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Kuwait vs Libya: Military spending per armed forces personnel

Kuwait
318,743 constant 2024 US$
in 2020
Libya
336,927 constant 2024 US$
in 2013
Kuwait rank
14th
Libya rank
11th

Military spending per armed forces personnel over time

  • Kuwait
  • Libya
01.0M2.0M3.0M198520022020

How they compare

Libya currently reports 336,927 constant 2024 US$ against 318,743 constant 2024 US$ in Kuwait, a difference of 18,184 constant 2024 US$.

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

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

Kuwait ranks 14th and Libya ranks 11th of 160 countries.

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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.