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Kenya vs Sri Lanka: Military spending

Kenya
1.40 billion constant 2022 US$
in 2023
Sri Lanka
1.52 billion constant 2022 US$
in 2023
Kenya rank
79th
Sri Lanka rank
76th

Military spending over time

  • Kenya
  • Sri Lanka
0500.0M1.0B1.5B2.0B194819852023

How they compare

Sri Lanka currently reports 1.52 billion constant 2022 US$ against 1.40 billion constant 2022 US$ in Kenya, a difference of 123.51 million constant 2022 US$.

That makes Sri Lanka's figure about 1.1 times Kenya's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 61 shared years of data; in 1963 it was Sri Lanka ahead.

Kenya ranks 79th and Sri Lanka ranks 76th 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
Last refreshed

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.