 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average MoF annual execution report: actual-execution total for ministry code 29 00, including any externally financed execution included by the source. Original unit: thousand GEL. This preserves the contemporaneous annual-report value; later budget laws sometimes restate historical comparatives. Ministry coverage is not constant over time and is not the functional-defence or SIPRI definition. As-of date is the source review date; the original report publication day was not established.2011: $391.34 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 17, 2010. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2011 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2011: $422 Mn. Revised. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average Year-end approved ministry plan as reported in the MoF annual execution table, after changes to the original allocation. It is entered as revised, not as the initial approval. The separately reported administrative adjusted plan is 728.4853 million GEL; that figure is retained in the evidence ledger and is not substituted for this statutory plan. Original unit: thousand GEL. As-of date is source review, not the unknown amendment adoption date.2011: $431.91 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average MoF annual execution report: actual-execution total for ministry code 29 00, including any externally financed execution included by the source. Original unit: thousand GEL. This preserves the contemporaneous annual-report value; later budget laws sometimes restate historical comparatives. Ministry coverage is not constant over time and is not the functional-defence or SIPRI definition. As-of date is the source review date; the original report publication day was not established.2012: $409.2 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 9, 2011. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2012 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2012: $442.45 Mn. Revised. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average Year-end approved ministry plan as reported in the MoF annual execution table, after changes to the original allocation. It is entered as revised, not as the initial approval. The separately reported administrative adjusted plan is 735.4886 million GEL; that figure is retained in the evidence ledger and is not substituted for this statutory plan. Original unit: thousand GEL. As-of date is source review, not the unknown amendment adoption date.2012: $444.95 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average MoF annual execution report: actual-execution total for ministry code 29 00, including any externally financed execution included by the source. Original unit: thousand GEL. This preserves the contemporaneous annual-report value; later budget laws sometimes restate historical comparatives. Ministry coverage is not constant over time and is not the functional-defence or SIPRI definition. As-of date is the source review date; the original report publication day was not established.2013: $396.78 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 20, 2012. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2013 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2013: $397.46 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average MoF annual execution report: actual-execution total for ministry code 29 00, including any externally financed execution included by the source. Original unit: thousand GEL. This preserves the contemporaneous annual-report value; later budget laws sometimes restate historical comparatives. Ministry coverage is not constant over time and is not the functional-defence or SIPRI definition. As-of date is the source review date; the original report publication day was not established.2014: $373.79 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 11, 2013. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2014 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2014: $379.06 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average MoF annual execution report: actual-execution total for ministry code 29 00, including any externally financed execution included by the source. Original unit: thousand GEL. This preserves the contemporaneous annual-report value; later budget laws sometimes restate historical comparatives. Ministry coverage is not constant over time and is not the functional-defence or SIPRI definition. As-of date is the source review date; the original report publication day was not established.20152015: $282.02 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 12, 2014. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2015 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2015: $294.06 Mn. Revised. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average Year-end approved ministry plan as reported in the MoF annual execution table, after changes to the original allocation. It is entered as revised, not as the initial approval. The separately reported administrative adjusted plan is 655.4331 million GEL; that figure is retained in the evidence ledger and is not substituted for this statutory plan. Original unit: thousand GEL. As-of date is source review, not the unknown amendment adoption date.2015: $299.51 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average MoF annual execution report: actual-execution total for ministry code 29 00, including any externally financed execution included by the source. Original unit: thousand GEL. This preserves the contemporaneous annual-report value; later budget laws sometimes restate historical comparatives. Ministry coverage is not constant over time and is not the functional-defence or SIPRI definition. As-of date is the source review date; the original report publication day was not established.2016: $283.09 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 11, 2015. