Statizoid

Canada vs Libya: Military spending per armed forces personnel

Canada
374,715 constant 2024 US$
in 2020
Libya
336,927 constant 2024 US$
in 2013
Canada rank
8th
Libya rank
11th

Military spending per armed forces personnel over time

  • Canada
  • Libya
0100.0k200.0k300.0k400.0k198520022020

How they compare

Canada currently reports 374,715 constant 2024 US$ against 336,927 constant 2024 US$ in Libya, a difference of 37,788 constant 2024 US$.

That makes Canada's figure about 1.1 times Libya's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 14 shared years of data; in 1997 it was Canada ahead.

Canada ranks 8th and Libya ranks 11th of 160 countries.

Individual pages

About this data

Indicator
Military spending per armed forces personnel
Unit
constant 2024 US$
Source
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (2026); The Military Balance - International Institute for Strategic Studies, via World Bank (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
160 places, 4,610 data points, 1985–2020
Last refreshed

Total military expenditure divided by armed forces personnel. 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.