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Lesotho vs Suriname: Military spending

Lesotho
44.77 million constant 2022 US$
in 2023
Suriname
60.49 million constant 2022 US$
in 2016
Lesotho rank
159th
Suriname rank
156th

Military spending over time

  • Lesotho
  • Suriname
050.0M100.0M150.0M196619942023

How they compare

Suriname currently reports 60.49 million constant 2022 US$ against 44.77 million constant 2022 US$ in Lesotho, a difference of 15.72 million constant 2022 US$.

That makes Suriname's figure about 1.4 times Lesotho's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 42 shared years of data; in 1975 it was Suriname ahead.

Lesotho ranks 159th and Suriname ranks 156th 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.