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2016 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2016: $317.06 Mn. Revised. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average Year-end approved ministry plan as reported in the MoF annual execution table, after changes to the original allocation. It is entered as revised, not as the initial approval. The separately reported administrative adjusted plan is 743.8934 million GEL; that figure is retained in the evidence ledger and is not substituted for this statutory plan. Original unit: thousand GEL. As-of date is source review, not the unknown amendment adoption date.2016: $315.19 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average MoF annual execution report: actual-execution total for ministry code 29 00, including any externally financed execution included by the source. Original unit: thousand GEL. This preserves the contemporaneous annual-report value; later budget laws sometimes restate historical comparatives. Ministry coverage is not constant over time and is not the functional-defence or SIPRI definition. As-of date is the source review date; the original report publication day was not established.2017: $298.06 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 14, 2016. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2017 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2017: $307.07 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average MoF annual execution report: actual-execution total for ministry code 29 00, including any externally financed execution included by the source. Original unit: thousand GEL. This preserves the contemporaneous annual-report value; later budget laws sometimes restate historical comparatives. Ministry coverage is not constant over time and is not the functional-defence or SIPRI definition. As-of date is the source review date; the original report publication day was not established.2018: $316.48 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 13, 2017. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2018 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2018: $318.45 Mn. Revised. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average Year-end approved ministry plan as reported in the MoF annual execution table, after changes to the original allocation. It is entered as revised, not as the initial approval. The separately reported administrative adjusted plan is 808.2596 million GEL; that figure is retained in the evidence ledger and is not substituted for this statutory plan. Original unit: thousand GEL. As-of date is source review, not the unknown amendment adoption date.2018: $321.5 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average MoF annual execution report: actual-execution total for ministry code 29 00, including any externally financed execution included by the source. Original unit: thousand GEL. This preserves the contemporaneous annual-report value; later budget laws sometimes restate historical comparatives. Ministry coverage is not constant over time and is not the functional-defence or SIPRI definition. As-of date is the source review date; the original report publication day was not established.2019: $310.48 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 13, 2018. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2019 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2019: $296.29 Mn. Revised. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average Year-end approved ministry plan as reported in the MoF annual execution table, after changes to the original allocation. It is entered as revised, not as the initial approval. The separately reported administrative adjusted plan is 835.4597 million GEL; that figure is retained in the evidence ledger and is not substituted for this statutory plan. Original unit: thousand GEL. As-of date is source review, not the unknown amendment adoption date.2019: $291.99 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average MoF annual execution report: actual-execution total for ministry code 29 00, including any externally financed execution included by the source. Original unit: thousand GEL. This preserves the contemporaneous annual-report value; later budget laws sometimes restate historical comparatives. Ministry coverage is not constant over time and is not the functional-defence or SIPRI definition. As-of date is the source review date; the original report publication day was not established.20202020: $283.04 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 10, 2019. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2020 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2020: $258.92 Mn. Revised. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average Year-end approved ministry plan as reported in the MoF annual execution table, after changes to the original allocation. It is entered as revised, not as the initial approval. The separately reported administrative adjusted plan is 818.0000 million GEL; that figure is retained in the evidence ledger and is not substituted for this statutory plan. Original unit: thousand GEL. As-of date is source review, not the unknown amendment adoption date.2020: $270.94 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average MoF annual execution report: actual-execution total for ministry code 29 00, including any externally financed execution included by the source. Original unit: thousand GEL. This preserves the contemporaneous annual-report value; later budget laws sometimes restate historical comparatives. Ministry coverage is not constant over time and is not the functional-defence or SIPRI definition. As-of date is the source review date; the original report publication day was not established.2021: $279.36 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 29, 2020. