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Country military expenditure

83.2 USD billion · Saudi Arabia military expenditure, 2025 (SIPRI estimate)

current · reviewed as of June 5, 2026
Value83.2 USD billion
PeriodSaudi Arabia military expenditure, 2025 (SIPRI estimate)
As ofDecember 31, 2025
Last reviewedJune 5, 2026
Confidencehigh
Data modelive · source-linked
Citation readinessmedium readiness

Note

SIPRI estimate of Saudi Arabia's military expenditure in 2025: about US$83.2 billion (a 1.4% real-terms rise). An estimate, manually maintained from SIPRI's reporting; not real-time and not a causal attribution.

Version history

This observation is byte-present in 1 frozen dataset version, from v1.187.0 to v1.187.0. Appearances are derived from committed frozen payloads only — not fabricated for versions that predate the full-payload store.

Full record history: records/observation--obs-defense-saudi-2025/data.json · per-version field diffs: /changes/compare.

Relationships & machine-readable

Indicator JSON (with a relationship graph): indicators/obs-defense-saudi-2025/data.json · source page: SIPRI — Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2025 · per-record provenance.

How to cite

Country military expenditure: 83.2 USD billion (Saudi Arabia military expenditure, 2025 (SIPRI estimate)), Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, via Warconomy. https://warconomy.com/indicators/obs-defense-saudi-2025. Source-linked, manually maintained; not real-time.

Machine-readable: data.json · source registry · full page.