Statizoid

Egypt vs Libya: Military spending

Egypt
4.83 billion constant 2022 US$
in 2023
Libya
4.78 billion constant 2022 US$
in 2016
Egypt rank
50th
Libya rank
51st

Military spending over time

  • Egypt
  • Libya
02.5B5.0B7.5B10.0B185519392023

How they compare

Egypt currently reports 4.83 billion constant 2022 US$ against 4.78 billion constant 2022 US$ in Libya, a difference of 45.10 million constant 2022 US$.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 66 shared years of data; in 1951 it was Egypt ahead.

Egypt ranks 50th and Libya ranks 51st of 172 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Military spending
Unit
constant 2022 US$
Source
Barnum et al. - Global Military Spending Dataset (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
172 places, 15,402 data points, 1816–2023
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This data is expressed in US dollars. It is adjusted for inflation but does not account for differences in the cost of living between countries.