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2021 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2021: $307.3 Mn. Revised. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average Year-end approved ministry plan as reported in the MoF annual execution table, after changes to the original allocation. It is entered as revised, not as the initial approval. The separately reported administrative adjusted plan is 991.4231 million GEL; that figure is retained in the evidence ledger and is not substituted for this statutory plan. Original unit: thousand GEL. As-of date is source review, not the unknown amendment adoption date.2021: $305.36 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average MoF annual execution report: actual-execution total for ministry code 29 00, including any externally financed execution included by the source. Original unit: thousand GEL. This preserves the contemporaneous annual-report value; later budget laws sometimes restate historical comparatives. Ministry coverage is not constant over time and is not the functional-defence or SIPRI definition. As-of date is the source review date; the original report publication day was not established.2022: $343.74 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 17, 2021. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2022 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2022: $371.17 Mn. Revised. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average Year-end approved ministry plan as reported in the MoF annual execution table, after changes to the original allocation. It is entered as revised, not as the initial approval. The separately reported administrative adjusted plan is 1,084.2939 million GEL; that figure is retained in the evidence ledger and is not substituted for this statutory plan. Original unit: thousand GEL. As-of date is source review, not the unknown amendment adoption date.2022: $373.55 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average MoF annual execution report: actual-execution total for ministry code 29 00, including any externally financed execution included by the source. Original unit: thousand GEL. This preserves the contemporaneous annual-report value; later budget laws sometimes restate historical comparatives. Ministry coverage is not constant over time and is not the functional-defence or SIPRI definition. As-of date is the source review date; the original report publication day was not established.2023: $479.45 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 15, 2022. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2023 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2023: $483.26 Mn. Revised. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average Year-end approved ministry plan as reported in the MoF annual execution table, after changes to the original allocation. It is entered as revised, not as the initial approval. The separately reported administrative adjusted plan is 1,270.0000 million GEL; that figure is retained in the evidence ledger and is not substituted for this statutory plan. Original unit: thousand GEL. As-of date is source review, not the unknown amendment adoption date.2023: $484.86 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · programme 29 00. As of December 10, 2024. Annual average2024: $507.23 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of December 15, 2023. Annual average Initial ministry allocation in the original 2024 state-budget law. Original unit: thousand GEL; the total includes any budget funds, grants and credits shown in this row. The date is the law date, not an execution date. Ministry coverage follows this law; this is not the functional-defence or SIPRI series.2024: $584.42 Mn. Revised. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average Year-end approved ministry plan as reported in the MoF annual execution table, after changes to the original allocation. It is entered as revised, not as the initial approval. The separately reported administrative adjusted plan is 1,590.0000 million GEL; that figure is retained in the evidence ledger and is not substituted for this statutory plan. Original unit: thousand GEL. As-of date is source review, not the unknown amendment adoption date.2024: $584.94 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · programme 29 00. As of December 10, 2025. Annual average2025: $630.77 Mn. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · programme 29 00. As of December 10, 2024. Annual average2025: $670.88 Mn. Revised. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average Year-end approved ministry plan as reported in the MoF annual execution table, after changes to the original allocation. It is entered as revised, not as the initial approval. The separately reported administrative adjusted plan is 1,840.5858 million GEL; that figure is retained in the evidence ledger and is not substituted for this statutory plan. Original unit: thousand GEL. As-of date is source review, not the unknown amendment adoption date.2025: $671.35 Mn. Reported execution. Ministry of Defence · organisational code 29 00. As of November 1, 2026. Annual average MoF annual execution report: actual-execution total for ministry code 29 00, including any externally financed execution included by the source. Original unit: thousand GEL. This preserves the contemporaneous annual-report value; later budget laws sometimes restate historical comparatives. Ministry coverage is not constant over time and is not the functional-defence or SIPRI definition. As-of date is the source review date; the original report publication day was not established.20262026: $711.12 Mn*. Initial approved budget. Ministry of Defence · programme 29 00. As of December 10, 2025. Year-to-date average · provisional

