Kuwait vs Sweden: Military spending

Kuwait

9.79 billion constant 2022 US$

in 2023

Sweden

9.90 billion constant 2022 US$

in 2023

Kuwait rank

33rd

Sweden rank

32nd

Military spending over time

Kuwait
Sweden

How they compare

Sweden currently reports 9.90 billion constant 2022 US$ against 9.79 billion constant 2022 US$ in Kuwait, a difference of 109.82 million constant 2022 US$.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 63 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Sweden ahead.

Kuwait ranks 33rd and Sweden ranks 32nd of 172 countries.

Individual pages

Military spending in Kuwait
Military spending in Sweden
Full country ranking

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: 07 August 2026

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.