Kazakhstan
Defence spending, forces, equipment, industry and partnerships. Explore the charts, then open the records and sources.
Annual spending
USD · current pricesDifferent scopes. Compare these series; do not add them.
MoD programmes · Defence functional group
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Coverage and method
MoD programmes · Defence functional groupSeparate scopes; these series must not be added together.
Coverage changes in 2019 and 2025–2026. Later 2025 plans and execution include transferred state defence orders; growth across these breaks is not like-for-like. Administrative plans remain separate from enacted revisions.
* 2026 uses the available year-to-date average; the full-year average is not yet available.
69 observations · open records and sourcesAnnual indicators
Military & paramilitary personnel · IISS
1993–2020Hover for values. Use ← → between bars, Enter for the source.
Regular and qualifying paramilitary personnel. Reserves excluded.
Coverage and method
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
Military expenditure · share of GDP
1993–2025SIPRI estimates, including qualifying paramilitary expenditure. Not ministry-only accounts.
Coverage and method
SIPRI military expenditure divided by GDP for the same calendar year. Values are from the published Share of GDP sheet and are multiplied by 100 to display percentages. This is a resource-burden indicator, not military capability.
SIPRI military-expenditure series · military pensions excluded. The scope differs from the national ministry-programme budget. The 1993 and 1994 estimates are marked highly uncertain.
33 annual observations
Kazakhstan Engineering - production value
2009–2014Hover for values. Use ← → between bars, Enter for the source.
Coverage and method
Reported value of production across all businesses in the Kazakhstan Engineering holding, from its 2014 management report. Includes civilian, special and dual-use production; this is not consolidated sales revenue or a count of weapons. Published rounded billion-KZT values are converted to nominal USD.
Historical Kazakhstan Engineering group figures, including civilian and dual-use businesses. Changing company coverage; not national arms output or current capacity. USD uses each year's published NBK average.
6 annual observations
Recorded activity
Dated developments by topic. Open a chart for the evidence.
Equipment & procurement
47 recordsHover for counts. Select a bar or stage for matching records. ← → between bars.
Forces & reform
38 recordsHover for counts. Select a bar or stage for matching records. ← → between bars.
Defence industry
14 recordsHover for counts. Select a bar or stage for matching records. ← → between bars.
Defence partnerships
28 recordsHover for counts. Select a bar or stage for matching records. ← → between bars.
About these records
Charts show included source records, not equipment inventories or military strength. Open a dashboard for the dated evidence.