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Ministry of Defence · organisational budgetSeparate scopes; these series must not be added together.

Ministry only · historical coverage changes. The 2004 outturn comes from a draft government account; the 2005 outturn is reported in the original 2007 law.

* 2026 uses the available year-to-date average; the full-year average is not yet available.

58 observations · open records and sources

Annual indicators

Military & paramilitary personnel · IISS

1993–2020
26,000Latest: 2020 · Estimate
People
Military & paramilitary personnel · IISS · 1993–2020Historical active-duty armed-forces and qualifying paramilitary personnel, excluding reservists, from IISS The Military Balance as distributed by the World Bank. The indicator combines regular and paramilitary forces and uses estimates where exact numbers are unavailable. It does not measure readiness, mobilised strength or current force capability. Empty years have no included observation. Click a bar for the figure and its source. 020K40K1993: 25,000 · Estimate19931994: 7,000 · Estimate1995: 14,000 · Estimate1996: 15,000 · Estimate1997: 39,200 · Estimate1998: 39,200 · Estimate1999: 32,800 · Estimate2000: 33,400 · Estimate20002001: 28,500 · Estimate2002: 29,200 · Estimate2003: 29,200 · Estimate2004: 22,000 · Estimate2005: 23,000 · Estimate2006: 33,000 · Estimate2007: 33,000 · Estimate2008: 33,000 · Estimate2009: 32,355 · Estimate2010: 32,355 · Estimate20102011: 32,350 · Estimate2012: 32,350 · Estimate2013: 32,350 · Estimate2014: 32,350 · Estimate2015: 26,050 · Estimate2016: 26,050 · Estimate2017: 26,000 · Estimate2018: 25,650 · Estimate2019: 26,000 · Estimate2020: 26,000 · Estimate2020

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Regular and qualifying paramilitary personnel. Reserves excluded.

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Historical active-duty armed-forces and qualifying paramilitary personnel, excluding reservists, from IISS The Military Balance as distributed by the World Bank. The indicator combines regular and paramilitary forces and uses estimates where exact numbers are unavailable. It does not measure readiness, mobilised strength or current force capability.

Historical estimates · latest observation 2020. No later headcount is inferred. Large year-to-year changes are retained as published, without attributing a cause.

28 annual observations

Data and sources

Military expenditure · share of GDP

1996–2025
1.75%Latest: 2025 · Estimate
%
Military expenditure · share of GDP · 1996–2025SIPRI military expenditure divided by GDP for the same calendar year. Percentages are taken from the published Share of GDP sheet; these are resource-burden indicators, not military capability. Empty years have no included observation. Click a bar for the figure and its source. 05101996: 2.21% · Estimate19961997: 1.25% · Estimate1998: 1.14% · Estimate1999: 0.92% · Estimate2000: 0.62% · Estimate2001: 0.74% · Estimate2002: 1% · Estimate2003: 1.07% · Estimate2004: 1.37% · Estimate2005: 3.34% · Estimate2006: 5.22% · Estimate2007: 9.16% · Estimate2008: 8.52% · Estimate2009: 5.61% · Estimate2010: 3.65% · Estimate20102011: 3.03% · Estimate2012: 2.91% · Estimate2013: 2.52% · Estimate2014: 2.31% · Estimate2015: 1.97% · Estimate2016: 2.04% · Estimate2017: 1.94% · Estimate2018: 1.86% · Estimate2019: 1.76% · Estimate2020: 1.79% · Estimate2021: 1.59% · Estimate2022: 1.61% · Estimate2023: 1.65% · Estimate2024: 1.59% · Estimate2025: 1.75% · Estimate2025

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SIPRI estimates, including qualifying paramilitary expenditure. Not ministry-only accounts.

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SIPRI military expenditure divided by GDP for the same calendar year. Percentages are taken from the published Share of GDP sheet; these are resource-burden indicators, not military capability.

Adopted-budget basis · military pensions excluded. SIPRI warns that 2003 may understate spending. These are not final expenditure accounts.

30 annual observations

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Recorded activity

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Equipment & procurement

44 records
Latest recorded year: 20231 record
Source records by year1997–2023
Equipment & procurement · 1997–2023Counts of included source records by year and recorded implementation stage. Each coloured bar segment opens only its matching records. Gaps do not establish inactivity.0471997: 1 · Reported19971999: 1 · Reported2000: 1 · Reported20002001: 1 · Reported2003: 1 · Reported2004: 4 · Reported2005: 2 · Reported20052006: 5 · Reported2007: 7 · Reported2008: 3 · Reported2009: 2 · Reported20102011: 1 · Reported2012: 1 · Reported2013: 1 · Reported20152016: 1 · Reported2017: 1 · Reported2017: 1 · Approved2018: 1 · Reported2018: 1 · Delivery reported2018: 1 · Contracted2019: 2 · Reported2019: 1 · Proposed2020: 1 · Reported20202021: 1 · Approved2022: 1 · Delivery reported2023: 1 · Delivery reported2023

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37 Reported3 Delivery reported2 Approved1 Contracted1 Proposed

Forces & reform

38 records
Latest recorded year: 20262 records
Source records by year1991–2026
Forces & reform · 1991–2026Counts of included source records by year and recorded implementation stage. Each coloured bar segment opens only its matching records. Gaps do not establish inactivity.0241991: 1 · Adopted1991: 1 · Reported19911993: 1 · Established19951999: 1 · Adopted2000: 1 · Adopted20002005: 2 · Adopted20052007: 1 · Completion reported2009: 1 · Completion reported2010: 2 · Established20102011: 1 · Adopted2012: 1 · Completion reported2013: 1 · Established2014: 2 · Adopted2014: 1 · Completion reported2015: 1 · Established20152016: 1 · Established2017: 1 · Adopted2018: 2 · Established2019: 1 · Reported20202021: 1 · Adopted2021: 1 · Reported2022: 2 · Reported2022: 1 · Completion reported2022: 1 · Announced2023: 1 · Adopted2023: 1 · Reported2024: 2 · Reported2025: 1 · Reported2025: 1 · Completion reported2025: 1 · In force2026: 1 · Reported2026: 1 · Completion reported2026

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11 Adopted10 Reported8 Established7 Completion reported1 Announced1 In force

Defence industry

6 records
Latest recorded year: 20223 records
Source records by year2005–2022
Defence industry · 2005–2022Counts of included source records by year and recorded implementation stage. Each coloured bar segment opens only its matching records. Gaps do not establish inactivity.0232005: 1 · Established20052010: 1 · Adopted20102013: 1 · Adopted20152022: 2 · Reported2022: 1 · Contracted2022

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2 Adopted2 Reported1 Contracted1 Established

Defence partnerships

54 records
Latest recorded year: 20261 record
Source records by year1992–2026
Defence partnerships · 1992–2026Counts of included source records by year and recorded implementation stage. Each coloured bar segment opens only its matching records. Gaps do not establish inactivity.0241992: 1 · Reported19921994: 2 · Signed1995: 1 · Signed19951997: 1 · Established1997: 1 · In force1998: 1 · Established1999: 2 · Reported20002001: 1 · Reported2002: 1 · Reported2002: 1 · Established2004: 1 · Reported2004: 1 · Adopted2005: 1 · Signed2005: 1 · Established2005: 1 · In force20052006: 1 · Adopted2007: 1 · Reported2008: 1 · Established2008: 2 · Adopted2008: 1 · Completion reported2009: 1 · Signed2009: 1 · Established2010: 1 · Established20102013: 1 · Reported2013: 2 · Signed2014: 1 · Reported2014: 1 · Established2014: 1 · Adopted2015: 2 · Reported20152016: 1 · Reported2016: 1 · Signed2016: 1 · Adopted2019: 1 · Signed2019: 1 · Adopted2020: 1 · Signed2020: 1 · Adopted20202021: 1 · Signed2021: 1 · Established2021: 1 · Approved2022: 1 · Signed2022: 2 · Approved2023: 2 · Approved2024: 3 · Announced2025: 1 · Reported2026: 1 · Reported2026

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14 Reported12 Signed9 Established8 Adopted5 Approved3 Announced2 In force1 Completion reported
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147 development records30 SIPRI annual observations110 additional indicator observationsSource records (177)

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